Difference between revisions of "Erik"

Revision as of 19:28, 29 April 2013

Week 1

Goals

• Get a basic 3d engine working.

Accomplished

• Basic world, with a moving third and first person camera.
• A skymap, using cube mapping.
• Calculation/Rendering of bounding boxes and spheres based on our loaded models.
• Rendering and loading of textures.
• Bump mapping with Stephanie.
• Class for reading XML settings.
• Keyboard input, and camera movement with the mouse.

Week 2

Goals

• Point lights.
• Multi-threaded rendering.
• Glow maps.
• Specular maps.

Accomplished

• Multiple moving point lights.
• Glow effect with Stephanie.
• Height map generated based on terrain objects.
• Mouse buttons for input.
• Calculation of normal vectors during model loading, if they are missing from the model.
• Normalized model sizes, and centered them during model loading.

Failed

• Had problems rendering more than 1 frame on multiple cores, and moved on to other things. Will take another stab at it at some point.
• Didn't get around to implementing specular maps.

Next weeks goals

• Shadows from directional lights.
• Shadows from point lights.
• Multi-core rendering.
• Specular maps.
• Write a framework for handing out the lights to the game logic (hiding the fact that there is only a finite number of lights available).
• Prevent the camera's view of the player from being obscured by other objects.

Morale

• Not feeling very creative right now, so I'll quote you, Geoff, "HEY, THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT".

Week 3

Goals

• Shadows from directional lights.
• Shadows from point lights.
• Multi-core rendering.
• Specular maps.
• Write a framework for handing out the lights to the game logic (hiding the fact that there is only a finite number of lights available).
• Prevent the camera's view of the player from being obscured by other objects.
• Expand the heightmap to also include "heights" in the x and z directions.

Accomplished

• Specular maps.
• Lighting manager.
• Spotlights.
• Atmospheric fog with Stephanie.
• XZ spacial partitioning and collisions with static objects. (scrapped the x/z heightmap in favor of this due to the memory to accuracy ratio of the heightmap method).
• Multithreaded rendering and asset loading.

Failed

• Shadows
• Preventing the camera's view of the player from being obscured
• Didn't get around to trying either of the above due to the number of hours per week problem.

Next weeks goals

• Shadows, of all kinds
• The camera thing (mentioned twice above)
• Volumetric lighting (if time allows, probably not)

Morale

• C++11 is great! :D

Week 4

Goals

• Hunt down memory leaks.
• Shadows from directional lights.
• Shadows from point lights.
• Shadows from spotlights.
• Prevent the camera's view of the player from being obscured by other objects.
• Volumetric lighting.

Accomplished

• Added VLD to our project (really neat tool btw). Fixed all memory leaks we detected while simply running/closing our game (we still aren't releasing all our D3D/D2D/WIC/DSound resources properly).
• Fixed some uninitiated variables which would cause crashes when running without the debugger attached.
• Fixed issue where the client would completely freeze it it was unable to process all update-packets from the server before the server sent the next batch of update-packtes.
• Implemented some preliminary client-side prediction of object movements.

Failed

• Everything aside from the memory leak stuff. Didn't get around to looking at any of it, since other things were higher on my priority list.

Next weeks goals

• Shadows

Morale

• Was feeling a little tired this week, but things are going good :)

Week 5

TBD

Week 6

TBD

Week 7

TBD

Week 8

TBD

Week 9

TBD

Week 10

TBD