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()

To Do

Resources

Week 2 - Jan 16

This Week

  • Collision Detection
    types of colliders
    spheres
    planes
    axis-aligned bounding boxes
    oriented bounding boxes
  • 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

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

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Week 4 - Jan 30

This Week

  • Vertex Shaders
  • Lighting in Vertex Shaders
    • Lighting Formulas
      • Ambient
      • Diffuse
      • Specular
    • HLSL Functions
      • normalize()
      • dot()
      • saturate()
      • length()

To Do

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Week 5 - Feb 6

This Week

To Do

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Week 6 - Feb 13

This Week

To Do

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Week 7 - Feb 20

This Week

To Do

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