Most of the time just run $ make

The makefiles should be updated and working, but in case they are not, you can run:

$ ./genmake.sh # generate bootstrap Makefile $ make genmake # recursively generate other makefiles $ make

(To use genmake, you must have gawk installed)

Defaultly, the project compiles with all debugging flags enabled and no optimizations. To compile with optimizations run

$ OPTFLAGS=-O make

This code has been verified to work on the CSEL machines with the fallback shader (see below)

libglox and libslox are both projects written by me this year for the purpose of aiding me with OpenGL and SDL

The year is 2183 and the rebel cause is all but extinguished and an Imperial victory seems almost all but inevitable. One lingering hope remains with the frigate Industrial and its X25B fighter escorts if they can destroy the Death Star. You are a part of a quick fighter response team known as the Sons of Sol who have been enlisted to protect the frigate from the Death Star and its fighter as it makes a close approach to fire its main weapon and save the rebel cause and ensuring the survival of liberty for years to come.

You are due for engagement now.

Movement

W/S - Forward/Back Mouse - Pitch/Yaw Q/E - Roll A/D - Strafe Left/Right Z/X - Strafe Up/Down Shift or Spacebar - Shoot

Once you leave the initial launch tube, you will have control of your ship. There are other ships that orbit around the death star and they look like little moving stars when far away.

Near the starting point, there are 5 moving ships that follow ellipses around the starting point. To get there, just turn around after leaving the acceleration tube and find your way back.

Likewise, there are ships around the frigate you can find much like around the death star.

In addition, the Death Star has a few openings that you can fly into and try to make your way to the Death Star's reactor core.

There are 2 shaders, one for the moon and one for the Earth. The earth shader is implemented two different ways because I found that they work differently depending on the version of glsl

If using the primary shader for the earth (glsl >= 1.3) then the earth rotates as a small, but noticable speed.

The ships dynamically change the resolution of the model the closer you get. That is how I am able to have literaly a hundred of the little ships.

All 6 degrees of freedom actually work, although strafing is intentionally slow.

The controls use a smooth averaging algorithm to produce the smooth control effects.

The initial starting light is a directional light that changes from red to green when it is time to accelerate.

The spaceship jitter is described as a function of the acceleration and if the gun is firing

Lighting actually comes from the sun, and a secondary, smaller light is emitted from the Earth.

The small ships employ complex alorithms to yaw, pitch and roll with the line they follow to make it look more realistic (Follow one, it's quite cool)

The bullets from the gun are lines drawn along the vector of motion that have an alpha gradient and their color decays over time.

The Earth, Moon and Sun move with you, so don't try to get to them because you can't.

If you go too far past the death star or the frigate and look back, there will be some Z fighting because there is no limit on how far you can go.

There is no collision or hit detection :-( but it is still fun to pretend.

Textures could be better but this isn't for a photoshop class so, I think they are good enough.

If you are using glsl < 1.3 (like the CSEL machines) then you can't use the primary shader, but never fear! I included a screenshot of it in the 'screenshots' directory. I'm proud of that shader.