Masters Project

Implementing Flame using a Mass Spring System

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Made using C++, Qt, GLM and the NCCA graphics library (NGL).

My Master's Degree Masters Project.

Uses Qt for the user interface.

Created for use on Linux but should also work on Windows.

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Source code on GitHub

Online version of the documentation

About

This is an implementation of Flame using a Mass-Spring system. It was created as my Masters Project for my Master’s degree. It is created using C++, Qt, GLM and the NCCA Graphics Library (NGL). The user interface was built using Qt and this code is written to work on Linux, however it should also work on Windows. The point of this project was to test a concept that I found in a paper from 2006 that uses Mass Spring as a method of fire simulation. I implemented a basic cloth simulation and then applied a random flame texture from a set of 8 textures. I then apply a buoyancy to the cloth (essentially acting a reverse gravity force) along with a wind force that is applied based an impulse time. This gives an impression of the movement of the flame. The user interface allows the modification of the forces acting on the mass spring object and the internal forces for the mass spring object. It also allows setting the number of flames to be in the scene. The application displays the frame rate in the corner and using this I took measurements of how much the number of flames effected the frame rate and used different machines with different specifications to get four sets of results to compare. This is currently ungraded.

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RenderMan Lego Figure

A Python script using PRMan and OSL to generate a Lego figure

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Made using Python, PRMan and OSL.

Master's Degree University Assignment - Currently Ungraded.

PRMan is the Python API for RenderMan.

The script has command line options for things such as colour, damage, dirt and shirt type.

Uses a HDRI for the lighting and background and OSL for the shaders.

Source code on GitHub

Online version of the documentation

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This is a Python script that I created for my Rendering assignment as part of the Simulation and Rendering unit for my master’s degree. For the assignment I had to use RenderMan and its associated API to model, and render a simple scene containing a single object. I decided to use PRMan to allow me to write the script using Python as PRMan is the RenderMan API for Python. I decided to create a Lego Figure as it was made up of mostly primitive shapes and part of the brief was to create the geometry using primitives. I then used OSL (Open Shader Language) to create the shaders for the figure. The shaders created allowed the texturing and colours along with the displacement for the scratches and the hole for the Lego figure’s arm. I built in command line functions for the script that would allow the figure to have variation, with the ability to set the colour, the damage and the dirt levels. You can also choose the shirt type the shader to generate, a choice of Perlin, check, blank and camo. As the assignment required to images from different angles I also added a command to switch to an alternative angle, along with the file type to output (.rib, .exr or just render to it). This assignment was graded as a high merit.

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Houdini City Generator

A Houdini City Generator Digital Asset

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Made using Houdini.

A digital asset for Houdini for city generation.

Contains both default primitive buildings and the ability to load in custom geometry.

Master's Degree University Assignment - Graded as a Merit.

Contains multiple parameters to affect the city generation.

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This is a City Generation Digital Asset that I created using Houdini. This was the first time I had used Houdini and was it created for the Computer Generated Imagery Tools unit on my Master’s course. For this assignment I had to create a Geometry Level Houdini Digital Asset that can quickly configure a City. It had to contain five base Primitive Geometry models of buildings and arrange, scatter and distribute this Primitive Geometry across a terrain grid in accordance with a series of predefined parameters. It also had to have the ability to trade out the Primitive Geometry with higher-level geometry. This assignment was graded as a Merit.

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Culinary Creature Combat

A Unity 2D Game

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Made using Unity and C#.

Made as part of the Ludum Dare 41 Game Jam in a team of 2 people.

The theme was 'Combine 2 Incompatible Genres'.

This was my first attempt at making a game in Unity and using C#.

I also created the art assets of the game.

Click here to go to the game on the Ludum Dare website.

Click here for the WebGL version of the game (Hosted on my other team member's itch.io).

About

This was made for the Ludum Dare 41 Game Jam. This is an online Game Jam that people around the world enter. This was created in a team of two people and was created over 72 hours. The theme was ‘Combine 2 Incompatible Genres’ and we decided to create a Pokémon (RPG) style game with Overcooked (Cooking). We decided to create it as a 2D game using Unity. This was my first time using Unity and using C#. I worked mainly on the spawning code and creating the map. I also created all the art assets. As it was a Unity game it was exported for Windows, Linux, Mac and WebGL. The games all get reviewed by people on the internet over a 30-day period. After the 30-day period was up all the comments were positive. The game came 512th place overall out of 1898 games, however in the individual categories we came 136th place for the theme. Considering that this is our first game made with Unity, our first time entering Ludum dare and there was only two of us, we are quite happy with the results!

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Other Team Members

Richard Hancock - Portfolio

Level H Engine

A component based C++ Game Engine

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Assignment 2

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Made using C++ and OpenGL with SDL.

Built for two Final year University Assignments.

Both Assignments were graded as a 1st.

In-built features include Heightmap generation, 3D, 2D, Flocking AI, Basic physics and a Component System

2D implementation is designed to work like SDL where screen position is automatically converted to OpenGL coordinates.

Source code on GitHub: Assignment 1

Source code on GitHub: Assignment 2

Online version of the documentation: Assignment 1

Online version of the documentation: Assignment 2

About

This was built over two university assignments for Games Engine Programming in level H. For the first assignment we had to build a basic 3D engine that could display multiple 3D objects using correct component based objects, control the movement of objects using mouse and keyboard input and basic sphere-sphere, box-box and box-sphere collision. For the second assignment we were told to implement any additional features to the engine and build games to demonstrate the features and functions of the engine. The features that I decided to add was 2D, Flocking AI and heightmap generation. I also spent the assignment improving on all of the old features of my engine, such as how the 3D is rendered with OpenGL. Both of the assignments were graded as a first.

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JAM

A Cross-platform Windows and Android C++ Game Engine Framework

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Made using C++ and the Android NDK with SDL.

2nd year University Assignment - Graded as a 1st.

A basic framework for creating C++ games that work on both Windows and Android.

Contains several pre-built classes and functions for use with project that use the framework.

Source code on GitHub

Online version of the documentation

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The second assignment for Mobile Games Programming in level I. For this assignment we had to build a mobile game engine framework and to include at least one specific engine feature of our choice. I decided that I would create a framework that would allow cross-platform support for C++ on Windows and Android. It is built using the Android NDK with SDL2, SDL2_image, SDL2_ttf and SDL2_mixer. The Android debug apk can be built from within the Visual Studio project. My framework also contains pre-built code for A* pathfinding, line of sight detection, particle effects and flocking. Also contains a basic entity, state, texture, text, collision detection, audio, Vec2 and utilities class. It also has a State System and a basic UI system including buttons and arrow pads. This assignment was a graded a 1st.

GitHub source code: Audio Demo, Line of Sight Demo, A* Demo, Flocking Demo, UI Demo

Online Documentation: Audio Demo, Line of Sight Demo, A* Demo, Flocking Demo, UI Demo

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