My educational project: usage of OpenGL & C++ with Objective-C wrapper for Mac OS X.

• 3D scene using OpenGL v4.1 and libraries: GLM, FreeImage, FreeType, Assimp.
• Drawing is based on VBO, VAO objects with several shaders of different kinds and various approaches: index drawing, by triangles, squares, etc.
• 3 types of lights: directional light, point light, spot light.
• Textures loading with FreeImage v3.17.
• Models loading with Assimp v4.0.0: .3ds, .obj files with multiple meshes and textures.
• Available scene objects: textured plain, textured box, sky box with 2 textures, loaded models, etc.
• 3 kinds of fog: lineal, exponential, bi-exponential. In addition, it uses Simplex Noise and Fractional Brownian Motion, so, the result looks fantastic!
• Normal maps are supported.
• Dynamic shadows based on Shadow Mapping.
• Time of day and Sun are implemented: see sunrises and sunsets.
• Native Mac OS control: use TrackPad to move and rotate the camera.
• Particle systems are implemented with geometry shaders.
• Terrain object is created based on height map texture.
• Textured Torus generation: you can easily create a donut, a spring, a spiral, or even a spriral spring.
• Text output implemented with FreeType v2.9.
• ScreenShots saving based on copying bytes from screen buffer and saving with native Mac OS NSBitmapImageRep.

• Arrows, W/A/S/D – move though the scene.
• Scale on TrackPad – move though the scene.
• Move on TrackPad – rotate the camera.
• Space – stop the time.
• Tab – change fog type.
• Esc – make a screenshot.
• Backspace – turn normal maps on/off.
• Enter – turn the lights on/off.
• 1/2/3/4/5/6 – change camera to views from selected light source.
• 7 – reset camera to default view.
• P – Change selected light source.

Direction of directional light depends on the day time. Sun's position and color too.

Sunrise:

Sunset:

While usual textures describe the color of an object, normal maps describe its relief, roughness. Here you can see box texture and its normal map:

Scene with normal maps:

And without normal maps:

This and this articles helped me to write the code for in-place Tangents and Cotangents calculation.

Shadows are implemented with Cube Textures. The shader has artefacts smoothing with easily editable quality. In addition, it's possible to see content of each texture:

The implementation is here: ItemMap.cpp The texture:

The results:

3 kinds of fog are implemented: lineal, exponential, bi-exponential. In addition, it uses Simplex Noise and Fractional Brownian Motion algorithms with time, distance, and output X/Y as parameters. So, the result look great! Especially during the runtime and camera moving.

The implementation is here: full.frag

My algorithm is very flexible and is capable of creation a model of any torus, srping, spiral, or a combination of them. It takes the following parameters:

• int cntin – vertices count in inner circle.
• int cntout – count of inner circles in outer circle.
• float radin – radius of inner circle.
• float radout – radius of outer circle.
• int turnscnt - count of turns.
• float addheight - additional height.
• float addwidth - additional width.
• float texin - number of textures around inner circle. Negative value means separate texture for each square.
• float texout - number of textures around outer circle. Negative value means separate texture for each square.

The implementation of the algorithm is available here: ItemTorus.cpp

Here you can see the obtained toruses with and w\o normal maps:

This algorithm was also used in my other project: Own 3D Engine (no OpenGL, just C++ & Qt)

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