Notes that are here for dates later than the next class day are provisional and subject to change. Lecture notes are all in PDF or txt format.
| Date | Title | Readings and Assignments | Extras | |
| 1/15 | Course Introduction and Structure of Interactive Programs | |||
| 1/17 | 3D Engines and Scene Graphs | |||
| 1/22 | 2D and 3D Homogeneous Transformations |
Assignment 1 Due Feb. 5 |
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| 1/24 | Basic Rendering Pipeline and Shading | |||
| 1/29 | Texture, Bump, Light, and Environment Maps | |||
| 1/31 | Introduction to Physics for Games | |||
| 2/5-2/7 | More Physics and Collision Handling |
Assignment 2 Due Feb. 28 |
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| 2/12-2/14 | Ogre Application Code Organization | |||
| 2/19 | Ogre-Bullet Integration | |||
| 3/21 | Game Engine Architecture | |||
| 2/26 | Networking for Games | |||
| 2/28 | Introduction to Socket Programming | |||
| 3/5 | Networking with sdl_net |
Assignment 3 Due Apr. 2 |
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| 3/7 | Game AI - 1 | |||
| 3/19 | Game AI - 2 | |||
| 3/21 | Beyond Meshes | |||
| 3/26 | LOD Meshes | |||
| 3/28 | LOD Meshes | |||
| 4/2 | Visibility |
Final Assignment Due May 10 |
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| 4/4 | Spatial Data Structures | |||
| 4/9 | Spatial Data Structures II | |||
| 4/11 | Portals and Cells | |||
| 4/16 | Waypoints and Path Planning I | |||
| 4/18 | Path Planning, A* Search | |||
| 4/23 | Dynamic Path Planning | |||
| 4/25 | Flock Behavior, Particle Systems | |||
| 4/30 | TBD | |||
| 5/2 | TBD | |||