Computer Graphics Lab

Lectures

Week	Content	Notes
01	Administrative	[Note]
02	Programming Languages C++ ActionScript3	[Note]
03	Programming Hello world Simple C programming Variable Loop If Pointer and array Functions and header Class and structure	[Variable, loop, if and array] [Note1] [Note2] [Note4] [Note3]
04	Guest Lecture Game Design and Programming How to become a Game Design 10 Design criteria	[Note]
05	Game Anatomy Interactive applications Script Languages XML Text and binary data Event-driven and sequential programming	[Note]
06	Computer Graphics
07	2D Graphics Image Intensity perception 　Dynamic Range 　Color and Light Tri-chromacy Color spaces Image file formats Image Processing Color Quantization Sampling Filtering Resampling NPR Two-image processing Compositing Image warping	[Note]
08	2D UI and Flash User interface Flash Actionscript and Flash Actionscript and XML Flash and OGRE3D	[2D and UI] [AS3 Notes 1] [AS3 Notes 2] [AS3 Games] [AS3 Examples]
09	OGRE 3D What's OGRE3D Install OGRE3D Fundamental OGRE3D	[OGRE3D]
10	OGRE 3D & Hikari What's OGRE3D	[OGRE3D and Hikari] [Flash Menu]
11	OGRE 3D Animation Animation Pick	[OGRE3D Animation] [Maya OGRE Export] [Examples] [Walk Examples] [Pick Examples]
12	OGRE 3D Examples Sample Examples for OGRE3D	[OGRE3D Examples]
13	OGRE 3D Roller Coaster Roller coaster concept Track construction: straight line and BSpline Car	[OGRE3D Roller Coaster]
14	Kinect SDK

PreRequisites

Technically, Computer Graphics and good C++ programming skills.

Grading

Fall Semester
- 3 CS Projects (10%, 10%, 15%)
- Course game presentation (10%)
- Maya midterm and Final (20%, 25%)
- Review (10%)
Spring Semester
- A 3D Game: 100%

Programming Projects

Syllabus

What problems are tried to be solved
Complexity of game development. (games cover a big part of computer engeneering)

2D graphics: basic transformations, image operations etc.
Designing a simple 2D game ( Questions: students need to learn another programming tools)

Short tutorial of a action script 3 game (give a sense what are the problems of user control, animating characters, collision detection, artificial intelligence etc.)
Example games: Gun Shooting or Space Ship Battle (very very basic just get the students the sense of developing a game)
Project: given a skeleton program write a very simple 2D game.

Introduction to window applications (each element of the interface is registered as a window and sends events to the main application)
Event listeners
Introduction to Actionscript3 for simple menus and buttons
XML and Actionsctipt3 for dynamic contents (loading entire menu from an XML file)
Custom event listeners in Actionscript3
Sending external function calls from flash to C++ programs, passing parameters.
Receiving external function calls from C++ to flash.
Introduction to the hikari library
Binding flash calls in C++ event listeners
Whole system integration tutorial and examples

Animation, walking between points, and basic quaternions
Project: create flash interface to control character animations and environment conditions like light, fog etc.

Results