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** Completion Time: 3 - 4 days **

A1 features implemented:

• Skydome (replacing sky plane)
• Multi-texturing
• Terrain
• Fog
• Sprite Animation
• Instancing
• Water graphics (oops, supposed to be for A2)

A2 features implemented:

• Billboarding (regular method and shader method)
• Directional light shadows
• Spotlight shadows (works but not in the right way)
• Solved shadow acne with shadow bias
• Solved Peter Panning with front-face culling
• Soft shadows using Percentage-Closer Filtering (PCF)
• HDR rendering
• Bloom with Gaussian blur
• 3 particle systems (Rain, Smoke, Swirl)
• Object pooling
• Custom colour and opacity for particles
• Batch rendering (all particles are rendered with 1 draw call)

Other stuff done:

• Self-written framework and shaders
• No warnings (excluding files from external libraries), errors and memory leaks
• Simple terrain collision
• Terrain normals
• Rendering of terrain normals with a geometry shader
• Ray casting (for quads only)
• Object outlining with stencil buffer
• Dynamic environment mapping (works but not in the right way)
• Post-processing effects
• Camera movement and camera zoom with mouse
• Use of texture maps on models
• Blinn-Phong reflection model
• Gamma correction

Controls:

• ESC: End programme
• SPACE: Show or hide terrain normals
• ENTER: Change fog type
• WASD: Move camera forward, left, backward and right respectively
• Q and E: Move camera up and down respectively
• R: Reset camera
• 1: Toggle face culling
• 2: Cycle polygon modes
• 3: Change post-processing effects
• Left Mouse Button (LMB): Move camera towards target
• Right Mouse Button (RMB): Move camera away from target/Put out fire of campfire when camera is pointing at it
• Mouse scroll wheel: Zoom