TIME_LOG.md

Time Log

Total Time: 148 Hours

2021-05-01

2 Hours

• Wrote summary essay

2021-04-08 through 2021-04-30

40 Hours

• Finished Reading "Computer Graphics Programming in OpenGL with C++, Second Edition"
• Read parts of "GPU Gems" 1, 2, & 3
• Read parts of "GPU Zen"
• Researched deferred rendering, post-processing effects (SSAO, HDAO, Bloom, SSR, etc), and global illumination

2021-04-07

5 Hours

• Separated shadow resolution from screen resolution
• Implemented PCF soft shadows
• Added support for orthographic shadow mapping
• PCF now changes its pattern every frame, making the pattern less noticeable
• Added scene & environment switching at runtime

2021-04-05

5 Hours

• Implemented basic shadow mapping

2021-03-24 through 2021-04-2

15 Hours

• Reading and research

2021-03-23

4 Hours

• Tweaked PBR

2021-03-22

3 Hours

• Finished PBR shading

2021-03-19

1 Hour

• Basic PBR shading

2021-03-18

4 Hours

• Skybox lighting

2021-03-05 through 2021-03-16

20 Hours

• Reading and research

2021-03-04

2 Hours

• Added camera movement

2021-03-03

5 Hours

• Added performance overlay
• Implemented camera & light entity parenting
• Added GUI to control position of entities
• Added scale option

2021-03-02

1 Hours

• Added ImGui

2021-03-01

5 Hours

• Debugging scene importer
• Added dragon scene
• Implemented normal mapping

2021-02-22

5 Hours

• Debugging scene importer

2021-02-19

3 Hours

• Worked on scene importer

2021-02-18

2 Hours

• Switched to Assimp for model/scene loading
• Started work on scene importer

2021-02-17

4 Hours

• Tweaked lighting
• Moved some calculations to the vertex shader in order to improve performance
• Replaced custom model loader with tinyobjloader
• Switched example scene to a more complex model

2021-02-16

2 Hours

• Implemented lights
• Implemented ADS lighting

2021-02-15

1 Hour

• Refactored material management into struct

2021-02-14

3 Hours

• Implemented mipmapping
• Implemented anisotropic filtering
• Created basic model loader
• Rendered Blender's suzanne model with UV texturing and normals
• Modified model loader to combine vertices with identical attributes

2021-02-13

6 Hours

• Created basic scene to test parented transformations
• Refactored mesh management into struct
• Refactored shader management into struct
• Implemented texture mapping

2021-02-08

2 Hours

• Rendered cube
• Colored cube
• Animated cube
• Converted libraries from git subtrees to git submodules
• Rendered many cubes with instancing

2021-01-26

1 Hour

• Rendered triangle
• Animated triangle

2021-01-25

2 Hours

• Moved shader loading functions into separate file

2021-01-24

5 Hours

• Set up project structure
• Created GLFW window
• Rendered single point