Final presentation saswat, venkat, vivek, vaibhav, jian, revant

...back in the beginning It was ambitious

 3D racing/combat game  Mono wheel vehicle  Offensive/defensive weapons ▪ Missiles ▪ Turrets ▪ Spikes  3 game modes ▪ death match ▪ races ▪ style Networking Motion blur Dynamic lighting … Networking Motion blur Dynamic lighting …

 Open source graphics engine  Networking  Physics  Race mode  Frame rates  Game Architecture  3D art But.. We survived

 Irrlicht  Hacked code to get features we wanted  Recompiled source  Profiled and optimized packages  Were at mercy of open source forums  Poor documentation  EMT_LIGHTMAP_LIGHTING  EMT_LIGHTMAP_LIGHTING_M2  EMT_LIGHTMAP_LIGHTING_M4

 Lost / out of order packets  Synchronize state of game objects  LAN server discover  Efficient serialization ▪ Use cheap bit masks ▪ Update only when necessary ▪ Works over wifi  Non linear development  Did not decide on networking initially

 Interpolate between messages  Prevent ‘jumping’ t = 0 t = 1

 Networking meant more work in other areas ▪ Who died and who killed? ▪ Did the missile hit? ▪ Game states ▪ Lobby UI ▪ Networked sound ▪ In-game chat ▪ …

 Why the wheel was hard ▪ PhysX’s uses a vertical RayCast wheel model ▪ Collision only at the vertical y contact point ▪ No wheel-wheel collision re-invented The wheel re-invented The wheel

 Our wheel implementation  Additional shapes for collision response ▪ 2 cylinders and 1 box  Carful grouping of all game objects .. And a lot of debugging ▪ To a point where we almost gave up the idea

 Anisotropic friction model for Skid  Based on a piecewise cubic Hermite spline.  Varies with speed and tire pressure

 ‘Tunneling’  Go through walls at high speeds  Implemented custom CCD [continuous collision detection]  Visual debugging  Keep graphics and physics world in sync

 20 fps ▪ Octree for each mesh ▪ Careful level design ▪ Prioritizable update loop  Custom implementation

 C++ Pointers, types, network packets, sound, physics, aghhh  Our solution: ▪ A reusable game engine ▪ abstracts networking, physics and graphics ▪ Fairly extendible ▪ Game play programmers only worry about game level details ▪ Planning to release as open source

 Is player A ahead of player B? ▪ Update rankings in real time ▪ Cool wave points system ▪ Adaptive interpolation algorithm  Race AI [may be scraped] ▪ Non deterministic, yet intelligent ▪ Follow vehicle physics

 Nobody had done 3D art before  Our external artist got busy  Did the wheel mesh, UI  We Learnt 3D design tools  Textured each triangle  Realistic Light mapped environment  Dynamic lighting !!

 Smooth content pipeline 