Virtual World Design

<p><em>Learn How to Create Immersive Virtual Environments</em></p><p>Written by an award-winning designer with 20 years of experience designing virtual environments for television and online communities <strong>Virtual World Design</strong> explores the intertwining disciplines of 2D graphics 3D models lighting sound and storytelling. It illustrates how these disciplines come together <i>by design</i> in the creation of an accessible virtual environment for teaching research and entertainment. The book gives anyone the tools and techniques to design virtual environments that support their message and are accessible by all.</p><p>With 200 illustrations and 12 step-by-step projects the book delivers hours of creative challenges for people working in public virtual worlds or on private grids. Using the modular components available for download on the author’s website readers learn by building such things as a virtual classroom an all-access terrain and a sound-based game.</p><p>This book can be the foundation for class work in distance learning simulation and other learning technologies that use virtual environments. It shows both novices and advanced users how 3D composition color lighting and sound design are used in the creation of an immersive virtual environment.</p>