Week 1

• Goals
  • Physics engine
• Accomplished
  • Started objects
  • Thought a lot about the physics engine
  • Created Physics class
  • Modified Car class to work with physics engine
  • Created Tire class
  • Created Collidable abstract base class
  • Made Tire inherit from Collidable
  • Created rotational models / functions
  • Began implementing physics
  • Created a Friction class
  • Created a Surface class for invisible triangles (for collision detection only)
  • Created a Garage class to store cars
  • Created abstract base classes: CollisionHandler, Updatable, Drawable, SurfaceContainer
  • Set up inheritance from those base clases
  • Physics class no longer used
  • Finished implementing physics / collision detection (not tested)
  • Finished objects

• Goals
  • Intensive testing of physics engine
  • Add support for power-ups
  • Objects
  • Parser
  • Finalize physics engine
• Accomplished
  • Added an Attitude class which inherits from Tuple and provides extra functions for Moment and Attitude physics stuff.
  • Physics engine much much improved with more-realistic physics.
  • Parser loads cars and tires and has layout done for loading tracks or whatever
  • Switching around model loaders for 3ds has led to problems. We had a working one but Ryan "fixed" it and now it doesn't work. This has absorbed a lot of my time
  • Power-ups are not yet implemented
  • Objects are more or less ready
  • Ported texture loading to SDL

• Goals
  • World Partitioning
  • User control
  • Stack based display / input control
  • A working / playable game (maybe boring though)
• Accomplished
  • Designed a QuadTree class to partition the world (simply) into 2d blocks.
  • Designed a Track class to store a given track.
  • Created a Camera class to support each of two basic views (chase and interior)
  • Was waiting for GameMemento class to do something but decided to do it myself, so now it handles timing and passes along updates to its constituents (track and car).