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We started with Lab 5 (pushed already) and we now have to create kind of a boilerplate for everyone to use it easily on their computer.

• Window
• Mac

Something's wrong with phong shader lol.

We have talked about briefly last meeting on July 25th. Basically, we coulld be able to be inside the rocket by simply pressing the key 4 for example. We could see outside from a window and see things inside the model.

• Would be cool to have random planet descriptions when looking at a given plane with the mouse

We will be working on splines throughout our project. To achieve our roller coaster rocket project, we will need:

• Design a way to generate tracks (not with a model, but with some drawing)
• Extrapolate multiple points from the spline using a text file (using a script)
• Place tracks along those points

Right now, if the params are changed, points can be generated infinitely even if there is no more space.

Add the number of generated planets below FPS

Reposition the sun

The rocket (cart) must be aligned on the spline to be able to move.

• Find the model online
• Place it on the spline
• Make it follow the same path as the tangent vectors on spline

A physical world must be worked on for our planets and rocket to work properly.

• We're going to need physics in the world using first and second derivatives on the B-Spline for the acceleration and speed of the rocket
• Additionally gravitational fields need to be implemented on the different planets according to their mass

The background could either have:

• Pictures of the universe and planets
• Other stars

We need a rocket model

Weird defect, this was working before. I looked online and glColor may not work and the model may be black because we have to define or disable shading for tracks.

So in this picture, we see that the tracks are there around the planets, but we cannot see them because they render black and the background is black too.

From this story here #10 we need to design the main menu. Originally, what I thought the menu could have is:

From launching the program

• Loading Screen (Area51 title, slogan, picture, progress bar)
• Launch Screen (project picture, Explore World button, Guide Tour button & settings)

Discuss.

#3 Once that task is complete it would be cool to have a static setup for development.

I am currently unable to get a real loading progress bar. I would need to find a way to pre compute all the points on the spline when the planets are generated. This is affecting issue #10 but is not important for now.

• Would be cool to have some cool looping background music somehow 😛
• Even when the rocket is moving and when we get near a planet, we should put some sounds

It would be cool to have a camera shake effect randomly generated into the rocket.

Investigating the shaders, cameras and drawing functions to see what is going on.

After everything is loaded and a mode is chosen, a window on the side must be rendered showing:

• FPS
• Other info if needed

Add a texture of the sun to a sphere model (SunModel).

Camera inside roller coaster

• Use view matrix
• Compute Projection Matrix inside cart on splines
• Move the LookAt Vector around with mouse inside the cart

Camera outside roller coaster

• Use view matrix
• Compute Projection Matrix at a specific random point on ground
• Move the keys ‘a’, ‘w’, ‘s’ and ‘d’

It would be cool if we had many sample of carts that we can do the planet tour with. You would pick your cart model to do the tour (just like a race game before we race).

Need a fix for this.

It would be cool to have this feature. We have to:

• Detect collision between rocket & planets
• Find a proper sound for a collision
• Animate the collision with particles
• Fade out the rocket for some times and respawn like in games

Add a 3D sound effect for the rocket once the rocket model is finished along with its particle emitter.

To be able to avoid collision between our objects, we need to clip most of them.
Many objects will be generated randomly such as planets and stars (or forest if we stick to the tracks).

It would be cool to have a shooter attached to the model. We could even add a aim that points to the cursor.

Also, hitting the planets could give you points maybe ?

A particle system is needed to make:

• Star Gazing
• Particles (smoke) behind the rocket

• We need to have randomly generated planet models in the skybox of different sizes and random textures.

• We also need to have fire shooting out of the back of the rocket in flight.

Now that we have a clean boilerplate we need to reintegrate the spline riding from one of the labs.

Now that we have the loading screen working, we need a navigation menu right after everything is finished loading. We must:

• Have a logo
• Explore button that goes to explore mode
• Guide Tour button that goes to tour mode
• Settings button that goes to settings screen (have to design thisn screen too)

Demo:

• Once loaded in the sun model must have rays of light coming out of it.
• This lighting needs to be applied on all the objects in the scene and on to the spacecraft

Once #77 is done, we can now start this story. If the shooter beam hits a planet, Sun or stars, we detect it and increase the user's points (at top or on side).

• Planets (10 points)
• Sun (20 points)
• Stars (30 points)

A user interface at the beginning when the program starts would be neat to have. It would have:

• Planet tour button (1st person camera on spline)
• Free Tour button (3rd camera)
• Picture animated in the background
• Picture title of the project
• Have to be able to load the spline points while loading

Currently sCurrentShader needs to be set to 1 or Pathlines in order to see any BSplines.

Random color of planets should be done in the shader

This issue has been removed due to duplicate here #2 .

Now that a cylinder has been rendered on the spline, it is time to render better tracks.

• Draw 2 offset cylinders on sides of spline
• Draw a bigger line in the middle of 2 last cylinders
• Adjust color if needed (middle cylinders should be blue and others red for example)