Walking Man

Christopher Beichler

CPE471: Final Project Winter 2017

Project Description

For this project, I created a hierarchical model of a humanoid figure that walks.
The figure is built using basic cubes that have been transformed in a matrix stack.
It has a simple walk cycle in which it turns its torso and hips and swings its arms while it walks.

Graphic Topics Implemented

The technologies and techniqued implemented in this project are:

• Pitch and Yaw Camera
• Model Transforms
• Phong Shading
• Lighting

Controls

• "w/s": Move forward/backwards
• "a/d": Strafe left/right
• "q/e": Pan camera left/right
• "r/f": Pan camera up/down
• "x/c": Lower/raise camera elevation
• mouse movement: rotate model
• mouse click: recenter model

Lessons Learned

While a lot of the project was about building the hierarchical model, the most thought provoking component was about animating the model. The main problem was thinking about how the human body moves and to mimic that fluid motion. Rather than looking up walk cycles online, I spent a lot of time walking in circles and thinking about how each body part moved. In order to create a repeated motion, the walk cycle uses a verson of sin(x) for each body part.

References

Base code was CPE 471 Lab 6 by Zoe Wood.