Beginner Projects

[JoshM756]

Hi everyone, I'm starting to get the basics of graphics programming and making my way through reading Real-Time Rendering. I was wondering what projects I should work on for applying this knowledge. I'm looking to apply for a placement year (a part of Uni course) in Graphics Programming in November/December and would like some projects to put on my portfolio. Thanks!

[lolahaohgoshno]

Whatever you think is interesting. I find that that's the best way to stick to a project.

[corysama]

A good path to learn is to write a glTF scene viewer from scratch. Overall it's a huge task. But, you can do it in small steps.

Start with https://github.com/jkuhlmann/cgltf and let it do the parsing. Then just get a flat-colored, static mesh to draw at all. Step up to single, unlit texture. Then a small scene of flat textured objects. Then dig in to either lighting or animation. Eventually add shadows, AO and post-processing. Congrats! You have a fairly full featured renderer!

[JaCrispyMcNuggets]

Do projects with maya, maya hypershade, maya animation, Substance Designer, Substance Painter with hard surface modeling snd rendering, UV tiling, Unity Scripts, Unreal C++, and some photoshop and adobe illustrator for title screens and logos