A software tool for rendering animated 3D models.
Program was written as a part of engineering thesis for computer science degree. The goal of this thesis was to make a software tool rendering both static and animated 3D models using skeletal animation as an animation technique, and modern OpenGL as an rendering backend. The result of the implementation work is a comprehensive software tool that meets the established requirements. The application allows user to load selected models and animations, supporting three model file formats. Rich graphical user interface offers several visualization modes, tools for manual loading object textures, editing lighting parameters, as well as manipulation of other parameters of the virtual world.
The codebase is divided into two modules - engine module compiled into static libary and sandbox application called Johnnie. Majority of the code is reusable and resides on the engine side. The client application basically implements the whole UI that integrates engine features exposed via API.
Features:
- Static / skeletal mesh loading
- Loading and playing skeletal animations
- Model material specification - diffuse / specular / normal textures loading
- Point and directional lights (old school Blinn-Phong lighting model)
- Shadow mapping
- Logging / profiling tools
- Scalable and easy to use API
git clone https://github.com/09pawel0898/Johnnie
Microsoft Visual Studio
Enter Scripts/ directory, run GenerateProjectFiles_VS2019.bat script for VS2019 project generation. Navigate to Build/, open Project.sln and build Johnnie target.
