ITCS 4010/5010: Game Engine Design (Spring 2006)

Instructor

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

Teaching Assistant:

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]
• Geometric 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 [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
  • Culling Algorithms, Level of Detail [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
• Collision Detection [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
• Pipeline Optimization [1 slide per page] [4 slides per page]
• Intersection Methods [PPT][1 slide per page]

• Project 1 Interactive Viewers
  Sample Application Sources [proj1.h] [proj1.cpp] [obj.h] [obj.cpp] [Data File: city.obj]
• Project 2 Lighting, Quaternions
• Project 3 Texture Mapping
  Sample Program with loader [Sample Loader (tar gzipped]
• TERM PROJECT: Building a Game Engine
  

  

  

  Last update: K.R. Subramanian (krs@uncc.edu), Aug. 29, 2005