If this is not in place the 3D game client will not detect your HANA version correctly and charts won’t work (the setting is needed for the SHINE currency conversion). IMPORTANT: for Rev 72 you must make sure that your user id has a default Session Client set. SP8 is not tested yet, but will work if the SHINE content is similar.
The following versions are supported: Rev 60 / SP6, Rev 70 / SP7 and Rev 72. If you don’t have access to one already, you can get your own HANA system.
#FREE GAME FRONTEND HOW TO#
To try out the 3D Game Client for yourself follow the next section: 1) How to Install and Play HANA SHINE 3D Backend Prerequisites A big thanks to Aron MacDonald for his input to this work, helping with testing and providing valuable feedback and ideas. There is no backend install required on the HANA system, you just need the local client. You can install the client on your PC or Mac and connect to any HANA server that has the SHINE content installed (it is there by default now if you are on a recent revision). were recently bought by Facebook, so 3D may be becoming more mainstream in future.
It is interesting to see that a company that make 3D Virtual Reality goggles, called Oculus Rift. It is arguably a form of “ gamification“, and this article is the “Making of” companion to another article posted over on the SCN gamification area which looks more at the gameplay aspects (such as they are) and how the PoC could be developed further. Think of it as a Proof of Concept showing what sort of things are possible with a 3D interface over HANA. You may well ask “why on earth would I want to connect a 3D front-end to HANA?” That is a very valid question, and one I’ve asked myself more than once. If you stand on the switches near the bar charts you control what the charts display, and these are showing the same data as you see in the SHINE web reports. These changes are reflected in HANA before the graphical effects happen in the game. Here are some screenshots:Īs you can see, if you reject a PO in the game it explodes, whilst approved POs zoom upwards to their (religion-neutral) “PO Heaven”. The cardboard boxes are the POs, with images of their contents from the Rev72 system. This shows a Rev72 system having POs approved and rejected and some bar charts analysed, occasionally showing the SHINE Web interface for comparison: This video gives you a better idea of how it plays out.
#FREE GAME FRONTEND CODE#
Details on how to install and run the client yourself, along with its source code are given later. Have you ever wanted to actually shoot your data? Well now you can 🙂. There is also a reporting element, where 3D bar charts can be climbed on to give you a different perspective on your data – OLTP (of sorts) and OLAP in a single 3D world. The client reads Purchase Order (PO) information from the HANA system and creates PO “creatures” in the game that you can then hunt, analyse and shoot to approve or reject them in the HANA system. The 3D game client runs on your Mac or PC and connects to your HANA server. This article describes how to fit a 3D game front-end on top of the SHINE ( SAP HANA Interactive Education) demo content available in your SAP HANA system.
#FREE GAME FRONTEND SOFTWARE#
Have you ever wondered what would happen if you took software used for business processing and somehow combined it with software used for 3D games? Something like this:
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