{"id":268,"date":"2025-10-24T21:16:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/?p=268"},"modified":"2025-11-14T15:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:03:21","slug":"week9-coming-back-from-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/week9-coming-back-from-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Week9: Coming Back from Break"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Tech Progress\uff1a<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Real-Life Demonstration of the Modules in Action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/realtimeDemo.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Zack from Brilliant Sole for updating the server, which now makes connecting the devices much faster and easier. We also continued implementing the new movement features. In addition, we are currently looking into a rendering issue that is causing high memory usage. We have already put some effort into optimization but haven\u2019t achieved the results we want yet, so we will keep working on improving performance next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Art progress\uff1a<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ascentWeek9-1024x681.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ascentWeek9-1024x681.png 1024w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ascentWeek9-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ascentWeek9-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ascentWeek9-1536x1021.png 1536w, https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ascentWeek9.png 1764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The art team mainly focused on refining the map this week, including improving terrain details and adjusting the visual composition. We also added more trees to the environment, applied several new textures, and updated parts of the scene layout. In addition, we extended our wind-driven leaf movement to the trees \u2014 previously it was only applied to the grass \u2014 to bring more life into the overall atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech Progress\uff1a Real-Life Demonstration of the Modules in Action Thanks to Zack from Brilliant Sole for updating the server, which now makes connecting the devices much faster and easier. We also continued implementing the new movement features. In addition, we are currently looking into a rendering issue that is causing high memory usage. We have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.etc.cmu.edu\/ascent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}