ball-and-stick-man

A homework for Computer Graphics class

Features

• Adjustable joints for arms, forearms and legs
• Wave and walk in-place (with ease)
• Walk around
• Camera rotation and elevation (with auto-adjusting focus spot)

Controls

Movement

                        Forward
                           |
              Left arm     |     Right arm
                     |     |     |
    Left forearm     |     |     |     Right forearm     Camera up
               |     |     |     |     |                    |
            *-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*              *-----*
            |  Q  |  W  |  E  |  R  |  T  |              |  ▲  |
            *-----*-----*-----*-----*-----*        *-----*-----*-----*
                  |  S  |  D  |  F  |              |  ◀︎  |  ▼  |  ►  |
                  *-----*-----*-----*              *-----*-----*-----*
                     |     |     |                    |     |     |
                  Left     |      Right     Camera left     |     Camera right
                           |                                |
                       Backward                        Camera down

Toggle the caps to reverse the effect.

Animations

• Left-click mouse: Switch between walking modes
• Right-click mouse: Toggle waving

Requirements

• glut

Instructions for Windows/Visual Studio

• Download glut and place its files into those paths:

  File	Location
  glut32.h	C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include
  glut32.lib	C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\VC\Auxiliary\VS\lib\x86
  glut32.dll	C:\Windows\SysWOW64

• Build the code from Visual Studio

Instructions for Mac

• Mac has glut already. Compile and run the code with command below:

  g++ -o ball-and-stick-man.o src/main.cpp -framework GLUT -framework OpenGL -std=c++11 -Wno-c++11-narrowing
  ./ball-and-stick-man.o
  

License

GNU General Public License v3.0
Read the LICENSE file for details