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CS 184 Final Project: Portals

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Oscar Chan | Raymond Chau | Daniel Molina | Ashley Zhang

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“Basically Budget Portals”

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Background and Intro

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  • Render the science fiction phenomena of portals.
  • Be able to view, through Portal A, the environment where Portal B is located from numerous angles.
  • Experiment with ray tracing and ray casting to see the details clearly in the portals
  • Examine object rendering with this “Portal view”

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Result

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Technical Approach and Implementation

  • Raycasting to determine location of the portals
  • View the opposite portal's perspective by displaying and continue ray tracing from one portal to the other via Shaders
  • Teleportation of the player using collisions
  • Recursive Portals via sub-renders
  • Materials Exploration

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More Results - Portal Particles

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More Results - Recursive Portals

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More Results - Portal Teleportation

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More Results - Special Materials and Shaders

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Conclusion

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Learned to:

  • Develop in Unity with version control
  • Utilize Software Engineering principles
  • Implement Unity compatible shaders
  • Implement portal placement, recursive rendering, and teleportation

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Questions & Answers