Computer Graphics Lab

Instructors	Yu-Chi Lai
Office Hour	9:00AM~11:00AM, Wed or by appointment
TA	Chun-Wei Wang Yu-Hsiang Hsu Yueh-Ju Sung

Lectures 1

Week	Content	Notes	Assignment
01	Administrative Tell us about yourself. Experience... OpenGL? C++ Math? Why did you sign up for this class? What do you hope to learn?	[Notes]	Homework1: investigate a game. CS Project 1
02	Game Anatomy Work for modeling Designing interactive software Interactive applications Script Languages XML Text and binary data Event-driven and sequential programming	[Notes]	CS Project 1
03	Input Device Sensors in market Wii Remote & Fit PS move XBOX 360 Kinect Gyro GPS Accelerator IPhone sensor	[Notes]	CS Project 1
04	Local Illumination Simple reflection model Simple light source model Shading methods	[Notes]	CS Project 1
05	Texture Pipeline Graphics Pipeline Texture Mapping Mapping Techniques Advanced Texturing	[Notes]	CS Project 2
06	Multiple pass Reflection Transmission Caustics Instant Radiosity Shadow Dirty shadow Shadow map Shadow volume Ambient occlusion	[Notes]	CS Project 2
07	CUDA Introduction to GPU Introduction to CUDA Graphics Pipeline Rendering process Shader Stream processor Memory architecture	[Notes]	CS Project 2
08	Shader Vertex shader Pixel shader GPU programmming language GLSL Examples	[Notes]	CS Project 2
09	Acceleration Spatial partitioning Uniform grid Octree Kd-tree BSP-tree BVH	[Notes]	CS Project 3
10	LOD and Terrain Level of detail selection LOD Error Metrics Progressive LOD View Dependent LOD Terrain LOD Terrain Dynamic LOD Terrain Generation	[Notes]	CS Project 3
11	AI FSM Decision trees Rule-based systems Path Finding	[Notes]	CS Project 3
12	Physics Differential Equations Overview of differential equation Initial value problem Explicit numeric methods Implicit numeric methods Modular implementation	[Notes]	CS Project 3
13	Particles Particle overview Second order motion Particle system Forces: gravity, springs … Implementation and Interaction Simple collisions	[Notes]	CS Project 3
14	Network Introduction to Network in Game Latency Network Protocol	[Notes]	CS Project 3

Lectures 2

Week	Content	Notes
Aux 01	2D UI and Flash User interface Flash Actionscript and Flash Actionscript and XML Flash and OGRE3D	[AS3 Examples] [AS3 Games] [AS3 Notes 2] [AS3 Notes 1] [2D and UI]
Aux 02	OGRE3D What's OGRE3D Install OGRE3D Fundamental OGRE3D OGRE 3D & Hikari What's OGRE3D OGRE 3D Animation Animation Pick OGRE 3D Examples Sample Examples for OGRE3D OGRE 3D Roller Coaster Roller coaster concept Track construction: straight line and BSpline Car	[OGRE3D Examples] [Maya OGRE3D Export] [OGRE3D Animation] [OGRE3D and Hikari] [OGRE3D] [Short tutorial] [Terrain] [OGRE3D Roller Coaster]
Aux 03	Kinect SDK	[Notes]
Aux 04	Guest Lecture Game Design and Programming How to become a Game Design 10 Design criteria	[Notes 1] [Notes 2] [Notes 2]
Aux 05	Maya Script Pymel	[Note] [Pymel-1.0.3]

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

Anatomy of a game
Introduction to computer graphics.

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

Introduction to object oriented programming

Overview of classes, methods and attributes

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 Ogre3D

Simple beginner’s application
Entities, SceneNodes and SceneManager
Basic mesh loading
Basic light
Basic materials
I/O mouse and keyboard
Project: create a simple scene

Developing user interface

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

Loading animated characters and skeletons in Ogre3D

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

RaySceneQueries and SceneQuery Masks for ray intersections
Mouse picking (3D object selection)
Physics: introduction to bullet

Results