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This especially affects conifers, like pines and spruces. They have shorter roots than broadleaf trees, so they can’t get to the water that is stored in the deeper in the earth. | This especially affects conifers, like pines and spruces. They have shorter roots than broadleaf trees, so they can’t get to the water that is stored in the deeper in the earth. | ||
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Video of my project:
Idea and Inspiration:
With this Unity experience I want to broach the issue of the forests in our world steadily dying. This happens mainly because of climate change. The temperature rises and rain in the summer nowadays is a rarity. The tree- and plant life struggle to stay alive since they can barely absorb any water and the heat from the sun dry them out. A branch can more easily break of from a dried-out tree and injure a person/animal standing below it. Trees especially become susceptible to catching fire as well as getting infested with bark-beetle. These insects use the trees as a living space and nesting ground. They drill into the wood of the trees, which in turn severely damages or even kills the infected plants. This especially affects conifers, like pines and spruces. They have shorter roots than broadleaf trees, so they can’t get to the water that is stored in the deeper in the earth.
reference pictures:
reference links:
https://www.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute/massnahmen-gegen-waldsterben-was-wirklich-sinnvoll-ist-100.html
You can probably think of the reasons yourself why our forests gradually dying is a big problem. By creating this project I want to bring more awareness to this issue.
Description:
Now I want to describe what I actually made in Unity. I created a coniferous forest that you can walk through in a first-person perspective. The atmosphere and lighting are made to resemble a hot sunny day. You start in a bedroom but when you walk out of the rooms door you suddenly find yourself teleported to a beautiful forest. You hear birds chirping and wind blowing through the trees leaves. However, after walking for a while you experience a sudden shift in your surroundings. You come to an artificial clearing, where the freshly chopped logs of the trees still lie. And what you see behind the clearing is quite alarmingly. The forest that seemed so alive before is now replaced with dead trees. The lush and green plant life still exists behind you but for how long? Soon it will also die but is there a way to prevent that?
During your exploration of the forest, you can find white, glowing orbs scattered around the map. When you walk into these orbs an audio track will start playing. The tracks talk about different aspects of the forest declining, in more detail and what methods are used to work against this problem. In close proximity the orbs are video planes. They show a loop of a video that show corresponding imagery to what you can hear from the orb nearby.
Creation process:
Here are the links to the videos I used the sound and imagery of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQK3QKa6TKU&t=46s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KzFe50RQkQ&t=14s
Here are the links to the videos I searched out and used in my Unity project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTnUFN9cnGE&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVV3q9txlyM&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DKEdXurJjc&feature=emb_logo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TiBPHQ4UGs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ANSUMPeXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m3EjS7vXyg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7XaGcdZ_5E
Like I said before with my small project I want to bring more awareness to this issue and I hope by you reading this documentation and watching the video of my project I achieved my goal.