CAPE COD MEMORIES

An Exploration of Recreating Reality

This project recreates the vast sand dunes iconic to Cape Cod's beaches, inspired after my first trip to the northeast coast. A result of many different iterations, originally this project was simply the environment created from actual photos taken on location. Eventually, I felt this project needed an incentive of exploration and more interaction, so I added various memories you can remember when prompted. See if you can find all three!

(Use your mouse + WASD to look and move. Use ESCAPE to remove your cursor from the window.)

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DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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INSPIRATION

This project was based on the large, dry sand dunes of Cape Cod during the early spring. I knew it'd be a compelling environment to recreate in Unity, so I captured these reference photos to guide my development and remind myself how all of these pieces should work together.

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A large learning experience from this project was the development of my own textures to paint the world I was creating. All of the textures used to create this environment were from real photos I took on location. In addition, I generated normal maps for each of these textures, which in turn created realistic depth that was both dynamic and repeatable.

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