For the VR project developed for RASU JSC, we have created a 3D room of the UCP (unit control panel), filled with controls and a virtual guide character.

Customer's background

RASU Corporation is an integrator company in the field of Automated Process Control Systems (APCS).

Task

To recreate a nuclear power plant main control room with all the controls. Since the project will be reviewed by specialists in the nuclear power industry who have many times visited similar facilities, a very high-quality drawing and exact correspondence of all elements to the real ones was required.

To create an amiable guide character to accompany users and help in the virtual space.

What we have provided

• Carried out an in-depth analysis of the materials and drawings provided
• Created a prototype of the girl-guide, which satisfied the customer in terms of body build and appearance

• Made the design of a futuristic main control room
• Simulated a fully-featured room with control stands and workplaces installed as per their actual arrangement
• Textured the main control room with real images, providing space in the textures for a million dynamic elements to be changed during the virtual game

• Made a model of a girl-guide called Alva
• Textured Alva in workwear of RASU company
• Made rigging and skinning, including facial muscles for Alva
• Animated Alva in various states: Waiting, presentation, walking, excursion, and game accompaniment. Each state has several options of movements. Facial and mouth animation has been made as well.

Solution

Based on the available materials, our specialists have finished each object of the room equipment in exquisite details. The room itself was made in a futuristic design. In addition to the obligatory objects, it houses a plasma TV with a presentation of the RASU company, as well as showcases with logos of the project participants.

The most difficult part of the simulation was the virtual guiding character. Alva had to be not just a beautiful girl, but serious, personable and sweet. Modelers of the Ariseum company created it based on the best world experience in character art. Facial features, figures, gestures and behavior during the excursion were worked out in detail. The animators have created many states and movements of the character so that the user does not get bored. 

Result

Together with professional voice work, Alva’s character became a really living participant in the project. Visitors of the stand literally fell in love with it and asked the company's representatives about the possibility of downloading the presentation to their device or taking the disc to their homes. The project turned out to be realistic, memorable, and gained a lot of fans.

The ATOMEXPO exhibition was attended by 6000 participants from 65 countries. To visit the virtual main control room, a queue of people lined up at the stand. The guests of the exhibition curiously put on a helmet, looked at Alva, pressed virtual buttons to control the reactor and thanked the Ariseum team for the unique opportunity to take a tour of the nuclear power plant.