Kyle Conroy Gray

Starfighter

The objective of StarFighter is to fly and blast through asteroids and space debris, making it to the end of the level with a high score. The ship is controlled entirely with the mouse. Lasers are fired by clicking the mouse button. The ship can also launch bombs by holding down the mouse button and releasing it after at least half a second. The longer the mouse button is held down, the further the bomb travels. Bombs are detonated by pressing the space bar.

Features

  • animation and UI using OpenGL and GLUT
  • detailed collision detection, optimized using object-aligned bounding boxes/spheres and kd-trees
  • ray tracing technique used to fire lasers/missiles
  • gravity-affected, bounce-able projectile simulation with balls
  • mouse controlled x/y thrust
  • level input file parsing to construct world, using OBJ output of objects designed in Maya

Libraries Used

Group:

  • Long Cheng cs184-cy
  • Kyle Conroy cs184-cz
  • Jillian Moore cs184-cx
  • Wei Yeh cs184-df

Hosted on Github http://github.com/kyleconroy/starfighter

Binary

Snow Leopard Only: /data/starfighter

Video

Quicktime had some problems. It didn't record the sound effects and created some bad flashing artifacts (seen in the first video)

Images

Compilation

Use make resulting executable is named starfighter

Usage

./starfighter -f levelListFile

Input File Spec

The input file is a level list with pairs

level highScore

separated by newlines. <level>.level refers to the level file in the same directory.

A level file consists of geometry definitions and model definitions.

Level File Spec

Some entries have options [option1 | option2]

Loading a .obj mesh

{
    objgeometry #
    name unique-name # must be a unique name
    path path/to/file # relative path
    bs [box | sphere] # sets the bounding shape, default is box
    boundingsphere x y z r # explicitly sets the bounding sphere
    boundingsphere x y z x y z # explicitly sets the bounding box
}

A sample level file can be found here

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