Kyler Schwartz - week 2 report

Concrete Goals

• Familiarize myself with DirectX 11
• Decide on a 3d model format that will suppport animations and familiarize myself with it
• Implement the parser for loading the model

Accomplished Goals

• Familiarize myself with DirectX 11 (partly)
• Decided on using FBX file format for models with animation and partly familiar with format
• FBX parser currently loads vertices and indices

Problems with Meeting Goals

• Learning DirextX 11
• • Followed a few tutorials to get the shape rendered on the screen but still have much more to learn, thus the reason for partly accomplished.
• FBX file format
• • Got the vertices and indices loaded, but haven’t been able to figure out where the texture coordinates are stored.
• Parser Implementation
• • Supports vertices and indices but dimensions of models have boundaries that will be solved once camera and perspectives are implemented. Still need to account for FBX right-hand rule vs DirectX left-hand rule.

Goals for Next Week

• Expand on the FBX parser to include texture coordinates, as well as possibly normals
• Implment an object loader for models that won’t have animation and make the load function file smart.