3D Game Programming

[ Course slides ] [ Course program packages ] [ Useful links ]

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General information

Office Hour: Monday: 09:00 - 10:00

Office: Room 527

Email: wingo.wong@gmail.com or cswingo@cs.nctu.edu.tw

#ext. 56626

Teaching Assistants

電資大樓 707

Microelectronics &

Information Systems

Research Building

Room 707

Tel. x59274

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Final Project

Presentation

What to do?

1. Submit your hardcopy final project report

2. Present and demo your work.

3. Presentation time: 15-20 minutes

4. Live Demo. Show source code and explain it

Each group member must present and then each group performs a demo. Also you should submit a hard copy report.

Show clearly what you have done.

Report requirement

Term project requirement

Presentation Marking Scheme

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Proposal

Submit a hard copy in class.

The proposal should have 2 pages.

The following items should be included:

0. The information of the group members.

1. Introduction

2. Game Story

3. System requirement

4. How the game will be played?

5. Milestones

6. Work load distribution

7. SWOT

etc.

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Lab Exercises:

Free time exercise: Set One Instruction;

Free time exercise: Set Two Instruction;

Empty skeleton package [.NET2010]

Demo package [.NET2010]

You should follow the instruction and finish all the exercises.

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Old course slides

Topics	Contents	Source code(參考源程序)
0	Course Outline Introduction to Game Development Doxygen ( Documentation)
1	The Main Game Loop Introduction to Engine Main Loop
2	3D Engine Training (1)	SceneNode Entity Hierarchy Camera Viewport Shadows Multi SceneManagers
3	3D Engine Training (2)	Terrain (try different types of SceneManager) Sky ( try different types and materials) Fog (try it out!) FrameListener_intro ( check command console) FrameListener KeyEvents etc. (Try unbuffered mode and buffered mode)
4	Ogre Programming Intermediate Int. Tutorial One (Animation) Int. Tutorial Two (Viewport ray) Int. Tutorial Three (Query Mask) Int. Tutorial Four (Volume selection)	Character Animation Source Code RayQuery Source Code Simple Selection Source Code Simple Volume Selection Source Code Mapping between screen and scene
5	Geometry for Games	Creation of mesh in Ogre3D Ogre manual mesh ppt
6	Advanced Ogre Topics and Cg programming	Sample program (Reference: Editable Terrain Manager)
7	Introduction to Game Development
8	Game System Analysis
9	Game Mathematics
10	Scene Management
11	Terrain
12	Game AI - Path finding
13	Game AI - Steering behaviour	Example One (Constant force magnitude) Example Two (Inverse distance)
14	Game AI - Finite State Machine
15	Game Physics - Particle system & Game Effect (FX)	Simple Net 1 (using springs) Simple Net 2
16	Hero’s Journey /span> Characters	skeleton demo source
17	Network Gaming
18	Introduction to MMOG
19	Non3D part and course summary
20	Project demo

Sample Demo (Written by me)

Simple OpenAL demo + Ogre3D (with source code)

Useful links

OGRE3D main homepage, www.ogre3d.org/
Information on OGRE3D: http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Tutorials: http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Ogre_Tutorials

OGRE3D on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGRE_Engine

Editable terrain editor: http://www.oddbeat.de/wiki/etm

Wiki, http://en.wikipedia.org/

Doxygen: http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/

Blender:https://www.blender.org/

A Free 3D manipulator program.

GIMP (Image manipulation program): http://www.gimp.org/

You can edit the terrain by using GIMP. Note that the final image should be flattened and stored as gray-level image.

MeshLab: http://meshlab.sourceforge.net/

MeshLab is an open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. The system is aimed to help the processing of the typical not-so-small unstructured models arising in 3D scanning, providing a set of tools for editing, cleaning, healing, inspecting, rendering and converting this kind of meshes.

Live for speed ( Online racing simulator ) : http://www.lfs.net/

Last updated: 13^th Sep. 2020