Program 3 - Lighting

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This assignment is due on Monday 2/26.

Objectives: learn about shading, including the difference between Gouraud, Phong and a silhouette shader. Create a program that can set up a scene with multiple meshes with different material properties on the two different meshes.

You may start with any of the prior code to read in an .obj mesh (that is specified on the command line). Note that your program must compute the normals for the input mesh - even for a mesh with normals provided, you must compute the normals. Your code will be tested on files that do not include normals, so your code must deal with this!

Steps

Step 1:

Read in and display two copies of a mesh (one slightly rotated). Write code to compute normals for the mesh. Start with a normal per face and then compute the weighted average normal per vertex of all neighboring face normals. While debugging, use the shader we used for P2B, which displayed the normal of the mesh as a color. Make sure that your computed normal look reasonable! When toggling through the shaders using the p key (see Step #4), the normal should be displayed with this original coloring.

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Step 2:

You will also need to add code to specify lighting in your world. Your program should have at least one light source at a reasonable position Please have at least one light start at that is white .

Allow the user to change the position of the light using the keyboard. specifically if the user presses the q key the light should move to the left and when the user presses the e key the light should move to the right. All lighting should be done via your GLSL shaders.

Also switch to a perspective projection matrix by replacing the P->ortho call with a P->perspective call.

Step 3:

Next add support to allow the meshes to be drawn as smooth shaded (Gouraud) shading. Implement the shading by computing and setting a color per vertex in your vertex shader. Your shading should include diffuse, specular and ambient lighting. Gouraud shading should be implemented in one shader pair.

Make sure that both your view vector and normal vector are in world space.

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Step 4:

Next implement the full Phong shading via a fragment shader, that is the normals are interpolated across the face and shading is computed per pixel. The p key should allow the user to toggle between the various shading models. Be sure to toggle between the different shaders by toggling between programs on the CPU.

Make sure that both your view vector and normal vector are in world space. Also be sure to normalize your normals after interpolation (i.e. before using them in the fragment shader)!

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Step 5:

Next, write a silhouette shader, that draws the “outline edges” of the mesh. You will do this, by coloring all fragments white, except for those that have a normal that is almost perpendicular to the eye vector (see below image, which illustrates the eye vector and the output of a silhouette shader).

Make sure that both your view vector and normal vector are in world space.

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Step 6:

You will need a way to specify different materials for the mesh (which will control its shading). Three default materials will be provided - you must include these in your implementation these as your lighting results will be compared against these. You will need to add another material that you find interesting. Provide support to toggle through all four of the different material via the m key.

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Step 7:

Add basic mesh transforms such that the r key will rotate the meshes around the Y axis.

Controls

In summary, your code needs to support:

Materials to use – something like:

void SetMaterial(int i) {
  switch (i) {
  case 0: // shiny blue plastic
    glUniform3f(prog->getUniform("MatAmb"), 0.02, 0.04, 0.2);
    glUniform3f(prog->getUniform("MatDif"), 0.0, 0.16, 0.9);
    glUniform3f(prog->getUniform("MatSpec"), 0.14, 0.2, 0.8);
    glUniform1f(prog->getUniform("shine"), 120.0);
    break;
  case 1: // flat grey
    glUniform3f(prog->getUniform("MatAmb"), 0.13, 0.13, 0.14);
    glUniform3f(prog->getUniform("MatDif"), 0.3, 0.3, 0.4);
    glUniform3f(prog->getUniform("MatSpec"), 0.3, 0.3, 0.4);
    glUniform1f(prog->getUniform("shine"), 4.0);
    break;
  case 2: // brass
    glUniform3f(prog->getUniform("MatAmb"), 0.3294, 0.2235, 0.02745);
    glUniform3f(prog->getUniform("MatDif"), 0.7804, 0.5686, 0.11373);
    glUniform3f(prog->getUniform("MatSpec"), 0.9922, 0.941176, 0.80784);
    glUniform1f(prog->getUniform("shine"), 27.9);
    break;
  }
}

Grading

When not specified exactly, you must make reasonable design choices to support the necessary functionality for the program.

Point breakdown (a completely functional program is worth 100 points total):