Some of you (the ones who read this page.. which I guess is…. me) may have been wondering where I’ve been. Well, been working non stop on my graphics final project, and it’s amazing how a blog can become not so much a blog, but a progress report on the graphics course, when people take graphics. Alas, I didn’t post blow-by-blow info on the project, pity, might have been good to break up to monotony. Anyway, it’s done, got the demo tomorrow. It’s quite bad actually, the game.. well, compared to what I had in my head.
You know your game is in trouble when the collision detection routine you had working ‘perfectly’ only the day before, suddenly lets enemy components travel outside the game universe.
Only wish I could detect that, then I’d have a woman’s voice say “this is an illegal exit, you must return to the game grid”, alas.
In that same theme, here is an amusing website, a list of things that might happen When you know your game is in trouble
I’ll post shots of my game later I guess.
Edit: Here is a thumbnail page of shots
Edit2: Here is the manual
With less than a week, things are getting quite frantic with the project, ugh.
Managed to get keyframe animation in, and some particle system stuff. Still frustum culling and collision detection to do, icky.
Here is a new shot
Made slight progress today, but more or less took the day off due to illness.
Here is a new shot… quite creepy
I think I’m going straight to hell, heh
Got a little ways in the graphics project today, displacement mapping and texturing seems to work.
here is a screenshot showing a plane with displacement, textured with a really bad temporary wood texture (that tiles).. the bluey sphere in the middle is the position the sperm will take (camera fixed).
As I’m just really bored, I’ve decided to post about broken google.
For the first time I’ve ever seen, the google main page image is broken, looks like they were trying to put up a st patrick’s day related one, ah well.
Here’s the screencap
As of 11:53pm, it’s still broken.
Note: This is google.ca I’m talking about here
Since there’s nothing else going on in my life, might as well post about graphics project.
Started it in earnest now, with actually very little time left… looks like I’ve screwed myself, heh. anyway, here is the final proposal, hopefully it isn’t as terrible as all that. I’ll probably post with progress over the next couple weeks.
Proposal
More Mystery Science Theater 3000, and, mysteriously enough, this became sort of an advert for a particular italian soft drink… but I assure you, it happened organically.
This is the output from the raytracer I just spent 12 hours a day for the past 9 days working on.
Here is the manual
Edit: Now the picture links to a bigger version of the image
Edit 2: Got the mark back, I guess my scene was only 50% better than baseline acceptable. Begs the question, why the hell did I work so hard on it? Alas.
Started working on my graphics project (instead of… say… working on the last assignment which is due first, or studying for the midterm which is tomorrow)
Anyway, got a slight animation sample here, think it looks good enough.
Robot Roll Call – CamBot…. Gypsy…. Tom Servo….
CROOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!! (That’s one ‘o’)
So here’s my puppet for the third graphics assignment. If you’ve never seen any of Mystery Science Theater 3000, then you are unlikely to know what this is, anyway, enjoy.
Here’s the manual
