Week 10: Final update, UI changes

Hello everyone!

As my final project is overall complete, this will be some final updates regarding the ant simulation.

Changes:

The final changes I’ve made to this project are all mostly UI changes.

First of all, I’ve finally updated my spider model from a spiky ball to an actual spider (made using microsoft paint):

Note, the spider is still purple, but only for higher contrast.

I’ve also made my own ant sprite (made using canva).

Now both of these sprites are relatively crude, but this is fine, since most of the simulations (shown later) are observed at a distance, where a lot of fine details don’t matter as much.

Huge shoutout to my sister who also remade the background and obstacles. We’ve now transformed from the simple walls to a far more visually appealing setting. Below is a video showcasing the basic pheromone tracking feature in the new environment.

So as shown in the video, the UI features are now a lot better.

Download instructions:

Again, my full project is available to download at: https://github.com/chengzansong/Ants_project

I’ve left detailed instructions there, but for anyone who may suffer from issues downloading the project, feel free to reach out and ask me at lukesong2008@gmail.com! I’m happy to answer any questions.

Important side note: if you download and extract the project, you may end up with a larger Ant_project folder that contains another Ant_project folder that contains unity assets and whatnot. When that happens, remove the smaller Ant_project folder from the larger folder. (Essentially the folder uploaded to unity should directly contain assets/scripts)

Final future plans:

This project as a whole is complete, and is already up on github. If there’s anything I would ever change about this project, it’d be about the possibility of embedding it directly onto my personal website (when I actually make one).

With that aside, thank you all so much for following along this project!