Content type

Provides information about content types.

Before starting a project, you can choose the type of content you want to create. There are three different content types available:

1. Metaverse: In this mode, the camera and avatar are set by default. The avatar uses the one set on the Redbrick website, and the camera is configured to always follow the avatar.

2. Game: In this mode, the avatar is optional. Users can decide whether to use an avatar and whether the camera should follow the avatar. This option offers high flexibility.

3. VR: This mode supports virtual reality. If you choose the Metaverse and enable VR, the VR camera will be linked to the avatar. In Game mode, the placement of the VR camera can be set according to the user’s preference.

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Metaverse

In order to get started with the metaverse, please select the metaverse option before creating a template.

This preset script creates an avatar, a camera, and attaches the camera to the avatar to enable a following effect.

const avatar = REDBRICK.AvatarManager.createDefaultAvatar();
const camera = WORLD.getObject("MainCamera");
const followingCamera = avatar.setFollowingCamera(camera);
avatar.setDefaultController();

Game

In the game template, there is no code that creates an avatar.

function Start() {
  //nothing
}

VR Option

You can toggle the “VR option” while creating a template in order to use it. This will automatically add additional code to PresetScript, so you don’t have to manually do so.

const avatar = REDBRICK.AvatarManager.createDefaultAvatar();
const camera = WORLD.getObject("MainCamera");
const followingCamera = avatar.setFollowingCamera(camera);
avatar.setDefaultController();
followingCamera.useVR({ VRObject: avatar }); //VR needs to have VRObject

Additionally, VR can be used with other VRObjects too.

const headOfSomething = WORLD.getObject("headOfSomething");
const camera = WORLD.getObject("cameraTitle");
camera.useVR({ VRObject: headOfSomething }); // now you can use VR without an avatar

If you choose a game mode and VR settings, the PresetScript might look like this. However, you can customize it as in the previous example (headOfSomething).

const camera = WORLD.getObject("MainCamera");
if (!camera) return;
const obj = new THREE.Object3D();
WORLD.add(obj);
obj.position.copy(camera.position);
camera.useVR({ VRObject: obj });