My goal with this project was to create a sandbox where I could play around with many different graphics technologies. The scene features two cars, one car which drives around the road, and another which is controlled by the player. This sandbox was very useful in aiding me while testing the new graphics concepts learned in class, and I built up this sandbox with more and more new elements over this quarter.

Computer Graphics Technologies

Blinn-Phong Shading
Lighting

Spotlight
Attenuation

Pitch and Yaw Camera
Third-Person Follow Camera
User Controlled Car
Textures

Skybox
Cars
Lamps
Benches
Cactii

Collision Detection

Cars
Benches
Lamps
Cactii
Stopsign
Bunny

Particles

Smoke From Exhaust Of Cars

Boids
Splines
Materials
Vertex Normal Computation

Controls

WASD For Pitch And Yaw Camera
UP DOWN LEFT RIGHT ARROW KEYS For User Car Movement
U to enter Third-Person Follow Car Mode
M To Change Materials
G To Enter Camera Spline Mode
H To Toggle The Car's Movement Along The Road
R To Reset The Camera
T To Reset The Boids
Z To Toggle Objects Polygons
ESC To Quit

Object Resources Used

In-game Images

Dolly Around Scene

A gif of using the pitch and yaw camera to traverse through the scene.

Drive Car Around Scene

A gif of the car being controlled by the user, crashing into the lamp and then the other car.

Boids Flying Near Car

This shows the second car moved slightlym with the other car in sight on the road and boids flying above.

Entry Point Of Scene

This shows the car on the road turning around one of the corners, with smoke trailing behind and a lamp, bench and stopsign in sight.

Car Sandbox

Michael Srouji, CSC 471 - Fall 2021

Computer Graphics Technologies

Controls

Object Resources Used

In-game Images