Computer Graphics II - Cubemaps & Reflections
Second Homework - Sky using cubemaps and reflective surfaces Hello everyone, welcome to the second post in our series. We'll continue with our journey of implementing and investigating common computer graphics concepts. This time we'll take a look at the second homework of CENG469, Computer Graphics II course at METU of 2022-2023, which was about implementing skyboxes, and reflective surfaces. For this homework, we were tasked with implementing reflections, and a skybox that samples from special textures which are 6 sided, just like a cube. Even though my main goal was to create something aesthetically pleasing from the beginning, you can see that it failed horribly by the end. But I have learned a lot, and now have a plan for the future, but that's a story for another time. For now, let's begin delving into this homework, shall we? The Game It wasn't just a plain old homework, was it? Even though the main goal was to create a sky, and shiny reflections, this ...