Blade Runner Inspired Office Build: Deckard's Apartment
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Thanks! I hope it turns out ok.
Quick side story, I've been playing around with these little NCF tag stickers that I bought from amazon.
They're stupid cheap and you can use them to do all kinds of things.
I know this is SUPER nerdy but I've been hiding these things all over my office; on, near, or under various items, photos, and props.
The office is turning into somewhat of an interactive tour haha! If you tap the sheet music on the piano, the sound system plays the Love Theme, and you can hear the ghostly echo of Rachel playing Deckard's grand.
If you tap the JW whiskey bottle, you get some melancholy synth jazz ala 'Blade Runner Blues' along with the sounds of rain, thunder in the distance, and the occasional spinner flying overhead.
Tap the control panel and you get the elevator lift sequence.
Tap the photo of Rachel as a child with her mother and you get the "hundred baby spiders" speech along with "Memories of Green"
It's becoming a whole mood! haha
keyser soze333
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Nice work mate! It should look awesome when it’s up.
LimeyBuilds
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"I've built in things you people wouldn't believe...'
Not yet, real life has been in the way for quite a while. It's the next/last big part of this project and I will be completely at the mercy of hdtheater's skill, experience, schedule, and motivation HAHA.Really nice workDid you tackled the doors...or it's coming later?
Yes! I'm having a blast with these little things.This certainly adds a brilliant interactive layer to your office! Any excuse to reminisce to “Memories of Green…” In these parts, nerdy = genius.
I made a new one last night.
Tap the origami unicorn and you hear an echoey "Too bad she won't live.... but then again who does?" and it fades into the end title score. So fun.
I need more ideas! I welcome any suggestions for automations/sound triggers.
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You calling me out Bro?!?
Got one!Beautiful transformations and great results
To steal Nick Daring's joke.
"It's artificial?"
"Of course it is.."
"must be expensive."
"NOT very... I'm Rachel"
For $50 this was the most realistic and properly sized one I could find and overall I'm very happy with it. The pot is cheap and inaccurate so I found a nicer one with the correct shape. Once it arrives, I'll repot it and clean it up.
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Agreed!
Here's a video demonstration of the NFC tags.
And here's what happens when you tap the whiskey glass. You can hear the rain and thunder (and occasional spinner) "outside". The effect is pretty neat in person. The rain starts trickling in about half way through. The speaker system is hidden in the ceiling tiles so it's a very ambient sound.
And here's what happens when you tap the whiskey glass. You can hear the rain and thunder (and occasional spinner) "outside". The effect is pretty neat in person. The rain starts trickling in about half way through. The speaker system is hidden in the ceiling tiles so it's a very ambient sound.
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LimeyBuilds
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Where did you manage to find the folding instruction for this unicorn? Everyo ne I have tried is not close to accurate. short thick neck, wrong body angle etc.
Trooper_trent - outstanding ambiance! So just to wrap my ahead around this: the NFC tags activate an audio file on your phone, which is blue-toothed to ceiling-tile speaker system. Is that correct?
RipleyL
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Reminds me of that BR9732 demo game from a few years back, where you could go through Deckard's apartment and interact with objects that had audio recordings. Very cool idea!
Now the question is, with all these awesome distractions all around your office, how are you going to get any work done?
Next is the light outside your window that will shine a beam of light at night through the blinds
With the soft woooosh sound!
I've got the woooosh sound down. Trying to figure out how to get the beams of light to shine through without pissing off my neighbors lol.
I'm also playing around with the idea of a mini "RCA" neon sign (LED rope) in my window behind the blinds.
NFC tags can be written to and/or read with small bits of information and they don't take batteries so they last forever. The phone has a built in reader. that's it. After that, it's just chaining together different aspects to get it to do what I want. I can have alexa play sounds, run various smart devices (plugs, lights, the blinds, switches, etc) and chain them together into various "routines" with the NFC tag being the trigger to run the routine.
So yeah it can just play a sound, but I also have one that turns the whole office on and starts the ambient sounds, one that resets everything back to "daylight mode", one that only turns on the accent lamps, one that plays spotify, etc. They're pretty handy and super cheap.
