Timm Lotter

Game Name: 3D PingPong

Genre: classic PingPong

Programming Language: C#/XNA

Game Language:english

Release: 26th April, 2009

Developer: Timm Lotter

Desciption: A classic PingPong version, but in 3D and for 2 Players for the XBOX360. This was my first console game and I learned a lot about the developing for consoles with the presentation on a common TV.

Controlling: Player1(left) can move his board with the first Controller and the Left Thumb Stick, Player2(right) can move his board with the second Controller and the Left Thumb Stick. A new round can be started, when Player1 press the A-Button. Next to that can Player1 press the Right Trigger to move the camera with the Left Thumb Stick and change the view with the Right Thumb Stick.

Tool Name: 3ds Max Exporter

Programming Language: C++

Developer: Timm Lotter

Desciption: I’ve writte the 3ds Max Exporter for my CybyEngine DX10. The main idea was a easy solution of exporting geometry and material stuff in an easy way.

• from every mesh of the scene will be the geometry and material exported
• exported Geometry: Position, Texture-Coordinates, Normal and Tangent
• exporter Materials: Diffuse-, Specular-, and Normalmap

Unfortunately, I don’t have any screenshots, but I also made a small GUI right in 3ds Max to select exactly the stuff that you want to be exported

SDK Name: CybyEngine DX10

Programming Language: C++

Release: none

Developer: Timm Lotter

Desciption: CybyEngine DX10 is a small 3D GameEngine with a DX10 Renderer. The goal was to learn how a 3D game engine works and shader display all the cool stuff in the modern games. The engine had about 10k lines code and got the following futures:

• GameApp (can be inherit and represent the entry point of the engine)
• DX10Renderer (the core of the engine and main purpose is the effective rendering of all stuff)
• SceneGraph (simple scene graph, where you can plug-in entities like meshes, terrain, camera…)
• PostProcessingManager (easy managment of post processing effects, currently supported ColorFilter, Monochrome and ColorInverse)
• CameraManager (managment of programmed and pre-defined cameras that can be pluged into the scene)
• LightManager (managment of all lights)
• EffectManager (managment of all effect, like Mesh and Terrain Shader)
• TextureManage (easy loading and managment of textures)
• MaterialManager (loading and managment of all materials like Diffuse-, Normal-, Specularmaps…)
• MeshManager (loading and managment of all meshes, currently is only my own mesh-format supported – see project 3ds Max Exporter)
• ObjectManager (creating and managment of on the fly created meshes like boxes and grid)
• TerrainManager (easy loading and managment of terrains)
• Font (easy rendering of fonts)
• SpriteManager (easy rendering of sprite like for a GUI)
• RenderWindow (creating of an render window)
• DirectInput (easy mouse and keyboard controlling)
• LogFile (logged informations and errors in files)
• Timer (all about timing like FPS, Counter and profiling)

The engine was able to handle multiple lights. I implemented some common shaders like parallax occlusion mapping, parallax offset mapping,  terrain rendering with 4 detailed texture and alpha map layer …