HW3 - 3D Viewing and Shaders

COSC4370  HW3 - 3D Viewing and Shaders

1 Introduction
In this assignment, we will practice 3D viewing and dive a little more deeply into OpenGL by implementing
the Phong shader model.
2 Setup
Since this homework assignment is more complicated than the last, you will need a few libraries installed on
your system: GLUT (which you should have already installed for HW2), GLEW, GLFW, and GLM.
On Ubuntu/Debian, first run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:keithw/glfw3 in order to add a repository containing the GLFW3 library.
On Ubuntu and other Linux variants, these libraries can be installed with a one-liner at the terminal: sudo
apt-get install libglew-dev libglfw3-dev libglm-dev . (Note: on some Linux variants, the package names might
end in devel rather than dev; check your distribution’s package database to find the correct package.)
On OS X: GLEW: If you have Homebrew installed, you can run brew install glew, or if you have Macports, you can run sudo port install glew +universal and sudo port install libsdl +universal . GLFW: If you
have Homebrew installed, you can run brew install glfw3 . With Macports, you can run sudo port install
glfw . GLM: If you have Homebrew installed, you can run brew install glm . With Macports, you can run
sudo port install glm .
On Windows: You can download GLEW from https://sourceforge.net/projects/glew/files/glew/1.13.0/ (select the download that ends in win32.zip) and GLFW from http://www.glfw.org/download.html (you will
most likley want the 64-bit Windows binaries). The header-only (no compilation necessary) GLM library
can be downloaded from https://github.com/g-truc/glm/releases. In your Visual Studio project, you will
need to add the appropriate include directories and library directories for each of these libraries. Some help
with this can be found at http://www.41post.com/5178/programming/opengl-configuring-glfw-and-glew-invisual-cplusplus-express.
3 Compiling and Running the Code
For Linux and OS X, we have included a Makefile that will automatically compile the homework, assuming you
have the correct libraries installed. Just run make in a terminal. The program that is generated is named hw3.
On Windows, you can use Visual Studio in the usual way to compile and run your program.
Note that the files needed for compilation include main.cpp, Camera.h, and Shader.h. Your vertex and
fragment shader files are loaded by OpenGL at runtime; you do not need to compile them with the other
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files.
Note that the program takes no command line arguments etc. - you can just compile and run.
4 The Main Assignment
The goal of this assignment is to implement the 3D viewing, Phong shading model and shaders. You will write
the vertex and fragment shaders for the Phong model to shade a simple cube, whose geometry is constructed
in main.cpp. We also offer two facilitating files: camera.h and shader.h. You need to produce similar images
in the following figure:
• image which is only rendered by using ambient light
• image which is only rendered by using diffuse light
• image which is only rendered by using specular light
• image which is rendered by a complete phong shading model
Also, you need to finish code in Camera.h and main.cpp. In main.cpp, you need to generate all uniform
paramters (you need to find those parameters out, such as cube color, light color and etc. ) for your
shader and pass them into shaders, please review materials of lecture ”Opengl and Github”. Also, similar to
homework 2, please complete MVP (model view projection) matrix and pass them into your shaders (rotate
your cube by using Model matrix).
5 Assignment Requirement
Submit all deliverables to your Github reporsitory.
• Code for your shaders (phong.vs and phong.frag)
• Camera.h and main.cpp
• 4 images.
• details report. Please explain as detail as possible.
6 Academic Integrity
We have detected some of you submited very similar homeworks. Please finish your homework independently.
A zero point will be assigned if we find you copy each other. If you refer from a source, you need to attach
the link in the report.
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