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NPC Modeling of Plants for Farm Simulation Game

농장 시뮬레이션을 위한 농작물 NPC 모델링

  • 박상현 (순천대학교 멀티미디어공학과)
  • Received : 2020.08.12
  • Accepted : 2020.10.15
  • Published : 2020.10.31
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Abstract

There are many studies to incorporate virtual reality technology into agricultural education. Interest in virtual reality is increasing not only for direct education such as agricultural machinery education but also for indirect education using games. A key technology in virtual reality is to model objects to feel as real as they are. Plants grown on a farm are equally affected by the environment of the farm. Plants also have their independent characteristics. In this paper, we propose a method to model plants in three dimensions in NPC form by reflecting these characteristics. The proposed method implements how individual plants reflect common weather and farm characteristics, and their unique characteristics. Implementation results show that the proposed method is simple but expresses the plants very realistically.

가상현실 기술을 농업 기술 교육에 접목하려는 많은 노력이 이루어지고 있으며, 농기계 교육과 같은 직접적인 교육뿐만 아니라 게임을 이용한 간접 교육에도 관심이 증가하고 있다. 가상현실에서 핵심적인 기술은 사용자가 실제와 같이 느낄 수 있게 대상을 모델링하는 것이다. 농장에서 재배하는 농작물은 농장의 환경에 따라 동일한 영향을 받는다. 또한, 농작물은 각각 독립적인 특성도 가지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 농작물 모델링의 이러한 특성을 반영하여 NPC 형태로 모델링하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법에서는 개별 농작물이 날씨와 농장의 특성을 반영하는 방법과 독립적인 특성을 반영하는 방법을 구현한다. 구현 결과는 제안하는 방법이 간단한 알고리즘을 사용하지만 농작물을 매우 사실적으로 표현하는 것을 보여준다.

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