Tai Nguyen

Week 4

This Week's Accomplishments:

• joined this group officially to help work on the Graphics team
• got the build environment working perfectly
• decided on the Collada file format (.dae) for model files

Goals for Next Week:

• get help and familiarize with the current code.
• look into loading object models using Assimp

Week 5

This Week's Accomplishments:

• can load any model files that Assimp supports.
• kinda integrated Assimp's scene structure into our rendering engine

Goals for Next Week:

• add support for texturing and/or animation.
• texture: look into DevIL, an image processing library to load images onto a 3D model mesh
• animation: a whole new can of worms

Concerns:

• next week's schedule is getting tough, I'll have less time to work on 125.

Week 6

This Week's Accomplishments:

• Experimented with new texture loading codes.

Goals for Next Week:

• use textures for our skybox
• animation

Concerns:

• Sun God is next week. People won't make it