Halloween 2021

Most of the recent Spacedock updates was in preparation for multiple Halloween 2021 photoshoots. This included creating a Spacedock office as seen in Star Trek: Lower Decks and updating the interior of Spacedock: center dock window details, wall windows/details, and floor details.

As a bit of a tribute to CAVE2 itself, the original concept image is framed on the left. On the top shelf is sort of the lineage of my work at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) with a model for each of the major hardware systems I worked on.

From left to right (top shelf): TacTile, OmegaDesk, CyberCommons, CyberCommons Touch Wall, and CAVE2.

On the bottom shelf is a spaceship lineage of the 3D models I've made over the years.

From left to right (bottom shelf): Saturn V, Space Shuttle, International Space Station, TOS Constitution, Refit Constitution, Excelsior.

As EVL's weekly Zoom meeting was just before Halloween 2021, I had intended to use CAVE2 as a real-time Zoom background for the meeting. Due to the brightness of LCD displays I had to lower the brightness of the entire scene so it wouldn't be overexposed on Zoom.

The meeting was cancelled, but I did record a test video. The idea was I would play the docking animation while I was giving my update on Zoom.

Development Log: 2021

 Finally going through and updating this blog with various archived progress from 2021. Updates were primarily focused on Spacedock.

September 28, 2021: 'Lower Decks' style Spacedock office

October 18, 2021: Interior details

October 18, 2021: 'Lower Decks' office

October 20, 2021: Runway and floor details

October 22, 2021: Additional floor details

October 27, 2021: Lower Decks office details and lighting

October 27, 2021: Spacedock wall lighting

October 28: 2021: Spacedock runway lighting and door animations