Space Scene with Particle Lasers
CSC 471 - Zoe Wood | Nimisha Patel | Fall 2017
Introduction/Overview
I wanted to recreate the Rick and Morty episode with planets and heads and being able to shoot planets. However with time constraints and yelling at my computer that wasn't the best. BUT was able to recreate a solar system scene and shoot a laser hose in the 1st person point of view.
Features and Implementation
- Texture mapping of planets on sphere objects
- WASD Keys
- Pitch and Yaw with Scrolling
- Particles as lasers when you press the spacebar
Things I wished I did/Things Work in Progress
- When you press the space bar particles spray like a hose. Sometimes it has a hard time updating the lookat point or origin of the lasers beginning position.
- Collision logic is there. Need to add conditionals to planets and if it is hit then don't render planet/fade else keep consistent. But prints true/false to terminal when it particle hits the planet.
- Getting a stl file (assimp) to upload the heads and use the phone shader to set materials and reflect light correctly (sun as light source)
Resources/References
Planet textures for sphere objects
- Particle Generation (Lab 10)
- Textures (Lab 9)
- Pitch and Yaw with Scrolling (Project 3)