Stephanie

Week 1

Goals

• Get acquainted with D3D11.

Accomplished

• Shaders for directional light.
• Bump mapping with Erik.

Week 2

Goals

• Refactor shader code.
• Find cool graphical effects to implement.
• Start particle systems.

Accomplished

• Refactored shader code and added a shaders manager.
• Glow effect with Erik.
• Rendered textures required for shadows and for any other effects we may want.
• Debug various graphics stuff with Erik.
• Found an artist for our team. \o/

Failed

• Pushed off particle systems since we were excited about shadows, but we are now excited about particle systems again.
• Debugging window for rendered texture isn't showing up.

Next Week Goals

• Directional light shadows.
• At least one working particle system. Ideally more.

Morale

• Good progress!

Week 3

Goals

• Directional light shadows.
• At least one working particle system.

Accomplished

• Atmospheric fog with Erik.
• Sparkles! But most of the logic runs on CPU.
• Shifting particle system logic to GPU by using geometry shaders and stream out, but still debugging.

Failed

• Decided to prioritize efficient particle systems over shadows because we want to have lots of awesome particle systems.
• There was a very subtle bug for the sparkles particle system that took way too long to find.
• Midterms next week so I took a break to catch up in my other classes.

Next Week Goals

• Finish debugging shaders for efficient particle systems.
• Rain and smoke particle systems.

Morale

• I hate and love shaders. Emotionally confuzeds.

Week 4

Goals

• Rain and some other particle system.

Accomplished

• Rain! LogicAlso got it to behave reasonable while speeding through hilly terrain.
• Generic particle system to make future particle systems more easily.

Failed

• A couple midterms got in the way.
• Shader bugs kicked me around for a while, but I've come up with my own way to debug so future shader bugs shouldn't be as torturous.

Next Week Goals

• Temp

Morale

• Glad midterms are out of the way to spend more time on project. Sanity regained after solving shader bugs!

Week 5

Goals

• Temp

Accomplished

• Temp

Failed

• Temp

Next Week Goals

• Temp

Morale

• Temp

Week 6

Goals

• Temp

Accomplished

• Temp

Failed

• Temp

Next Week Goals

• Temp

Morale

• Temp

Week 7

Goals

• Temp

Accomplished

• Temp

Failed

• Temp

Next Week Goals

• Temp

Morale

• Temp

Week 8

Goals

• Temp

Accomplished

• Temp

Failed

• Temp

Next Week Goals

• Temp

Morale

• Temp

Week 9

Goals

• Temp

Accomplished

• Temp

Failed

• Temp

Next Week Goals

• Temp

Morale

• Temp

Week 10

Goals

• Temp

Accomplished

• Temp

Failed

• Temp

Next Week Goals

• Temp

Morale

• Temp