Angler Fish

Last updated on June 26, 2007 - 11:54

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This is one of the first stand alone projects that I created using my MiME 3D graphics engine. It features an angler fish model loaded into the scenegraph from my custom model format along with three separate lights; a point light in the angle's light pod, a directional light shining up towards the front of the model and another directional light coming from behind and to the top left. All texturing, material and lighting effects were done using GLSL shader programs.

Amongst other things the project features the following:

• Config file parsing for window creation
• Loading of custom internal model format for separate model components
• Various types of lighting
• GLSL shader effects (normal mapping using gloss maps and phong lighting shaders)
• Sharing of shaders and textures between similar surfaces/materials
• Pre-render material based sorting for optimised rendering

The screenshots of the demo don't really do it any justice, so I have provided an executable for download so you can play about with it yourself. The demo requires OpenGL 2.0 support and Shader Model 3.0. I haven't got any tests in there for these requirements and have only been able to test the demo on my laptop so have no clue what will happen if your card doesn't support it...any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Finally, I would like to point out that I didn't make the angler fish model but it is copyright© Nick Cooper and was obtained for free from 3D Total's website.

Downloads:

 Angler Fish Demo v1.1 (2.88 mb)