Basketball Hierarchical Modeling Animation!

By: Corrigan Johnson

Description

An animation of a hierarchically modeled basketball player dribbling and shooting a basketball (written in C++ / Eigen / OpenGL). A directional light source was used to illuminate the player, hoops, and ball (with phong shading).

Features

• Basketball player composed of a head, neck, torso, upper arms, lower arms, hands, 5 fingers per hand (two joints per finger), hips, upper legs, lower legs, and feet.
• Basketball player can dribble a basketball.
• Basketball player can shoot a basketball over his head from half court. The shot follows the trajectory of a circle to the backboard and then bounces back to the player's hand.
• Free move camera that allows the user to zoom in and out, strafe around the scene, and rotate the focus of the camera.

Lessons Learned

• Stay organized! There are a lot of parts to model so keeping your code clean is the only way to keep your sanity.

Pictures

Sources

• Hierarchical Modeling
• Phong Shading

Download

The basketball player model is fairly complex since there are so many different components. Use the comments spread throughout the model to understand what is going on.
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