Project

• Title: Extendable flight simulator
• Participants:
  • Robert Cranston, robcr829

This project aims to implement a simple flight simulator with a focus on exploring different techniques and libraries to make future extensions as simple as possible.

Tasks

Italicized tasks will be implemented only if time allows.

• [ ] Use common, well regarded, libraries
  • [ ] SDL or GLFW
  • [ ] GLM
  • [ ] Assimp
  • [ ] ImGui
  • [ ] declared in a shell.nix file (to aid installation on systems on which the user does not have administrator privileges)
• [ ] Model loading from disk
  • [ ] Create model
  • [ ] with Blender Python scripting
• [ ] Terrain rendering
  • [ ] generated procedurally
  • [ ] automatically multi-textured
• [ ] Sky box
  • [ ] generated procedurally
• [ ] Dynamic water
  • [ ] updated with fragment shader and realized with geometry shader
  • [ ] rendered with cube mapping
• [ ] Flying
  • [ ] with simple collision detection
• [ ] FBO stack machine
• [ ] Multiple dynamic lights
• [ ] “Special effects”
  • [ ] bloom
  • [ ] simple motion blur