General Description

My final project is a simplified bowling game. There is no scoring nor count of frames.

Instructions

To run the program:

• (Mac OSX users can skip this step): Download and extract the ZIP below (all extracteed files must be kept in the same directory).
• Run the binary (called either "bowling", "bowling.exe", or "bowling.dmg" depending on your platform).
• Play the game.
  1. Positioning and Aim
     • Move the ball left and right by pressing "a" for left and "d" for right
     • Use the left and right arrows to aim the ball; the direction of the ball is shown by the black line on the floor in front of the ball
     • Press "B" to toggle having bumpers
     • Press spacebar to lock in aim and position and move on to choosing speed
  2. Speed
     • Press the spacebar to choose your speed and roll the bal

Executables

The program is available for download in compiled binary format. Each is in a zip file with bmp files that must be extracted to the same directory as the program itself.

• Windows XP 32-bit (likely compatible with other Windows versions)
• Linux 64-bit (compiled on Vogon as of 3/16/2010 with `uname -a` = "Linux vogon.csc.calpoly.edu 2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 13 05:38:53 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux")
• Mac OSX [3]

Course Principles Illustrated

The project illustrated the folling topics from CSC-471:

• Lighting (bumpers, gutters, pins)
• Hierarchical modeling (pins, floor, bumpers)
• Pitch camera
• Texture mapping (pins, ball, floor)
• Perspective viewing
• Matrix operations
• Collision detection (ball, pins)

Screenshots

References

1. Bowling ball texture: http://cbasham.com/views/bowlingballviews.html
2. Bowling alley texture: http://graphics.ucsd.edu/courses/rendering/2007/nbenhaim/
3. Prentice Wongvibulsin - Mac OSX Compile