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Flocker - New Version
Sunday, August 15, 2010 at 4:24PM I have been having a lot of fun with LUA lately, expanding the Flocker program to create a better 3D display experience. :)
Get the latest version here.
Updates and additions in this version include:
- Added configurability of 8 lights covering the gamut of OpenGL controls, including diffuse, ambient, and specular colors, and omnidirectional light position (directional-at-infinity lights are not yet enabled). You also can choose to make any omnidirectional light a spot source and set its direction, beam width, etc.
- Expanded the bird avatar to use 3D geometry and surface material properties.
- Added preconfigured, programmatic generation of bird placement (accessed through the menu).
- Added independent load, save, and delete of lighting configurations.
- Updated tooltips and added some help buttons that open Wikipedia pages describing the topic.
- Extended the bird-space partitioning to 3D (a performance enhancement for flocking calculations).
- Updated LuaGL to version 1.4 so I could use some additional GLUT functions.
- Factored the OpenGL related code out into a separate module.
Note: the OpenGL Testing tab is just there for fun. You can watch it but not interact with it. :)
-Eric