CMP301 - Graphics Programming with Shaders - Final project

Module CMP301 - Graphics Programming with Shaders Description

Abertay University - 3rd year module

Module Aim

Learn skills and techniques graphics programmable pipeline, shaders, vertex manipulation, post processing, tessellation, geometry generation on GPU, per pixel lighting including shadows etc

Module Topics

1. Intro to Programmable Pipeline (Direct3D/X 11 and Shaders)
2. Sending data to GPU. Textures and Transforms
   1. Geometry and non-geometry data
   2. Registers
   3. C++ and HLSL
   4. Sampler
   5. Types of textures, texture format, shader and loading.
3. Lighting
   1. Lighting Recap (Directional, point and spotlight, ambient, diffuse and specular light; Per vertex ligthing and per pixel) & Vector Dot and Cross Product recap.
   2. Sending lighting data to the GPU
   3. Calculating lighting on the GPU
   4. Point Lights
4. Lighting 2
   1. Specular (Phong, Blinn-Phong, Gaussian distribution & Beckman distribution methods)
   2. Attenuation
   3. Multiple Lights
   4. Physical base rendering (PBR)
   5. Normal Mapping
5. Vertex Manipulation (Vertex Shader)
   1. Displacement Maps
   2. Deforming Surfaces - Creating dynamic surfaces
   3. Mesh Morphing
   4. Mesh Skinning - Animating Meshes
   5. Normal Recalculation
6. Render to Texture & Orthographic Projections
   1. Shadow Mapping
   2. Post Processing (Blur, Ambient Occlusion...)
   3. Dynamic reflection
   4. Game Mechanics - Portal, in-game camera's
   5. Deferred Rendering
   6. Multi-pass rendering
7. Post Processing using Render to Texture
   1. Post processing
   2. Multi pass rendering
   3. Blur (Box blur & Gaussian Blur)
   4. Other Post Processing effects.
      1. Camera effected: Motion blur, Glow, Bloom, Bokeh (Shallow depth of flied), Lens flare/distorsion...
      2. Colour filtering
      3. Chromatic aberration
8. Tessellation
   1. Hull Shader
   2. Tessellator
   3. Domain Shader
9. Depth Buffer and Shadow Maps
10. Geometry Shader
11. Compute Shader

Assessment

1. Weekly submitions as part of the lab work for each topic
2. Final Project at the end of the semester (own construction)

Project Description

Graphics programming with shaders final project. Includes the topics: Colour Shaders, Texturing, Lighting, Vertex Manipulation, Render to texture, post processing, tessellation, shadow maps and geometry shader.

WARNING - Project may need re-targeted to compile. Check the version of the Windows SDK.