A New University Navigation System
A Detailed and Accessible Interactive Campus Map
Empowering students to succeed, thrive, and persist throughout their academic journey by providing an innovative and interactive 3D campus map navigation system.
A Brief Demonstration On Navigation
Introduction
Our navigation system addresses the challenge of inadequate campus navigation by creating an interactive room-to-room navigation map for the Wright State University Dayton Campus. Our company, Generic Campus Tour Company (GCTC), is dedicated to the overall goal of utilizing the Godot game engine to build a fully fleshed out 3D map to provide the groundwork for the 3D campus navigation system. This project comes from the Intro To Software Engineering Spring 2025 course. The project given to us was described like this: "In this project you will create either a website or an app that provides a guided tour of the campus and shows buildings and locations of interest, such as the tunnel system. The application should provide details, such as what each building is for."" Our product will allow you to do three main things which are as follows.
- Enter in two locations and get the quickest route between them
- Upload your semester schedule and build the quickest route between each class
- Navigate through different parts of the 3D map to look at important university landmarks
Wright State's Current Navigation
It's inefficient!! Clearly, the fastest walking path between White Hall and Russ Engineering is the walkway that passes between the Neuroscience Building and lot 12. See dotted blue line in image. It also only allows for navigation between buildings.
How Do We Improve?
By using a game engine and a mesh that shows all applicable ways a user can navigate through the map, the game engine has a function that is able to calculate the fastest route between two points. Here's an example inside the Russ Engineering Building where you can navigate from Russ 222 to 216.
Other Functionalities
Besides being a navigation tool, the map is also meant to be an informational tool as well. Certain rooms and locations in the university will have 3D spheres you can click on that will display infromation about that room, building, etc.