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Robert the shipbuilder needs help building a spaceship. He'd like a way to visualize his designs so that he can see how the parts fit together. Mars Shipyard has given him a grant to have work done on a spaceship visualizer for his work.



The model of our Millennium Falcon. Used 3dsMax to model the shapes Imaged above is the model in 3DSMax

Robert the shipbuilder needs help building a spaceship. He'd like a way to visualize his designs so that he can see how the parts fit together. Mars Shipyard has given him a grant to have work done on a spaceship visualizer for his work.

The visualizer will contain a model of a spaceship with multiple parts. Moving the cursor over parts of the model moves the outer layers of the model away such that the insides are exposed (this is called "exploding" the drawing, from drafting jargon). First the outer shell layer will "explode" outwards, to allow the chassis and internals to be revealed. Then, as the cursor moves closer to specific subsystems, those subsystems will move away or reorient themselves so that other systems or the chassis are revealed underneath them. This allows the user to see how the parts fit together.

Rendering effects:

Toon shading
Shadow mapping

Artist efforts overview:

We will be using some non-photorealistic rendering effects to achieve this look. We used 3dsMax to draw the individual ship components and export obj files to load as meshes into the viewer.

Movements: Clicking and dragging the mouse will rotate the view (as per the trackball code we've already written in this course). Pressing 'z' and 'x' will zoom the model (fixed on the center of the model rather than the cursor) to reveal higher detail.


Here is the ship with multiple parts moved away to expose the insides and frame of the ship.


Other Notes:


We'll be demoing this project on Friday December 3rd, 2010 in CSE 1202 after 3pm.

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