Shooter In The House Game in OpenGL

Project		GWU CS185 2004 Final Project
		First Person Shooter Game Enhencement: Yodas In The House
Instructor		Dr. James K. Hahn
Assistant		Sang-Joon Lee
Code written by		Grace E. Cho
Documentation written by		Grace E. Cho
Created in		December 2004

Object of the Game

Game Scene Set-Up

Some rooms have one door, some do two. There is a corridor between some rooms, but some rooms are adjacent to each other by a wall, sometimes with a door. In each room, there is a target. In this game, a target is represented by yoda (yoda.d). All targets face a door and located in the middle of the room.

The shooter can wonder around freely as long as he doesn't collide with any game objects. These include rooms, walls, and targets.

(Unfortunately, Geocities does not allow an executable to be downloaded. Please email me to obtain the executable.)

Implementation Methods

Enhencement

• New Classes
  Create class representing rooms, walls, and wall sections. (A wall consists of three wall sections. This is to make it simple to handle a door.)
  Create class representing lights and materials


• OOP
  All game objects are instances of GeomObject class and its derived classes. Common functionalities are implemented in the super clas, GeomObject.


• Use of Input Data Files
  Specification of game objects (incl. walls and rooms) and lights are defined in input data files (ascii).


• Representation of the shooter
  Shooter is represented by the gun hole which he is holding. (gun_hole_small.d)


• Representation of the bullet
  Bullet is represented by a ball (better_ball.d)


• Texture
  All walls and rooms are attached with textures. The images are in targa image format.


• Material
  All game objects (incl. walls and rooms) use materials.


• When a target (yoda) is shot
  The target turn red, shrinks in half, fall back, and fall down.


• When all targets are down
  All targets will resurrect in the half size so that it would be more difficult to shot.


• View Opition
  User can choose between normal view and far views. There are six far views available: front, back, top, bottom, right, left. The size of the shooter (i.e., the gun hole) is enlarged for the better view. In a far view, all outer walls are removed.
  (At some location, it is not clear where the shooter is located, especially, when the shooter is collided and is not able to move farther. Use the top view to locate the shooter, and try various movement to free the shooter.)


• Resete Functionality
  User can reset the position of the shooter to the original position.

How To Play

List of Key Commands for Shooter Movement
(Use the keys above with SHIFT key to multiply move step by 5).

ARROW UP		Move a step forward
ARROW DOWN		Move a step backward
ARROW LEFT		Turn counter-clock-wise one unit
ARROW RIGHT		Turn clock-wise one unit
HOME		Turn counter-clock-wise 90 degrees
END		Turn clock-wise 90 degrees
PAGE UP		Move straight upward
PAGE DOWN		Move straight downward
INSERT		Toggle passive mouse motion option

List of Key Commands for Shooting and Exiting the Game

ENTER or space bar		Fire the gun
ESC		Quit the game

Use of Mouse

Left Button Pressed Down		While the left button is down: Move the mouse forward to move the shooter forward; Move the mouse backward to move the shooter backward.
Right Button Pressed Down		While the right button is down: Move the mouse to the left to turn the shooter counter-clock-wise; Move the mouse to the right to turn the shooter clock-wise.
When passive mouse motion is enabled (use INSERT key)		While no button is pressed down: Move the mouse to the left to turn the shooter counter-clock-wise; Move the mouse to the right to turn the shooter clock-wise; Move the mouse to the left to turn the shooter counter-clock-wise; Move the mouse to the right to turn the shooter clock-wise.

Additional Key Commands
Following keys are mainly for the debug purpose or to get a better view of the the shooter position.

F1		Get the far front view
F2		Get the far right-side view
F3		Get the far back view
F4		Get the far left-side view
F5		Get the far top view
F6		Get the far bottom view
F12		Return to the normal near view
`r'		Reset shooter position
`w'		Toggle draw walls option - use only for the near view
`s'		Use larger shooter mark - use only for the far view
`0'~'7'		Turn on light0 to 7, respectively
`0'~'7' with SHIFT key		Turn off light0 to 7, respectively

Questions and comments to Grace E. Cho