(Undergraduate)
[OpenGL Resources] [Game development Resources] [3D Model Resources] [Q&A]
Instructor:Jung-Hong Chuang (莊榮宏)
jhchuang@cs.nctu.edu.tw. EC525,5731829 , Office Hour :10-12 Am Thursday or by appointment
Teaching Assistant: Tan-Chi Ho(何丹期), Keng Shih-Ling(耿世瓴), Holmes Chiou(邱挺)
Office Hour:Mon 6-7(何丹期)Tue 6-7(耿世瓴)Wed 6-7(邱挺)
Laboratory: Computer Graphics & Geometric Modeling Lab
EC512 TEL: 5712121 ext 54787
Course Outline: Syllabus
Part1 :
Course overview and demo (3D graphics, animation, game)
3D pipeline graphics techniques
Global illumination
Part 2:
3D game engine design之相關專題介紹： 分為三部分
a、3D game engine design 之架構與技術
b、邀請國內遊戲公司設計3D Game engine之專家介紹其引擎
c、深入講解國外 Quake 與Auran 引擎之架構與技術
Part 3:
Texture mapping and Shadow
2D-to-3D Texture mapping、Bump mapping、Environment map、Multitexturing、Billboarding Light map、Normal map、 Vertex shader、Pixel shader、Projective texture mapping、 Shadow map、Shadow volume、Shadow with projective texture mapping
Natural Phenomena
Particle system、Cloud model /rendering、Terrain generation/rendering、Fluid modeling/rendering
Real-time rendering techniques
Portal culling、Occluding culling、Level-of-detail modeling、Image-based rendering、Hybrid rendering
Grading:
One midterm (20%)
one final (20%)
Programming assignments (60%)
2 programs (10+20)%
1 project, two tracks (30%)
Project (interaction and content) or Game designProject Competition
The best Project/game made for the term project will be selected.
The competition will be judged on technical merit , interaction or game play , and originality.
There will be several awards and one grand prize.
Discussion Newsgroup: csie.course.u.computer-graphics
Any announcement about this course and assignments will be thrown in this newsgroup, so please pay more attention to this newsgroup. You are
encouraged to post any question about this course, OpenGL programming, or related topics in this newsgroup. The TA will try his best to answer the questions.
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Chap. 1 Introduction by Jung-Hong Chuang
Chap. 2 Making Shaded Images (revised) by Jung-Hong Chuang
Chap. 3 View Pipeline by Jung-Hong Chuang
Chap. 4 Implementation of a Renderer by Jung-Hong Chuang
Chap. 5 Global Illumination by Jung-Hong Chuang
Game Engine
Talk
2002/11/18 by Jian-Liang Lin
Talk 2002/11/25 by Kevin C. Wang
Talk 2002/12/02 (Quake) by Holmes,
Chiou
Talk 2002/12/09 (Auran) by Keng
Shih-Ling
Chap.
6 Discrete Techniques by
Jung-Hong Chuang 
Chap.
7 Special Effects by
Jung-Hong Chuang
Chap.
8 Real-Time Rendering by
Jung-Hong Chuang
Chap. 1 Introduction to OpenGL by Tan-Chi Ho
Chap. 2 Drawing by Tan-Chi Ho
Chap. 3 Viewing and Transformation by Keng Shin-Ling
Chap. 4 Color and Lighting by Keng Shin-Ling
Chap. 5 Texture Mapping by Chiou Holmes
Sample code for load bitmap by Chiou Holmes
Chap. 6 Buffers by Chiou Holmes
[1] Projection, HSR, and Shading
- Objective: Viewing projection, Z Buffer, Gouraud shading, OpenGL
- Due: 10/21, 2002
- Demo Program: hwk1_demo.zip
[2] Rendering Pipeline Implementation
- Objective: To fully understand how to implement the underlying rendering pipeline
- Due: 11/19/2002 (Phase 1)
- Due: 11/26/2002 (Phase 2)
- Demo Program: hwk2_demo.zip
- Example Proposal: Proposal.doc by 簡元伯, 祝祺
- 2001 student's gallery
The OpenGL official site. The Latest OpenGL related news will be post in this site. You also can find lots of useful materials in this site. My suggestion is that more often this site is visited, more knowledge about OpenGL you will get.
OpenGL Library:
Microsoft OpenGL Library for Win95
OpenGL v1.1 runtime is included as part of operating system for Win95(OSR2), WinNT 4.0 and higher. So you don't need to download this unless you use Win95.
OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) Website
Check out the latest GLUT development. **PS. GLUT3.7 provide a gaming mode & fullscreen support.
Here contains the information of GLUT for Win32. For normal user, just download glut-x.x.x-dlls.zip and place glut32.dll in you Windows/System32 directory, and place glut.h, glut32.lib in the correct path (such as Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Include and Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\Lib).
Mesa 3D Graphics Library is a clone of OpenGL. You can choose to use it to replace other OpenGL implementation. If your platform is Linux, FreeBSD, ..., and running X, you may have to apply this library. This library contains GLUT, too.
OpenGL Online Books:
OpenGL Programming Guide(Red-book)
A very useful on-line manual for quick reference. What differs most between a real book and an on-line manual is that the on-line manual supports hyperlink reading.
OpenGL Reference Manual(Blue-book)
Like the previous link. This is the internet version of the book 'OpenGL Reference Manual'.
OpenGL Programming Tutorials:
Toturials for learning OpenGL and useful related links.The web teach coding 3d graphics in OpenGL step by step.
The Developer's Gallery(OpenGL)
Tutorials on Open Inventor, collision detection, picking, texturing, GLUT and more.
OpenGL DEMOs about the texture mapping, programmable vertex and pixel shaders, include source codes.
Most demo programs require OpenGL extensions, and some require nVidia or ATI specific extensions.
More tutorials can be found here
A very useful site for collection lots of 3D rendeirng engines. You can find lots of sample code to be refered.
This is a well known benchmark to measure the 3D rendering performance of systems running under OpenGL.
Another site aimed at providing resources for game developers.
Gamasutra The Art & Science of Making Games.
This is a Web site devoted to game development. It contains articles about all aspects of the game industry and development process including a number of feature articles on game programming. Gamasutra is a supplementary site of Game Developer magazine.
This is the Web resource page accompanying your optional textbook, Real-Time Rendering, and covers many topics of interest to developers of video game graphics engines.
This site serves professional developers of visual simulation systems such as flight simulators and military training applications. Video games and visual simulation systems share a broad range of development issues, from designing realistic 3D environments to real-time rendering of complex graphics.
Graphics related software tools
This is a great starting point for programs and data for 3D game content. In particular, check out their links to shareware 3D modeling programs as well as their numerous links to collections of thousands of free 3D models and textures (follow the index links "3D Objects>Free Objects" and "Textures>Free" on the left side of their Web page).
An excellent web site to obtain free 3D models, textures, ...
Level-of-Detail Book provides 3D Models