The Practical Value of Virtual Reality Technology in the Practical

Teaching Course of Art Design

Lin Song

Linyi Vocational College, Linyi City, Shandong Province, China

Keywords: Virtual Reality Technology, Art Design, Unity3D, Training System, ASP.NET.

Abstract: Facing the demand of building a high-quality practice teaching system for art design majors in colleges and

universities, and aiming at many shortcomings existing in the current practice teaching courses for art

design majors, this paper will take advantage of the application advantages of VR technology, 3D modeling

technology and visual interaction technology, take 3ds Max, Unity3D and other software programs as the

core to design the simulation practice of art design, and adopt ASP.NET framework to integrate and

package the system to form an art design practice teaching system. The system is presented by Web

application, and the overall design is completed according to MVC mode. The development and deployment

of each functional module will fully realize the virtual reproduction of the art design training process. This

not only innovatively introduces the virtual simulation teaching method and online teaching form into the

practical course of art design, but also strengthens the examination and evaluation of practical teaching. It is

conducive to the cultivation of students' innovative spirit and practical ability, promotes the reform of

teaching mode, and makes a positive attempt for the informatization construction of higher education.

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1 INTRODUCTION

As an important force to promote social and

economic development and lead the change of

market environment, digital technology has not only

promoted the transformation and upgrading of

industrial structure in all sectors and fields of the

whole society, but also made clear the new trend of

future development. Innovative modes such as

digital economy, multi-dimensional integration, and

intelligent drive will accelerate the reshaping of the

development pattern of the market and industry in an

all-round way, and become an important way to

achieve high-quality development goals in the new

era and new stage. Under this background, the

modes and ways of people's access to information

are becoming more diversified and convenient, so

that our cognition, thoughts and aesthetics have

undergone tremendous changes. As the concrete

embodiment of our ideology, art design has

gradually realized the innovative development of

networking and informatization, and has the

characteristics of autonomy, timeliness,

environmental protection and intelligence. At the

same time, art design and economic development are

closely related, and they interact and influence each

other. The prosperity of art design needs economic

development as the foundation, and economic

development needs the empowerment and boost of

art design. (Luo, 2019) The development trend of

the art design industry will also be synchronized

with the social and economic development, further

integrating the concepts of science and technology

innovation and application scenario expansion with

interaction, service and sustainability, forming a

comprehensive design concept and a brand-new

design mode, and giving birth to the new demand for

art design talents, and also setting a brand-new

standard for talent training mode.

As an independent and comprehensive art

discipline, the essence of art design is the

comprehensive embodiment of personal thought,

creativity and professional practice ability. Faced

with the rapid changes in the market and industry,

colleges and universities need to focus on solving

the contradiction between the rapid development of

art and design discipline and the insufficient

effectiveness of education and teaching. Colleges

Song, L.

The Practical Value of Virtual Reality Technology in the Practical Teaching Course of Art Design.

DOI: 10.5220/0011913900003613

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and universities should fully realize the seriousness

of the problems existing in the current education and

teaching practice, such as single teaching means,

unscientific training courses, disjointed teaching

content and industrial application, and combine the

current market demand and career development

planning, reform and innovate the art design talent

training mode, form a standardized art design

education system, and improve the quality of talent

training. (Chen, 2021) In view of this, this paper

holds that colleges and universities should give full

play to the positive role of information education

means, create and improve digital teaching

environment, aim at many shortcomings existing in

current art design teaching, build an art design

practice teaching system based on Web technology

and VR technology as the core, and form a set of

practical and comprehensive application solutions by

virtue of the application advantages of virtual

simulation teaching method and online teaching. The

functional design of the system will fully meet the

actual needs of students and teachers, which is not

only conducive to the cultivation of students'

innovative spirit and practical ability, but also can

effectively reduce the difficulty of teachers' work,

improve work efficiency, improve the teaching

system of art design major and promote the reform

of teaching mode.

2 OVERVIEW OF KEY

TECHNOLOGIES

2.1 Virtual Reality Technology

VR (Virtual Reality), that is, virtual reality

technology, is a modern technology that uses

computer hardware devices and software

applications to create a simulation environment, and

integrates visual, auditory, tactile and other intuitive

feelings into it, so that users can interact with

various objects in the virtual environment in a

natural way. (Yang, 2016) In the process of practical

application, the application of virtual reality

technology in the fields of modern education,

military defense, industrial production, culture and

entertainment, health care, urban construction, etc.

has made great progress with its unique immersion,

interactivity and multi-perception.

Virtual training system is the product of the

integration of virtual reality technology and

innovation in modern education. The virtual training

system can be designed and developed according to

the real course content or the actual application

requirements, and the virtual reproduction of the

training environment, conditions, processes and

results can be completed with the help of input and

output devices, servers and application software

programs, so that users can get a similar real training

experience to achieve the effect of replacing or

partially replacing the real training. In addition, the

virtual simulation training system also has

application advantages such as saving time and cost,

avoiding training risks, breaking through time and

space constraints, which not only gives users a great

space for autonomous learning, but also can

effectively improve the training effect and realize

the promotion of integrated teaching efficiency.

