Exam

Virtual World Construction inside a game engine.

Virtual World Construction

DCC (Digital Content Creation) and Level Construction 
<ul><li>Content Importing and Data Parsing for Polygonal Meshes and Texture/Buffer Resources:</li><li>Texture mapping, including: Diffuse, Specular and Normal mapping.</li><li>Texture mapping implementation using shaders.</li><li>Illumination and shading model including: Rendering in nature; Introduction to Physically Based Lighting; Local Illumination vs. Global Illumination; Indirect vs. Direct Lighting; Simple BRDF-based lighting techniques.</li><li>Light sources: Point vs Area-Based light sources;</li><li>Local illumination implementation using shaders;</li><li>Level Production Stages:  Blockout Pass, Meshing Pass, Lighting and VFX Passes, Polish Passes. </li><li>Level Prototyping via First Person VR Walkthroughs.  </li><li>Level Design and Use of 3D Assets: Digital Game Content Creation Pipeline: Level Production Timeline, Roles in the Production Team</li><li>Content Importing/Exporting and Asset Management</li><li>Low vs High Poly Modelling Techniques</li><li>3D Virtual Scene Composition: Asset planning, Reusing assets, Level of Detail (LoD)</li><li>Procedural Level Generation.</li><li>Indoor and Outdoor Scenes</li><li>3D Cameras and Cinematographic Concepts</li><li>Scene Organization, Hierarchies and Relationships between different objects.</li><li>Compositing Scenes and Layering</li><li>Materials: PBR Materials and High-End Product Lighting and Rendering Material Systems and their link to GPU Shaders</li><li>Material Toolsets: Post Processing materials</li><li>Pre-Computed Lighting, Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT) for Baked Lighting</li></ul>
 Mathematical principles: 
<ul><li>Linear Algebra: Mathematical and geometric definitions of vector, Vectors vs. Points, Vector additions, subtraction, and multiplications, Vector dot product and cross product, unit vector, Transforms and Matrices.</li><li>Applying these concepts in 3D space. - 3D Coordinate space: Euclidean Geometry, 3D Cartesian Coordinates. Affine and coordinate system transformations. - Theory of rotation in 3D and its implementation:</li><li>Normal vector calculations. Theory of viewing and projection in 3D and their implementation: - View Matrix - Orthographic and Perspective Projection. - Projection matrix.</li><li>Introduction to Programmable Graphics Pipeline using GPU Shaders: - Pipeline Stages. - Local, World, View and Screen Spaces.</li><li>Polygonal representation: - Polygon Meshes: Vertices, Edge and Faces, Graphics primitives, Indexed triangle mesh, surface normal. Buffer formations and Topologies.</li></ul>

World Design for Virtual Reality - 7149COMP

World Design for Virtual Reality

Critically evaluate the state-of-art graphics processes employed in modern Virtual Reality development.

Compose 3D scenes using real-time rendering technique for complex 3D geometry using both physically based global illumination schemes.

Solve complex problems in 3D graphics for Virtual Reality, using appropriate mathematical concepts.

Make informed and critical decisions regarding the visual material schemes, cinematographic effects and lighting to construct a believable, immersive virtual space.

Demonstrate a deep and systemic understanding of the fundamental techniques underpinning virtual world construction and scene composition.