Steven Foun

78016995 - q7n2

Jason LH Chin

33279035 - f2q3



Course: CPSC 314

Date: Nov 12, 2004 - Dec 6, 2004 



CPSC 314 Assignment 3





Objective:



Defeat 10 monsters, which will randomly spawn into the arena.

Kill them with a kick, with each costing 20 mana (out of 100 total).

Your mana will automatically regenerate (slowly).

For every hit you receive, your life is reduced by 1 (out of 100 total).

You die when your life is reduced to zero.





Controls:



Esc - Quit game

1   - Start game



Up Arrow    - Move foward

Down Arrow  - Move backwards

Left Arrow  - Turn left

Right Arrow - Turn right



z - Perform Kick



w         - Rotate camera up

s         - Rotate camera down

a         - Rotate camera to the left

d         - Rotate camera to the right

q         - Zoom in

e         - Zoom out

Page Up   - Pan camera up

Page Down - Pan camera down





Standard Features:



- Camera motion supporting rotation, translation and zoom

- Multiple colored light sources

- Complex environment including imported objects

- Texture mapping for objects





Advanced and Extra Features:



- Shadows (shadows change when they move away/to the light source)

- Smooth Motion (used skeletal models to create keyframes)

- Texture Mapped Skybox

- Huge Self-Made Game Engine

- Life and Mana bars

- Title Screen

- Game Over Screen

- Win Screen

- Extra animations for monster characters

- Particle system/engine for fire and for warp portals under gates

- Collision detection (different collision rules for different objects)

- Monster AI (always moves toward character, moves around other monsters)

- Death Animation for character

- Death Animation for monsters

- Spawn engine (deals with how many monsters appear at a time)

- Spawn locations (monsters only spawn at gates and tunnels)

- Censored certain body parts by editing the texture map manually via Photoshop





Libraries:

LTGA   - used to load TGA files as textures

L3DS   - used to load 3DS files as objects

ColDet - used for 3D collision detection





References:



http://www.gametutorials.com  - Various tutorials

http://nehe.gamedev.net/ - various tutorials

http://www.planetquake.com/polycount/ - Character models

http://www.levp.de/3d/ - TGA loader and 3DS loader

http://www.planetside.co.uk/terragen/ - Terragen to create terrain images

http://fps.brainerd.net/terragen.htm - Tutorial on skybox creation using Terragen

http://www.devmaster.net/articles/projectiveshadows/ - Tutorial on using Shadows

http://photoneffect.com/coldet/ - ColDet:  A free 3D collision detection library

http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20000623/vanderburg_03.htm - Tutorial on building particle engine

http://www.lighthouse3d.com - Spherical billboarding, Texture mapped fonts

http://www.swissquake.ch/chumbalum-soft/ - Milkshape 3D:  for model convertion/editing

http://www.insanesoftware.de/ - Model skeleton creation and creating new keyframes