nathan-franck/octopusteacher

Fork of Wicked Engine to update my C++ skills and make a fun little octopus demo

Octopus Teacher

Forked From Wicked Engine

Objectives

• Provide myself a crash-course in modern C++ programming techniques and the latest and greatest in rendering
• Make a cool little octopus demo

Progress Milestones

9/7/2021

• Adapting spider walking algorithm to work with tentacles, retargetting animations blend together so tentacles never appear too snappy

9/2/2021

• Setting initial targets for each tentacle, and moving octopus transform using translator...

8/28/2021

• Due to how models were imported, the main transform of the octopus model was being given a local_scale.z of -1, which aggrevated the quaternion math for deriving the orientation of the tentacle needed to reach the target. Now fixed using matrix math fully, works when octopus is in any orientation!

8/21/2021

• Updated model with subsurface reference material, more tentacle bones, and a bit of webbing

• Naive tentacle script to curl bones around target point - doesn't yet aim towards target, just matches distance

• Code necessary to aim tentale's root bone towards the target, from global to local-bone-space, works great --- except it's requiring using a magic value to reverse the z-axis? Something smells...

• Single tentacle targetting point great! Easily generalize to all tentacles

8/19/2021

• Adding new components member to existing wiScene to allow for generic component retrievable functions

• Using more ergonomic query system (c++20 is fun!) to get the octopus tentacles out into new vectors for use in procedural animation

• Simple animation to move newly gathered octopus appendages!

• Import and integrate existing Translator tool from the Editor project to allow for playing with objects during game execution

• Now with new translator inside the executable, I can successfully have the octopus wear the teapot. Finally.

8/18/2021

• Created a simple octopus model in Blender rigged with some tentacle bones

• Exported as .GLB and am able to view in the existing Wicked Engine - Editor

• Went through simple tutorial for setting up 2D and 3D rendering, modify somewhat to allow for strobe lights