TSBK07 Computer Graphics

Latest news:

120202: Lab 2 is finished. Many late changes, make sure you have a fresh download. Some Mac and Microsoft support code on the main lab page. Lab 1 is slightly modified, which I hope will help those of you who had problems.

120201: Lab 2 is coming. The first parts are written, more will come, and there are titles for all parts hinting on what we will do.

120131: Lecture plan partially updated, so at least the parts we have had conform with reality, and I try to predict how the material fits the later lectures, but that is only an approximation.

120126: Lab 1 was, as I feared, pretty time-consuming. There is a lot to learn, especially when trying out shaders for the first time. Part of that was that it is brand new, so there were some errors (many of them already corrected). Also, I think I should have encouraged you to come more prepared. But it is also an effect of having to go more head-first into the subject, with many things to learn before it gets exciting. The balance between the tough and the interesting is always hard but I am confident that this will all pay off in the end. We will be looking into the level of future labs, possibly with more non-mandatory parts to offer you exciting things without making it tough for those who run into problems.

120126: The lab material for today is pretty much finished. Please note that the evening lecture on friday is the GameJam introductions, starting at 16, not 15. I expect the speech by Wemotion AB to be the one of most general interest, at 17. I will give a short speech before that about making games on tight schedules.

120125: Much of the lab material is now ready. Some details remain but now it should be workable.

120124: A first draft for the lab material is up for testing. If you are a student, you are welcome to start if you like, but please understand that the later parts are incomplete, to be finished later.

120124: Guest lecture friday evening! Even if you don't have time to attend the whole LiU Game Jam, you are welcome to the guest lecture from Wemotion at Vallfarten at 17:00 on friday. The whole event starts at 16, with event instructions, and after the Wemotion guest lecture we will start the brainstorming. You are welcome to take part as you see fit.

120121: Uploaded PDFs for lecture 1 to 3 (not very long - these are whiteboard intensive lectures) plus a set of simple OpenGL 3.2 demos in the demo folder.

120119: The course book is available now at Bokakademin, for a fair 230 crowns - even less than the previous edition! Also, we co-organise the LiU Game Jam game design event, for which the web page is up here. It is early in the course but I still recommend you to consider participating, possibly with simpler tools than the one I teach here.

120116: The course book is finished and sent for printing. I hope that it will be available before the second lecture.

120114: Welcome to the 2012 course! As you might know, the course book is not yet at Bokakademin, because I am working on this year's pretty significant changes. The big news is that we switch to OpenGL 3.2 this year, which is a pretty challenging move which I hope will be for the better. This will also cause some changes in the lectures and pretty significant changes in the labs.

110620: 19 days after the exam, you have a reason to ask when it is finished. Due to the holiday right after the exam (6 days delay!), it is hardly strictly delayed yet, rather due right about now, and it is almost finished. I am on the last checks. I can't finish it today but surely tomorrow.