Roller Coaster Adventures

By: Timothy Phan and Peter Chau

CPE471-01

Spring 2012

Overview

This game simulates a roller coaster from first person view using a fully automated camera following a track. The balloons and track were

both created using Blender and then exported as an obj file to our program using a loader. The track utilizes a bezier curve to model a

smooth curve for our roller coaster to follow. The world environment consists of a plane that was textured with grass and splits a textured

sphere in half to create a sky-like dome. The simulator was created using C++ with OpenGL and GLUT for the graphics APIs.

Controls

1/2 – Increases/Decreases the speed of the roller coaster.

Z/X – Increases/Decreases the amount of red in the light color.

C/V – Increases/Decreases the amount of green in the light color.

B/N – Increases/Decreases the amount of blue in the light color.

T/G – Increases/Decreases the X-position of the light.

Y/H – Increases/Decreases the Y-position of the light.

U/J – Increases/Decreases the Z-position of the light.

Q – Quits the program.

R – Resets the light position/light color/speed to the defaults.

Resources

Creating the track - http://ssimpossible.blogspot.com/2010/09/creating-roller-coaster-in-blender-25.html

Creating the balloons - http://www.matica.com/tutorials/blender/blender-simulating-a-balloon-tutorial

Various code given by Zoe Wood.