Nicholas Lay Weekly Progress Report

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• Worked on setting milestone descriptions
• Worked on UML chart with group

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• Did some refactoring and re-organization of the UML chart, specifically to make a Biped class instead of a Player class since our game will have the unique ability of taking control of any enemy.

Commits: 159fba03

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• Fixed some minor errors I've found, didn't do much else in terms of individual coding this week

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• Tried for about a week straight to get object loading working in Luna, but it wouldn't work correctly.
• Implemented a first person camera that follows a character that moves around with the camera and WASD controls
• Implemented a debug camera that freely flies around the scene, able to be switched with the first person camera at will
• Currently in the process of going through every tutorial on http://www.braynzarsoft.net/ and implementing it all into our project.

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• Still in the process of taking the framework found at braynzarsoft and implementing it into our classes.
• Uploaded the code used in the MWS demonstration

Commits: 2ecb39ce4c

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Our group decided it would be best to use Braynzarsoft's DirectX 11 code base, rather than Luna's, because it allows for object model loading. We need the ability to load objects created with Blender/3DS Max, albeit at a later date in development process. Braynzarsoft's DirectX 11 code allows for all the functionality we need for our program, but the code in the tutorials is presented in one file with no classes. As such, I have been going through every tutorial and creating classes where there are none.

I've gone through over half of the tutorials and am nearly done with object file loading, which is one of the main reasons for changing our code base. I have also been taking our existing relevant model classes and implementing them alongside the tutorial code to prepare for smoother integration into our project.

This week I plan to take the rest of our model classes and modify them to work with the Braynzarsoft code. Many of the model classes are generic enough that they worked with Braynzarsoft already, with a few minor updates. I should finally have a significant amount of code to upload instead of having separate projects.

What I desire to have finished this week is a 'demo' of the different functions we are now able to have, such as object loading (as mentioned), as well as collision detection and picking. These things were not as practical to accomplish with Luna's code base.

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I took the files I've been working on and put them into the project, which includes many basic rendering functions and more notably object loading and picking. Right now there are some objects in the world that can be shot at and are then removed from the world, keeping a score of how many you've hit. I've been uploading the labs that I've put into classes if anyone reading this is interested: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2hhlkq0xe247042/AAAy_QquMotbI_m6R-XJXRQYa?dl=0

This week I'm going to integrate the remaining few model classes into this new framework, and continue with implementation of the remaining features our group wants from the labs, such as MD5 model animation. Once we clean up Luna's leftover code, our model classes and required functionality should all be in place, and we should be ready to focus on the supplementary aspects.

Commits: 4d774195

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• Implemented MD5 model animation into the Mesh class
• Will work on bounding volumes, first person gun, and making classes cleaner and more efficient in implementation
• I will also work on updating our unit tests, as we have been ignoring them for awhile and the tests are outdated right now

Commits: 067f969, 13abd6f

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• Implemented basics of gun model and types
• Implemented new terrain rendering and heightmapping techniques
• Will finish Weapon class and implement the 'body switching' ability

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• Added more weapons, weapon kickback, ability to switch between weapons with number keys
• Added ability to shoot weird smiley men to death, B to show hitbox
• Smiley men can animate, though it lowers the framerate a good bit, Y to animate
• Will finish up Unit Tests