Woah!

Things are definitely starting to get interesting now.. It's been an especially difficult week, starting with Introduction to 3D Graphics, were we were given a lecture about virtual cameras, and how to define one. We had a look at orientation (such as roll pitch and yaw, and referencing back to our rotation matrix we had made previously to achieve the desired rotation. We looked at Location, where my translation class shall come in handy and projection, which was especially tricky to grasp, and am still working on.



I've also been working through some Console Development work, paying special attention to branching and looping in MIPS. Below is a program i made that adds 1 + 2 + 3 + .... 100.

##Program that computes the sum 1 + 2 + 3 + ... 99 + 100
##
.text
.globl main

main:
ori $8,$0,1 ## sum
ori $9,$0,2 ## counter
ori $10,$0,101 ## number of iterations

loop:

beq $9,$10,exit ## goes to exit if counter is the same as number of iterations
sll $0,$0,0 ## sponge for excess machine cycles

add $8,$8,$9 ## adding the counter to the sum
addi $9,$9,1 ## add 1 to the counter

j loop ## back to loop
sll $0,$0,0 ## sponge for excess machine cycles

exit:
sll $0,$0,0

you can see here that the final answer is put in register 8



(13BA In decimal format is equal to 5050).

In Games Development Techniques we have been assigned to make a mini game for our map, which could come in useful for our final project. I'll be looking into the pickup class and interaction class in particular this week to make my mini-game. Ill post once i have completed it =D.