The construction process of virtual training

system will go through many steps in turn, such as

overall planning, data collection, material sorting,

original modeling, scenario dummy, interactive

development, test and release. The overall system

architecture model is shown in Figure 1. The virtual

training system can be divided into different

categories according to the immersion degree and

interaction mode. Compared with immersion and

enhanced systems, desktop virtual training system

only needs a generalized computer system to realize

the normal operation of the system. Although it

reduces the immersion of the system, it is convenient

for students and teachers to operate, and has a wide

range of popularization and application. The

research core of this paper is the design and

application of desktop virtual simulation training

system in practice teaching of art design major.

Figure 1: Architecture model of virtual simulation training

system (original)

2.2 3D Modeling

3D digital modeling, also known as 3D modeling, is

a digital technology based on the collection of

points, lines, surfaces and other physical, chemical

and other related information, that is, using

computer systems and operating software to

complete the reproduction of objects or scenes in a

virtual 3D space. (Chen, 2022) 3D modeling

technology is the key content design link in the VR

industry. The quality and fineness of 3D models are

directly related to the presentation effect of virtual

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environment, and also determine the visual and

experience effects of users.

The realization of 3D modeling is inseparable

from the support of operating software tools.

Different software tools have different advantages

and different application scopes. Therefore, it is very

important to choose an appropriate 3D modeling

tool. Common 3D modeling tools include

Rhinoceros, Solid Works, Maya and 3ds Max.

Among them, 3ds Max software has powerful

functions, can adapt to many application scenarios,

supports a large number of extensible application

plug-ins, has good operability, and is not difficult to

learn at the beginning. It is the most widely used 3D

modeling software at present. For the actual

application requirements of this system, 3ds Max

software will be selected to complete the

construction of models and scenes. The process of

3D model building with 3ds Max software is shown

in Figure 2. The main process will involve data

collection of solid model, design and production of

3D model body, building of texture materials,

material giving and baking, and model building and

output.

Figure 2: 3D model building process under MAX software (original)

2.3 Visual Interaction

Visual interaction belongs to the technical category

of human-computer interaction, aiming at realizing

the way that users can access information or interact

with information by using graphics and images as

transmission media. Compared with the traditional

man-machine interaction mode, visual interaction

optimizes the display mode of information,

facilitates users to intuitively and efficiently obtain

real-time dynamic data information in a more natural

way, and improves the effectiveness of man-

machine interaction. In the virtual reality

environment, deep immersion sensory feeling and

natural and comfortable human-computer interaction

are the mainstream research directions of future

virtual reality application systems. (Xu, 2021)

In the interactive design stage, this paper will

choose Unity3D software as the development

engine. Through the built-in functional components

such as collision detection, material setting, particle

dynamic effect and interactive mode, users can

quickly unify the human body movements and the

data operation and processing capabilities of the

system, and realize the real-time interaction between

man and machine. In addition, Unity3D supports a

variety of output formats, which is convenient for

virtual reality systems to run on different equipment

terminals. Among them, WebGL format can support

the display of virtual reality scenes and models in

web pages. It only needs to input the website address

without installing any functional plug-ins, which is

more suitable for the application of desktop virtual

simulation training system of art design in this study.

2.4 Development Process

According to the application requirements of the

above related application technologies, we can

complete the configuration and deployment of the

development environment of art design practice

teaching system. The development content of the

system is divided into two parts. One is to complete

the design, construction and project export of virtual

training function modules based on 3ds Max, Unity

3D and other software. The second is to complete

the integration and encapsulation of the system in

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ASP.NET environment, form a standard Web

application, and publish it on the server.

For the design of virtual training function

module of art design, based on the specific project

cases in the fields of visual communication,

environmental arts, plane and product design

involved in art design, and based on the physical

data of all kinds of tools, materials and finished

products, the corresponding model is made in 3ds

Max software. After the modeling is completed,

materials will be given and maps baked, which will

make the model more realistic and vivid. The

establishment and production of map materials need

to be handled by Photoshop software. After all kinds

of models are designed and built, 3ds Max software

exports all 3D models to. FBX files, and introduces

these files into Unity 3D. In the Unity 3D software,

the integration and assembly of models and scenes,

the addition and optimization of dynamic effects, the

setting and processing of objects in the environment

and the development of key interactive functions

will be completed.

