Roller Coaster
November 15th, 2006
Howdy. You’re probably wondering where I’ve been for the last month. Well, I survived those three midterms I mentioned. I received a good grade on the image editor I had to write. Also, I was assigned a project to create a roller coaster that could be built in “real-time.” I used OpenGL and fltk to build the program. I had to do everything from scratch. So, I had to define a curve for the track and figure out how to orient cars of the roller coaster to the track. I spent over 90 hours in about a week’s time. It was a ton of work, and I guess I don’t mind the punishment because I’m signing up for a games class next semester.
My final project for this semester will be to build a city. It’s meant to be an experiment with both texturing and modeling. However, we are supposed to have multiple “entities” moving about. The professor will hopefully be nice and provide the base code that was given the last time the class was taught. It already has some very simple cars moving about on the roads of a little residential district. Although, the texturing sucks for the base code.