GAM670/DPS905 Weekly Schedule 20111

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GAM670/DPS905 -- Weekly Schedule 20111

Week 1 - Jan 9

This Week

• Suggested Enhancements
• Assignment Discussion
• Review of base code
  • camera, sound, and light attachments now made at the Frame class
  • textures still attach at the object level
  • texture connection uncoupled from drawing
  • time tracking now within HUD class completely
  • introduction of relative reference frames
  • very simple collision detection
• Relative Reference Frames
  • Recursive calls

    Vector Frame::position()

    Matrix Frame::rotation()

    Matrix Frame::world()

  • Detaching from and attaching to a parent frame

    Frame::attachTo()

• Visibility Determination
  • Plane

    normal + constant - examples

    equation of a plane: dot(n, x) + D = 0

    positive side of a plane dot(n, x) + D > 0

    test a point for presence within a set of planes

    normal calculations - general rotation matrix - vector and angle

  • ViewingFrustum

    parameters

    • near-clipping plane

      far-clipping plane

      field of view angle

      aspect ratio

    6 planes

    • near and far planes

      left and right planes

      top and bottom planes

    • coding

      constructor

      ViewingFrustum::contains()

• Finite Size of Objects
  • Expansion of the Viewing Frustum
  • Bounded Volume

    BoundedVolume : Frame

    BoundedVolume::setRadius()

    BoundedVolume::getRadius()

Week 2 - Jan 16

This Week

• Collision Detection
• Comprehensive Camerawork
• Billboards and Skyboxes
• Index Buffers, Meshes

To Do

• Form Teams, Identify Members (3 members) and add your team and members to Teams 20111 Before Thursday 20th.
• Confirm your name and information at Student List 20111

Resources

• DirectX SDK June 2010