Intro

VTBT is a Unity 3D based project which allows the user to visit Dharahara in a game-environment. Seeking to re-create the experience of visiting Dharahara in a virtual environment after the 2015 Nepal earthquake, VTBT is a project born in calamity to inspire change. With VTBT, the developers believe that heritage can and should also be preserved virtually by creating and porting a game-environment, such as this, to other platforms such as AR, for the benefit of future generations.

The development of VTBT saw, primarily, the use of the following technologies:

  1. Unity 3D - Meshing, Rigging, Creation of game-environment
  2. Blender - Creating meshes and objects / structures
  3. Adobe Photoshop - Texturing, Image manipulation
  4. Monodevelop - C# Code editor, Collision testing, Writing scripts
  5. MakeHuman - Creating rigged humanoid models

Some other tools were also involved, which will not be mentioned for the sake of brevity and ease of general use.

Team

VTBT is a product of these awesome developers during the 4th Semester, Year-II, of their Bachelor’s course. It is part of their, CSC-254 Computer Graphics, semester project developed in 2015 and supervised by Er. Anil Sah at St. Xavier’s College, Maitighar, Kathmandu.

Download

With the download button given here, you can download the compiled version of the .exe application built for Windows 7. The application is fully functional for all x64 Windows based computers running Windows 7 or higher. It has been tested in the following environments: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit, Windows 10 64-bit. The application, in this case, refers to a beta-release and it supports various display resolutions during the initial startup.

The License also allows you to view, fork and modify the software. The project, built on/for Unity 5.0.0f4, is available on github. The author(s) assume no reponsibility, liability and/or support for any succesive version(s) of Unity that may depreciate various aspscts of the pre-compiled project. Ports to newer Unity version(s) are thereby welcome. To send a newer verison of this project, please fork and modify then send a pull request. If you’re confused, here are the steps. It is advisable to read the licensing and usage agreement fully before begining anything. Contributors are allowed to contact the author(s) regarding how they should proceed after creating their own version.

License

License and Terms of Use:

Virtual Tour of Bhimsen Tower
Copyright © 2015 Narayan Panthi, Siddhant Rimal, Sneha Prasai.

This material and all its subsidiaries are protected under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Use of external materials disclaimer:

  1. The iconic white dharahara logo is a modification of the original work at thenounproject.com. Dharahara logo and all associated original work is the property of Jason Dilworth released under CC-3.0
  2. This website is a modification of a hugo port of Dimensions, a fully responsive site template designed by HTML5 UP and released for free under the Creative Commons license.
  3. Dharahara background image used in this website remains the property of its respective owner(s). The author(s) do not claim ownership and is obtained “AS IS” from the public domain on the internet. Modification to the original work has been done.

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