features
Although t3d now is
a university project, I did not start it as such. I began working on t3d
purely for fun. My first objective was to learn more on programming and
on 3D concepts. For that reason, I do not have any final objective to
this project and I could go on adding features indefinitely.
I am now looking however for some specific goal to accomplish with that
software. Ideally, I would like to orient it in biomedical applications,
but I am open to any !
Currently implemented features:
- Creation of basic primitives: spheres, cubes, cylinders, etc
- Creation of superellipsoids
- Creation of lights: omni, spotlight, directional
- Variable object mesh precision
- Manipulation of object properties: color, visible, name, etc
- Manipulation of object materials
- Basic object manipulation: translation, scaling, rotation
- 2 viewing modes: 4 equal viewports or 1 large and 3 mini viewports
- View panning and zooming
September 3rd 2002 :
- Rotations using world coordinates - implemented with quaternions
- Global deformations module - adds a list of modifiable global transformations for each object
- Deformations implemented: twisting, bending, tapering, ripple
- Fixed scaling transformation
- Fixed superellipsoid artifacts with backface culling
- Fixed a viewport bug which could cause a crash in certain circumstances
Features to be implemented:
- Local deformations module: per-vertex manipulations using pre-defined tools
- Definable elasticity coefficients between vertices
- Bump mapping
- Vertex painting
- Creation of cameras
- Textures
Features under consideration:
- Undo/Redo
- Boolean operations
- Creation of 3D objects from 2D shapes
- Radiosity renderer
- Particles system
Known bugs pending destruction:
- Selection problem in large viewport when in alternate viewport configuration
- Bending not implemented in y and z
- Surface tesselation on a rippled object causes
spikes
