What has been done so far?
FORTIAENGINE
- Help librarys including basic classes for arrays, lists etc, as well as math things.
- Graphics engine library with the following current facilities:
* Scene graph internally organized by space and effects (for easy batching)
* Loading and saving of scenegraphs, and corresponding data (no editor at the moment, but textfiles can be used)
* Has all D3D code in one class enabling easy update from one dx version to another
* Is designed to work with shaders and effects and does batching automatically
* Cameras, Frustum Culling, Viewports and Lights
* User can add functionality without modifying the core classes by simply deriving from them in their application and overriding certain functions
* Newly added things include Animation controllers, Support for Hardware geometry instancing (or emulated if not supported), Transparent object rendering, Conversion of .x meshes including skinning information, Different texture types (2D, Cube, Volume), Texture Shader support.
* 2D drawing and custom text support (not entirely using ID3DXFont)
* Easy to use! About 15 calls and a complex scene can be rendered with all optimization (like batching) done by the engine, although you can control this with the structure of your scene graph.
* BASICALLY: The graphics engine can at the moment be used to render about any effects that you might want to implement with your shaders. The only thing that is not yet added to the core 3d engine is shadow support. This is the next thing on the list, though...
- An application class that you can derive from to quickly get started, as well as a statemanagement system
- A windows control library for easy creation of windows API controls
- Drawing functions for custom GUI. Not yet using input though.
- Soon to come an extention library with classes that derive from the core classes and implement functionality like octree structures, level of detail, billboards, skinned animation etc.
GPU-RIGIDBODY
This is my thesis project that I started about a month ago. It's about implementing rigid body simulations on the GPU. I know Havok already does it, but I'm not doing exactly the same...
At this point I have but sketched som ideas. The most difficult problem is how to do collision detection efficiently on the GPU. This was a hard one, but I finally came to a possible solution for a limited number of different geometrys (about 10). The rest of the rigid body simulation is based on a demo by NVidia (in their samples directory) simulating particle systems on the GPU, only I will extend it to a rigid body simulation.
I will need to test my ideas but theoretically they should work (taking practical limitations into consideration)...
More info about the projects will be filled in as things develop, and can also be found at FortiaGame.com.
