Sue - Week 3 Report

What were your concrete goals for the week?

My concrete goals for the week was to get the Assimp importer working so that we can take 3D models and load their mesh geometry into the game.

What goals were you able to accomplish?

I was able to get the Assimp importer working and the model meshes loaded and rendering in the game.

If the week went differently than you had planned, what were the reasons?

The week went slightly differently than I had planned. The final pipeline I ended up with for importing models is a bit clunky because the .dll from building the Assimp library currently must be manually moved to the folder where the executable of the game is located. I may write a shell script, eventually, to automate this.

What are your specific goals for the next week?

My goals for the next week are to work on collisions. Physics is being worked on by other group members, so I will be focusing on collisions, which will likely mean I will be working on implementing bounding boxes and collision detection of bounding boxes.

What did you learn this week, if anything (and did you expect to learn it)?

I learned a lot about how the Assimp library works, and how to write CMakeLists.

What is your individual morale?

My morale is fairly high. I did tear my hair out a little working with Assimp, but now that I've gotten it to listen to me, I'm doing pretty okay.