WW2 Flight Simulator

Alex Burke's CSC 471 Project

In this flight simulator, you get to take the helm of an authentic WW2-era Supermarine Spitfire aircraft. This british made aircraft once reigned supreme over european land before, during, and after WW2. Under your control, it can once again fly.

My project utilizes the following key computer graphics technolgies:
      1. OBJ File rendering
      2. Model, View, and Projection matrix transformations (rotation, translation, scaleing)
      3. Heirarchical Model Animation (as displayed with the propellor rotation)
      4. Physics based animation (as displayed with the Spitfire's velocity calculation)
      5. Cinematic overview camera motion
      6. Blinn-phong lighting 
      7. Texture wrapping
      8. Particle animation with realistic Physics
      9. Collision detection
      10. Multiple object control modes
      11. Use of multiple vertex and fragment shaders
      12. Skybox
      13. Fake shadows (squashed models with shading)

Flying over the runway flying with the animated plane crashing into the ground crashing into the tower taxiing on the ground 
This program was developed as a project for Dr. Wood's CSC 471 Computer Graphics class. 
     Dr. Wood was enourmously helpful in the creation of this project and I thank her for her contributions and expertise.
    
     In additon, I used the following resources and libraries over the development of this project:
       1. TurboSquid (for OBJ files)
       2. Lab4 (Heirarchical Modeling)
       3. Program2 (rendering)
       4. Lab5 (lighting)
       5. Lab6 (textures)
       6. Program4 (camera)
       7. Lab9 (particles)
       8. TinyOBJ (obj loader)
       9. C++ 'math.h' (Pi and mathematic functions)