A PLAY EXPERIENCE MAKER'S WORK LOG FOR FUTURE SELF©2001 – 2023 Kyle Li 李肅綱 All Rights Reserved.

After 11 years as an in-person, classroom-bond, hands-on, and expert-at-improvising type of teacher, I was forced to adapt online teaching because of COVID. In the beginning, I was very frustrated that I was not be able to create the same kind of learning engagement online than off-line. I soon realized that I shouldn’t compare them at all, because they are two very different learning spaces. Instead of taking it for granted, I started to look at online teaching as an pot-of-comfort-zone learning opportunity for myself.

A Digital Native’s Playset is a collection of Arduino and IoT enabled physical gadgets that enables users to enrich their virtual interactions with others. Kyle Li has been engaged with online learning as a teacher for the past three years. While it was an unexpected change in Kyle’s academic career, he was introduced to a new array of design opportunities when it comes to online and virtual communication. A Digital Native’s Playset is the result of Kyle’s attempt to push virtual interaction beyond keyboard and mouse.

Since August 2022, Ready Player Me no longer supports exporting avatars as FBX files. It’s still possible to convert a GLB avatar file to FBX manually using Blender.
https://docs.readyplayer.me/ready-player-me/integration-guides/unreal-sdk/blender-to-unreal-export

Export FBX from Blender

1. Download the avatar .glb file.
2. Open Blender on an empty scene.
3. Select File>Import>GLTF 2.0 and then select the .glb file you downloaded.
4. Wait for the import to complete and the model to appear in your Blender scene.
5. Select File/Export/FBX. The Blender File View window opens.
6. Notice the Operator Presets on the right.
7. Adjust them as shown in FBX Export Settings below.

This is super exciting!!

GoDice JavaScript API: https://github.com/ParticulaCode/GoDiceJavaScriptAPI
GoDice Unity Demo: https://github.com/ParticulaCode/GoDiceUnityDemo
Python API: https://github.com/ParticulaCode/GoDicePythonAPI