linliwen88 / LonelyDriver

LonelyDriver

Dev log

• 12/13/2023: Initiate project
• 12/14/2023: Created singleton Window class
• 12/15/2023: Render car model
• 12/19/2023: Add light source and road (plane)

• 12/21/2023: Successfully run PhysX snippet (Hello world and Vehicle drive)

• 12/27/2023: Added gravity to car model and light cube
• separated phisics functionalities into a singleton class

• 12/28/2023: Draw skybox using cubemap. Created Skybox class that derives Drawable for special draw calls.
• Toggle var DrawWireframe in App class to draw wireframe.

• 12/31/2023: Generated terrain using height map with Tesselation shader.

• 1/3/2024: changed car model (fixed missing textures) and use semi-fixed time step for render loop and physics step stability.

Warning

I haven't tried to apply PhysX height feild, Not sure if it suits for collision with vehicle so I didn't try it yet. Now I am just going to let the vehicle run on a plane and add textures to the plane instead of using the tesselated terrain.

• 1/4/2024 Import and draw fbx model recursively
  This is for animating wheel direction when turing. I'm not sure why the transformation hierarchy works as I am applying scaling at the left-most of the model matrix (M = T_drawOffset * S * T_2 * T_1 * R), I thought it should be M = T_drawOffset * T_2 * T_1 * R * S.

• 1/6/2024 Added physX vehicle simulation and attached with car model.
  The car is moving in pre-choreographed sequence.

• 1/8/2024 Studied Physx Vehicle SDK structure and applied collision onto vehicle and object in scene. \

• 1/11/2024 Add user input control car throttle, brake, and steer.
  Add Imgui and following camera (to be imporved).

• 1/15/2024 Render terrain with color map. Instance drawing trees with height. \

Warning

Tree dosn't appear if srawn after terrain.

• 1/24/2024 Shadow mappping (shadows are only drarwn on terrain at the momment) \

List of Implemented Features

• Tessellation shader for terrain.
• Incorporated Nvidia PhysX and vehicle SDK.
• Shadow mapping.

TODOs

• clean way to render wireframes (bounding box)
• vehicle physics and user control
• render terrain with textures.
• calculate normal matrix on CPU and send in as uniform
• implement better following camera
• interpolate wheel rotation
• add normal and environment mapping in model shder
• change pointers to smart pointers
• should I move all dependencies (glfw, glm...) into solution folder?
• initialize App variables at contructor