CS 3600

Programming Assignment #9 - Chess Animation

Objectives:

• Design a chess board.
• Load and use graphical data from a file.
• Use transformation commands to get chess pieces in the right place.
• Use lighting.
• Create an animation.
• Use Display Lists

Assignment Specifications:

• Design your own chess board.
• Pick a nice vantage point for the camera.
• Get the files from the web site containing polygon descriptions of the chess pieces.
• Place all chess pieces correctly on the board, both white and black.
• Place a light in the scene.
• Animate the first 6 moves of a chess game, including a piece capture.
• Draw all pieces using Display Lists.

Grading:

• Designing your own board gets you 50 of 100 points. Ten of those points are given only if the board looks really good.
• Getting all the pieces correctly on the board, and correctly colored, and correctly lighted, gets you another 25 points.
• Your final 25 points comes from the animation. You get 20 of them if your animation is smooth and looks good. The last 5 depends on how you animate a piece capture. Be creative.