HW4 - 3D Games

Nikki Kyllonen - kyllo089

22 November 2017

Overview

When this assignment was first described, I got very nervous because it sounded so difficult. Because of this, I was scared to start and got myself to just focus first on parsing and then move on from there. It took me a while to understand how to structure and go about this assignment. Every time I thought about trying to implement the requirements beyond just parsing I just forced the thought from my mind because I had no idea.

Once I began figuring things out -really once Professor Guy posted his example code- and I actually got to work on the graphics, I had a number of problems. After going in and having Dalton and Stephen tell me that I wasn't even binding a VAO or a VBO and getting that fixed, I had a lot of trouble rendering the map. I just couldn't get things to show up and I still don't quite know why, but after talking to Liam and listening to his recommendation to store my WorldObjects into a flattened 1D array of WorldObject* instead of a 2D array of non-pointers, I finally got it to render my map. I had a nagging suspicion that my storage was the problem since I wasn't storing the objects as pointers.

After that, things seemed to go fairly smoothly in comparison. Until the last day, today. I got really stuck on collision checking because I broke it when I tried to reorganize so that I could use KEY_DOWN and allow the user to hold down an arrow key in order to move. After fighting and struggling with it, I just reverted to my previous version (yay GitHub!!) and abandoned any dreams of continuous movement.

Implementation

• main.cpp
• Utilities:
  • Util.h/.cpp
  • Camera.h/.cpp
  • Character.h/.cpp
  • Coord2D.h/.cpp
  • Vec3D.h/.cpp
  • Material.h/.cpp
• World.h/.cpp
• WorldObject.h/.cpp
  • WO_Start.h/.cpp
  • WO_Goal.h/.cpp
  • WO_Wall.h/.cpp
  • WO_Key.h/.cpp
  • WO_Door.h/.cpp

Additional Features

• Textured doors (wood.bmp) and floors (grey_stones.bmp)
• Door opening animation
• Example videos (Below! WARNING: there is background music! I was listening to some soft korean music and thought it would be fun to record it with my screen capturing software)