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/

Reasons For Failing

• 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.

Reasons For Failing

• 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

• Hate and love shaders. Emotionally confused.

Week 4

Goals

• Finish rain.
• Some other particle system.

Accomplished

• Rain! Got it to behave reasonably well while player speeds through hilly terrain.
• Generic particle system as framework for all particle systems.
• Fire! Still needs to be tweaked and perhaps find a better texture.

Reasons For Failing

• None, didn't set high goals due to expected midterms.

Next Week Goals

• Particle system manager.
• Logic for dynamic entities (missiles, players, etc) to communicate with particle systems.
• More particle systems!

Morale

• Sanity regained.

Week 5

Goals

• Particle system manager.
• Logic for dynamic entities (missiles, players, etc) to communicate with particle systems.
• More particle systems!

Accomplished

• Particle system manager. Buffers particle systems for dynamic requests and communicates with game logic.
• Smoke particle system. Adjusts based on player HP.
• Thruster trail particle system. Adjusts based on acceleration and turning direction.
• Pulse cannon projectile particle system.
• Color type logic for players and front weapons.

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