In the process of scene building, there are mainly

terrain creation, lighting and shadow processing, sky

box setting, atomization effect adding and other

steps. Terrain creation mainly depends on the Creat

Terrain command of Unity3D software, and then the

details are edited, including improving the surface

mapping and adding plant models. For interactive

function design, a lot of functional script codes need

to be written. For example, the user can rotate the

model through mouse control. The specific

implementation code is shown in Figure 3. After all

the designs are completed, use Unity 3D to publish

all the 3D data to the Web, that is, choose Unity3D

to choose WebGL for export. After the project is

exported, all content-specific files containing

WebGL are generated.

The overall development of the system is based

on Windows10.0 operating system. The basic

development environment is. net framework 4.7.1 in

ASP.NET, the development language is C#, and the

integrated development tool is Visual Studio Code.

The Web server is Windows IIS 10.0, and the

database is SQL Server 2019. After the system is

fully developed, it will be packaged and published to

the IIS server. After the corresponding ports are

configured, users can use the system from the client

browser. Through the introduction of the above key

technical theories, we have determined the overall

environment of the system development, the running

process of related software and tools, and the

technical feasibility of the overall project of the art

design training teaching system.

Figure 3: Key code for optional mouse control model

(original)

3 DETAILED FUNCTION

IMPLEMENTATION

3.1 Student Side

After the user passes the account password

verification and authentication, the system will

automatically jump to the home page interface.

Under this page, there are two functional modules:

simulation training and training assessment. Under

the simulation training module, students and users

can intuitively obtain the content of training

programs and practice teaching units of special skills

in different professional directions. The curriculum

design is shown in Table 1. Students can choose and

enter the study independently. Before the virtual

simulation training, the system can provide

corresponding video learning materials, which is

convenient for students to quickly master the

training operation process and master the application

methods of the virtual simulation training system.

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Table 1: Design of some training contents

Major field Training content Target

Visual communication design Font design, logo design

Master professional skills and methods to improve

ractical ability.

Environmental art design

Interior design, landscape

design

Master the expression methods of environmental art

design and improve aesthetics.

Product design

Clothing design, household

roduct desi

Master product design process, and have knowledge

of er

onomics and aesthetics.

Graphic design

Advertising design,

ackaging design

Deepen the understanding of graphic design and

improve the ability of design and production.

After students finish their studies, they can

complete the corresponding project training. The

system supports two training modes, one is cognitive

training and the other is functional training. Among

them, cognitive training is mainly to improve

students' level of learning and mastering some

concepts, materials and structures. For example, in

the clothing design project, cognitive training will

realize the "instant change" of fabrics through

different model transformations, visually compare

the clothing appearances of different types of

fabrics, deepen the understanding of the

characteristics of all kinds of fabrics, make students

clear the principles of clothing material selection,

and improve the rationality of clothing fabric design.

(Wang, 2022) Functional training can fully simulate

the whole process of actual work or production,

improve students' proficiency in professional skills

and exercise their comprehensive ability. For

example, clothing design projects, the system will

support users to complete various operations such as

body shape matching, clothing modeling planning,

fabric attribute selection, pattern process design.

During the training process, students can control the

switching of perspectives through the keyboard,

which is convenient to view and control details from

multiple angles. This function depends on the script

code control of Button View Change class under

Unity3D. The key code is shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4: Key code for first-person perspective and third-person perspective switching

Under the training assessment function, student

users can complete the training assessment. The

assessment content is related to the training project,

and the topic will be composed of multiple control

operation commands, each of which corresponds to

a different score, and the system will score it

according to the accuracy of the operation

commands.

3.2 Teacher Side

Compared with the functional design of students,

teachers pay more attention to the design,

maintenance and assistance of practical teaching

courses. When teachers log in to the system, the

main work lies in the uploading and publishing of

training course information and some teaching

resources, as well as the organization and

implementation of training teaching. In addition, the

teachers will give subjective scores according to the

final training results, and the teachers' scores will be

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graded according to five grades: excellent, good,

fair, poor and very poor, with five weights of 10, 8,

5, 3 and 1 respectively. After the evaluation, the

system will automatically construct the evaluation

model matrix, combine all teachers' scores with the

system's automatic scores, and introduce confidence

G to complete the final score evaluation. For

example, Formula 1 is the evaluation matrix, where

C represents the teacher's evaluation score, r

represents the degree scores of different assessment

points, and the final calculation formula of students'

comprehensive evaluation value is shown in

Formula 2, Q represents the system's automatic

score, and M is the final score.

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4 CONCLUSIONS

Based on the actual needs of the reform of modern

education teaching mode in colleges and

universities, this paper puts forward a

comprehensive application solution that combines

online teaching and virtual simulation experiment

teaching methods in view of the difficulties faced by

the current art design practice teaching process. The

construction and application of the system will fully

realize the virtual reproduction of the art design

training process, which is conducive to the

cultivation of students' innovative spirit and practical

ability, promotes the improvement of the art

teaching system, and makes outstanding

contributions to promoting the informatization

construction of higher education.

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