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Old 2008 Course Web: Assignments / GrTownRecreate

If you choose not to use the sample solution as a basis for your project, you must be sure to implement the important features of the sample code:

• You must be able to fly around the town to look at things.
• You must have "shortcuts" to go directly to places where particularly interesting things are.
• You must have several vehicles moving around. (this doesn't necessarily mean cars - one student had a space-town with ships flying around, another in a Harry Potter inspired project had brooms flying around castles)
• You must be able to control the time of day. The time of day should affect the lighting and the actions that occur.
• The program must be able to maintain a decent frame rate.

Writing things from scratch is a lot more work. We will give you some credit for doing it, but you will still need to do the technical challenges.

Many good assignments (that have gotten As) have been built on the sample solution, and some terrible ones have been written from scratch. Historically, most assignments built from scratch have been good, but that's because people have put a lot of time and energy into it. The easiest path to a cool project (and a good grade) is to use the sample solution.