Path forward

[Innoviox]

for improvement that I wrote down after the ESS test:

Things to do:

1. Fix HUD
2. Make sky prettier with ambient lighting
3. Implement optimizations & render a landscape
4. Collide with the landscape. Basic motion "game"
5. Generate a large world
6. Fully implement different lights.
7. Scene: Skybox, a house next to a road, a streetlight that throws light on the road and the house, a moving sun in the sky. Day and night.
8. Animation: A person walks down the street while the sun moves overhead. Can go into the house; door opens and closes.

Ideas for restructuring and improvement

• Facilitate Item creation
  Item I = new Item(modelFile, textureFile)
.setScale(...)
.setPosition(...)
.setRotation(...);

• Add object that moves with Camera ==> TiedItem extends Item implements Tieable

• CollidableItem implements Tieable

• Camera implements Tieable

• PseudoMesh: a mesh that doesn't render

UML for TiedItem

• Tieable t

• TiedItem(Tieable t, String modelFile, String textureFile)
• update

Restructure item package
item
interfaces => Tieable, Collidable
model => Material, Texture, Mesh
lighting => Light, ...
Item, CollidableItem, TiedItem, ...

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1. ✅
2. ✅
3. Enabled back-face culling. Further optimizations:

• Make a Mesh Map, then render based on map.get(mesh).getItems() instead of iterating through the entire item loop each time.

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3. ✅