Graphics

• Implemented various graphics programming features for a second-year university assignment.

• I wrote the engine in C++ using the following libraries: assimp, fmod, glew, freeglut, freetype, glm, soil.

• These graphics projects have taught me how to write a variety of different shader types in GLSL, how to create and build upon a simple game engine, how the graphics pipeline functions in OpenGL, and many other graphics principles.

Character

• Made a loader for meshes and animations using the assimp library.

• Added shadows to the mesh using shadow-mapping.

Particles

• Billboarded particles running on the CPU.

• Billboarded particles running on the GPU with a compute shader.

Framebuffer

• Game view draws to a framebuffer which is then displayed.

• Post-processing applied to the framebuffer; blur, scanlines and chromatic aberration.

Terrain

• Terrain loaded from a raw heightmap file.

• Randomly generating terrain using layered perlin noise.

• Texture blending over terrain based on height.

• Grass drawn in the terrain’s geometry shader based on terrain height.

Deferred Rendering

• Scene displayed using deferred rendering rather than forward rendering.

• Can easily support a large number of lights.