Matt Progress Report: 4/23/01

Goals for the past week

Fix the quad tree, implement lighting, and complete the integration of the project.

Accomplishments for the past week

We actually did integrate the graphics with the game engine on Wednesday, but the code was really messy. We decided to modularize everything. Modularizing the graphics took the majority of the time from Wednesday to Sunday. Now the everything has been put into its own module, we will meet at 2pm today to do the final integration. I am confident that we will complete this before out meeting at 5:10pm. I am also changing the quad tree as was scheduled last week. This should not take me more than 1 or 2 hours. Nothing having to do with lighting was done at all, but I discussed this with Edwin and we feel that lighting is not necessary at this point since everything is textured. I think lighting will be moved from a "must have" to a "would be nice" feature.

List of schedule-altering events

None (hopefully)

Plans for the coming week

The next big task is creating the user interface for the game. This consists of on screen controls, and all the meters and widgets that are necessary to the player during game play.

Morale Rating

I agree with Leo, "HEY, WE'RE DOING IT". It is amazing what you can do if you just apply yourself.