Overview     Video      Screen Shots      Design      Plan      History      Team        Development Plan  Table of Contents   Introduction    Editor    Graphics    Hardware   Architecture    Data   Code   Demo   Motion Capture    Scoring    Team    Behavior    3D  Task List    Milestones

Vertigo PSX Plan Data Structures   Editor   Windows 95 Application. Uses the Display Engine and Resource Manager to display objects and uses basic World Physics to model placement of objects. The editor saves scenes in format readable by the game script module. Each scene will also contain references to objects in format Resource Manager can use.   Game Scripts and Parameters Module   Controls game and scene transitions, accumulates score and checks time, initiates win/lose animations and transitions. This module also initiates creation and destruction of transient objects in the scene (enemies that appear around corners, etc.)   World Physics   The World Physics module is responsible for updating the positions and orientations of all the world objects and computing collisions. In addition, the World Physics module performs all the motion capture moves and calls the object behavior functions for each active object in the world. This module also reads the controller input for the use player and translates the user’s intention into world physics and special moves. A block diagram of the components of the World Physics follows.   World Physics     Resource Manager   Loads and unloads meshes, loads and unloads textures, maps textures and color maps to faces of meshes. The Resource Manager may also do some loading in the background.   Display Engine   Manages Order Table of drawing primitives, performs all transformations of objects and performs viewing transformation. The Display Engine also Does the actual texture mapping and color pallete assignment as set by the resource manager.   Memory Usage   The Sony PlayStation has very tight memory constraints. The following diagrams illustrated how Vertigo uses RAM, SRAM and VRAM.