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Revision as of 21:47, 3 June 2013

Week 2. Tuesday, April 16th

Graphics

• Glow maps
• Render to texture
• Added mini map to HUD
• Moving point lights
• Height map

Networking

• Real server completed
• Supports multiple clients

• Need to fix networking issues on all systems
• Need to handle disconnected clients and blocking function calls

Game Logic

• Spawn projectiles and mines
• Destroy objects

• Need to fix memory leaks

Art

• Concept art

Morale AWESOME POSSUM.

Week 3. Tuesday, April 23rd

Graphics

• Specular maps, spotlights, lighting manager.
• Atmospheric fog.
• XZ spacial partitioning
• Multithreaded rendering and asset loading.
• Particle systems, but logic runs primarily on CPU.

Networking

• Small fixes, but there are problems that pop up.

Game Logic

• Front/back weapon of vehicle.
• Spawn weapons for pick up.
• Pick up and swap between weapons.
• Damage other players.

Audio

• Simple sound effects with DirectSound

Art

• TBD

Morale AWESOME CORGI.

Week 4. Tuesday, April 30th

Graphics

• Rain and fire particle systems.
• Height maps with blended textures.

Networking

• Solved some networking problems. Other problems still exist though.

Game Logic

• Preliminary client-side prediction of object movements.
• Refactoreded code to shift movement and weapon logic.

Audio

• Optimized parts of audio engine.

Art

• Simple animations.
• 3D cat and vehicle models.

MISC

• Fixed many memory leaks with VLD.
• Load objects in the world from a file.

Morale AWESOME CAT.

Week 5. Tuesday, May 7th

Graphics

• Particle systems manager.
• Particle systems for thrusters, smoke, alien fire, missiles.
• Camera stays above ground.
• Frustum culling on height map.
• Rendering non-axis aligned bounding boxes.
• Proper calculation of binormals and tangents for the height map.

Networking

• Resolve client-server connection problem.
• Solved various packet problems.
• Don't send packets of objects that don't change state.

Game Logic

• Color types for vehicles and front weapons.
• Player deaths, kill count, respawning.
• Game ending logic.
• Tweaks on collision detection.

Audio

• Fixed muting problem.
• More sound effects.
• Various optimizations.

Art

• Different colored vehicles.
• Gatling gun model.

Misc

• Fixed some heap corruption problems but still a problem.
• Fixed a deadlock problem.

Morale AWESOME LLAMA.

Week 6. Tuesday, May 14th

Graphics

• Animation loading.
• Particle systems:

• Significant refactoring of particle systems and particle systems manager.
• Implemented particle systems for pulse cannon, missiles, gatling gun, vehicle explosion.
• Particles can die out more naturally after game logic releases particle system.

• Lighting effects for firing weapons, collisions, explosions.
• Progress on directional light shadows.

Game Logic

• Color types for front weapons and power ups.
• Missiles home on enemies.
• Rotate vehicle based on terrain normal.
• Weather controller.
• Logic for lobby screen (before actual game starts).

Audio

• More sounds.

Art

• Pulse cannon model.

Misc

• Custom smart pointer to help figure out our heap corruption problems.

Morale AWESOME CHINCHILLA.

Week 7. Tuesday, May 21st

Graphics

• Directional light shadows.
• HUD resizes.

Game Logic

• Player icon.
• Various fixes.
• Loading screen.

Audio

• More sounds.

Art

• More models.

Misc

• Installer and uninstaller.

Morale AWESOME GATOR.

Week 8. Tuesday, May 28th

Graphics

• HUD

• Displays stats of all players.
• Terrain-textured minimap.

• Particle systems:

• Muzzle flash for gatling gun.
• Electric damage for vehicle that takes damage.
• Tweaks and fixes to already existing particle systems.

Game Logic

• Weapon Logic

• Mines align with ground.
• Auto-aim for gatling gun.

• Collision Handling

• Object bank for centralized adding/removing/filtering types.
• Fixed double collisions.
• Reduced number of objects to check for collision detection.

• Character selection screen.
• Updated physics and vehicle movement behavior.
• Character model within vehicle during gameplay.
• Death camera follows your killer.

Audio

•  ?

Art

•  ?

Morale AWESOME GIRAFFE.

Week 9. Tuesday, June 4th

Graphics

• Shadows

• Spotlight shadows
• PSSMs

• Particle systems:

• Acquire weapon event particles.
• Shield particles.
• Holy sparkles.
• Sprite hover for players to display name.

Game Logic

• Weapon/Support Item Logic

• Fire trail weapon.
• Shield nullifies damage.
• Pulse projectile homes and stuns enemies.

• Updated death screen.
• Cycle through weapons.
• Added new models into game.
• Progress on game level design.

Art

• Character model heads.
• Weapon icons.

Morale AWESOME WALLABY.

Week 10. Tuesday, June 11th

TBD