Japanese Teahouse Relaxation Expereince - WIP coming soon

Experience the tranquillity of a Japanese tea house (Chashitsu).

From within the warmth and shelter of the tea house, you can relax to the sounds of gently boiling water, and the pitter patter of rain, all whilst overlooking the mysterious mountain lake.

Environment creation and art, sound design, shader setup, tea house, all 3d assests (excluding craig's) textures and trailer. By myslef Darryl Dempsey - http://darryldempsey.co.uk/

Many thanks to Craig Payne, for producing the utensils on the shelf, wall scroll, tatami mats, sunken hearth and stone steps.
http://craigpayne2011.wix.com/cjwpayne
https://www.artstation.com/artist/pat...

For this experience I used Unity 5 and it’s native VR support. For added immersion I used spatial audio (HRTF) via the Oculus spatializer plugin. Visually the scene makes use of PBR based shaders, including UBER - Standard Shader Ultra, for the addition of translucency (Shoji doors & paper lamps) and wet surfaces. The 3D models were created in Maya, whilst most textures were produced using Photoshop, Substance Painter, Designer and Bitmap2Material. Speed tree was also used to produce custom trees, however due to performance limitations these were later removed from the scene.

Future additions will include, a choice of environment, between a garden and a small lake surrounded by trees, including a boat you can float around in. Both are currently WIP, screenshots will be on website.

Music: DJ Donovan - Mar de China https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/amb...

A lot of research went in to the design of the tea house so it was as authentic as possible, here are some links explaining the rationale behind the architecture.

http://terebess.hu/tea/teakunyho.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chashitsu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_As...
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/indepth/cul...
https://woodsshop.com/Japanese/Japane...
https://woodsshop.com/Azumaya/12x-Ext...
http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/virtual/...
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/indepth/cul...
http://www.takyo-abeke.jp/english/?pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoin-z...