TorchBearer: Mérida
A multiplayer game for CMU's 270° CAVERN, where every player sees the world from their own view.
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The Mérida plaza, stretched across the CAVERN's 270° screen.
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The project
The CAVERN at CMU's ETC is a VR room with a 270° curved stereo screen. It could track one player and draw the world from that player's view. Anyone else had to stand close to them to see things right.
Team TorchBearer built a multi-perspective rendering technique that tracks several players at once. Each player sees objects from their own point of view, so people can move freely, hand objects to each other and look at the same thing from different sides. We made a game called Mérida to show it off.
My role
I was a 3D generalist on the team, working in Unity.
- Modeled, rigged and animated the pigeon
- Built the procedural ground texture and other shaders in Shader Graph
- Made the particle effects
- Modeled and animated the blooming flower
- Modeled the Sillas Confidentes, the classic Mérida love-seat chairs
- Modeled props like the ice cream, frisbee and flower cards
- Project
- ETC semester project, Spring 2026
- Platform
- CAVERN, 270° curved stereo 3D screen with head tracking for several players
- Engine
- Unity, Shader Graph
- My role
- 3D generalist
The pigeon
Modeled, rigged and animated by me.
Sillas Confidentes
Blooming flower
In the CAVERN
Two players hold the flower together and it bursts into bloom. Each one sees it from their own position, which is what multi-perspective rendering makes possible.
Stereo render
Playtest
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