Week 5
April 30 - May 6

Graphics Completed

• Completed Integration
• Implemented “DeathCam” for masochistic users
• Researching rendering algorithms for speeding up rendering with multiple materials
•  Integrated death explosion
•  Integrated hit explosion

Graphics In-Progress

•  Update Skybox
•  3D billboarding in all directions
•  Touch up death explosions
•  design 2D flag image
•  Do spawning animation

Accomplished this week

• Finished integration with graphics engine

• Finished integration with game engine (both server and client)

• Debugged code, fixed input messaging

• Found new sounds

• Set up WinCVS (finally)

Goals for next week

·        Find better wav files for basic actions

·        Figure out how to play background music during play and find background music

·        Finish client/server code

·        Integrate with game engine code

Accomplished this week

•  Started working on collisions

• Started on "rules of the game"

              - Crossing the finish line

               - Detecting a winner    -

• Finished movement algorithm

(all of this was hard to test seeing as how internet access is quite expensive from an airplane)

Goals for next week:

• FINISH COLLISIONS!!

• Finish Game Rules

• Implement Asteroids