This page contains materials for the practice lessons of the Hardware for Computer Graphics (NPGR019) course that is/has been taught during summer term 2014/2015 at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. The course official web page is/was to be found here. The lecturer is/was Jozef Pelikan. The practice lessons (workshops) are/were (mainly) backed up by Jakub Gemrot.

Tuesdays's workshops, 10:40, SW1, Jakub Gemrot: gemrot@gamedev.cuni.cz

You will have to experiment with OpenGL at home by doing assignments that will be associated with every workshop. You do not need to solve all of them, see assignments & scoring. Note that you may receive BONUS points for finishing assignments on time!

You will need to gather at least N points in order to be admitted to final exam. Moreover, if you gather at least M points, you will receive bonus points during exam (10%) and if you manage to gather at least P points, you will receive even more bonus points (25% total).

OpenGL 3.3 Tutorials we're going to follow

OpenGL 3.3 Reference

GLSL 3.3 Specification

OpenGL Superbible Book

• note that Sixth edition is about OpenGL 4.3 so it does not apply to our workshops directly
• you might be interested in Fifth edition instead OpenGL Superbible Book previous versions
  • right, there are no “download links” there … hmmmmmm

DirectX Tutorials - paid

• First 5 or so tutorials are free, good place start as it takes you through the first steps of D3D initialization

DirectX Tutorials - free

• Many tutorials from the basic to complex ones

Workshop 7 - (PPTX), (PDF) (19.5.2015)

• DirectX Introduction
• Example projects

Workshop 6 - (PPTX), (PDF) (28.4.2015)

• OpenGL 3.3 Tutorial - Part 6
  • Billboards + Particles + Object Clicking (via hack)
• Assignment
  • Create a simple clicking game!
  • Up-to 15+2 points

Workshop 5 - (PPTX), (PDF) (28.4.2015)

• OpenGL 3.3 Tutorial - Part 5
  • Shadow mapping
• Assignment
  • Provide “spot light” shadow mapping + blending two light sources
  • Visualize shadow maps
  • Up-to 10+2 points

Workshop 4 - (PPTX), (PDF) (7.4.2015 / 14.4.2015)

• OpenGL 3.3 Tutorial - Part 4
  • Normal mapping (bump mapping), Rendering to texture (screen effects)
• Assignments
  • Provide calculation of TBN matrix from C++ instead of doing in VS
  • Provide rendering from multiple viewpoints + create own custom effect (go wild!)
  • Up-to 15+4 points

Workshop 3 - (PPTX), (PDF) (24.3.2015 / 31.3.2015)

• OpenGL 3.3 Tutorial - Part 3
  • Textured cube and different magnifying / minifying options
  • VBO indexing and instanced rendering
• Assigments
  • Regarding glDrawElementsInstanced … you might find following thread helpful
  • Up-to 15+4 points

Workshop 2 - (PPTX), (PDF) (10.3.2015 / 17.3.2015)

• OpenGL 3.3 Tutorial - Part 2
  • Standard shading, Playing out with fragment shaders and lights
  • You should review Phong lightning model (in Czech by Jozef Pelikán)
• Assigments
  • See slides
    • Standard Shading
  • Up-to 25+9 points
• Spoiler / Hint for 2.4
  • Why you have to treat vertex normal transformation differently when computing Normal_cameraspace for non-uniform matrices? Explained here

Workshop 1 - (PPTX), (PDF) (24.2.2015 / 3.3.2015)

• OpenGL 3.3 Tutorial - Part 1
  • Setting up OpenGL Tutorial Projects
  • Triangles, Cubes, Models
  • Standard shading, Adjusting fragment shaders
• Assigments
  • See slides
    • Sierpinsky triangle, Animated Sierpinsky Triangle, Cube Madness
  • Up-to 15+6 points