Lab 8: Crystal Space Mazing

1. Today we're going to use the Crystal Space Mazing tutorial.
2. Open up crystal space in visual studio. (Open the project that is supplied (wktypicals?).
3. Mazing should already be built, so select appmazing, and run (right mouse on appmazing and select debug).
4. You change direction with the arrows, move forward with w, and shoot with the space bar.
5. Let's change it a bit to show you what's there.
   • You'll note that where you start, the light is red (turn left or right).
   • In gamestuff.cpp, find the first call to CreateLight and change the csColor(1,0,0) to csColor(1,1,1).
   • Rebuild, and you should now have a white light where you start.
6. Let's change the walls.
   • Find the bit in Maze::CreateGeometry where you LoadTexture stone4.gif. Change the stone4.gif to plaster.png.
   • Rebuild and go.
   • note that in the cs/data directory, there is a file standard.zip. You can replace stone4.gif with any of those graphics and it will tile universally. You can even put your own in.
7. Check out the documentation.
   • You can find the API and the manual in the cs/docs directory,
   • or you can find them online .
   • Feel free to check out the user groups. Did they ever answer my question?
8. Now lets get down to it. I get really confused by the 3D room structure. Let's get rid of the upper levels.
   • In Maze::Maze get rid of the z loop. This kind of leaves the top two layers there, but not really.
   • In CreateMazeGeometry, add the ceiling to all of the first floor. In the createRoom calls, replace the first # with a ..
   • In createAdversaries, remove the two from floor 1 and 2.
   • In CreateMazeGeometry get rid of the y loop, remove lights with y>0, and CreateRoom with y>0. (I added lights to all the remaining rooms to see.)
9. Save this. We'll start next week from here.
10. Play around a bit
    • Make more of the adversaries.
    • Make them smaller or different textures.
    • Change their behaviour.
    • See if you can remove some walls.
    • Can you make walls different tetures?
    • Play with the lighting.
    • Next week, we'll add more rooms.