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()
- Recursive calls
- 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()
- parameters
- Plane
- Finite Size of Objects
- Expansion of the Viewing Frustum
- Bounded Volume
- BoundedVolume : Frame
- BoundedVolume::setRadius()
- BoundedVolume::getRadius()
To Do
Resources
Week 2 - Jan 16
This Week
- Collision Detection
- types of colliders
- spheres
- planes
- axis-aligned bounding boxes
- oriented bounding boxes
- types of colliders
- Comprehensive Camerawork
- rotation about an axis
- order of rotation matters
- Euler angles
- gimble lock
- quaternions
- geometric algebra (more abstract)
- Billboards
- definition, purpose of a billboard
- types of billboards
- SkyBox
- definition of a skybox
- other forms
- Index Buffers
- amount of storage needed for vertex data
- duplication of vertex data
- indexing
- indexed primitives
- Meshes
- Stock Objects
- Sphere
- Cylinder
- Torus
- Utah Teapot
- Simple Mesh COM object
- What is a mesh?
- Create a Mesh
- DrawSubset
- FVF settings
- Stock Objects
To Do
- Form Teams, Identify Members (2-5 members) and add your team and members to Teams 20111 Before Thursday 20th.
- Confirm your name and information at Student List 20111
Resources
Week 3 - Jan 23
This Week
To Do
Resources
Week 4 - Jan 30
This Week
- Vertex Shaders
- Lighting in Vertex Shaders
- Lighting Formulas
- Ambient
- Diffuse
- Specular
- HLSL Functions
- normalize()
- dot()
- saturate()
- length()
- Lighting Formulas