ITCS 3050: Game Engine Programming (Fall 2006)

Instructor

Office Hours: Wed. 3-4pm, or by appointment

Course Description (PDF)

TEXTBOOK

• Tomas Akenine-Moller, Eric Haines, Real-Time Rendering (2nd Edition)}, A.K. Peters
• Web Links (Realtime Rendering): www.realtimerendering.com

REFERENCES/DOCUMENTATION

• David Shreiner, Mason Woo, Jackie Neider, Tom Davis, OpenGL Programming Guide, 5th Edition, OpenGL, Version 2, Addison Wesley, 2006
  
  • On-Line Manuals: [OpenGL Programming Guide] [OpenGL Reference Manual]
• Randi Rost, OpenGL Shading Language, Addison Wesley, 2004
  • On-Line Manuals: [OpenGL Shading Language]
• Fast and Light Tookit (FLTK):
  • FLTK Documentation

• Introduction, Graphics Rendering Pipeline [PPT][1 slide per page] [PDF][4 slides per page]
• Background: Linear Algebra [PDF][1 slide per page] [PDF][4 slides per page]
• Geometric Transforms [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
  • OpenGL Transforms Tutorial[PPT]
• Viewing and Projections [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
• Visual Appearance [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
• Texture Mapping: Principles [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
• Texture Mapping: Methods [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
  • OpenGL Texture Mapping Tutorial[PPT]
• Acceleration Algorithms
  • Spatial Data Structures, Culling, Level of Detail [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
• Collision Detection [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
• Pipeline Optimization
• Intersection Methods

PROJECTS

• Project 1 Interactive Viewers
  • Simple Cube Example Using GLUT(Source)
  • [Data File: city.obj]
  • [Data File: Material file for city.obj]
  • [Textures(Zip File of BMPS)]
  • [Textures(Zip File of PPMS)]
• Project 2 : Texture Mapping
  
  • Checker Board Example(From OpenGL Red Book sources)
    MipMap Example(From OpenGL Red Book sources)
    
  • Mip Mapping Example(From GLUT sources)
  • Bump Mapping Example (from Glut sources:) On our lab linux machines, under /tkswe/glut3.7/progs/advanced97
    • Source: [bump.c]
    • Data Files:[ogllogo.bw] [plank.rgb]
    • Output: bump.jpg
• TERM PROJECT: Building a Game Engine
  

  

  

  Last update: K.R. Subramanian (krs@uncc.edu), Aug. 28, 2006