Snake Disection

Lonesome Ducky · Post by **Lonesome Ducky** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:36 pm

This is a program I made for my Biology class. You get to move around the organs of a snake and when you mouse over them, it gives you information on each part.

Controls:
To activate the camera, hold E, while holding E, it's Irrlicht's default Maya camera, so hold mouse 1 and move the mouse around to rotate the view, so on, so on.

When you are over an organ, you can click and drag to move it.

http://lonesomeducky.googlepages.com/Snake.zip

Just made for fun and information.

Strong99 · Post by **Strong99** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:41 pm

looks good but one thing. When I hover over an organ the text sometime falls outside the screen.

Lonesome Ducky · Post by **Lonesome Ducky** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:43 pm

Yeah, that's one problem I was too lazy to fix

Thanks for testing it though!

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:07 pm

Nice tool. Comes even with source :-)

If you want to make some more improvements I would recommend adding maybe a small infotext at the top about the controls.

Also 2 minor problem, but maybe because I did run the application in Wine:
- There had been 2 organs which had no text.
- For some reason shadows had been rotated 180° degree around Y here.

Anyway - very cool!

Lonesome Ducky · Post by **Lonesome Ducky** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:10 pm

Yeah, I couldn't find enough information on those organs to put it into text, and the shadows, I'm not really sure. Maybe it set up the orthographic projection backwards. I'm probably not going to continue working on it as I'm working on that LOD scene node, which is taking most of my time. But none the less, thanks for your comments!

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:48 pm

Ah the shadows is probably related to OpenGL/DirectX differences. The problem appears in OpenGL only.

I suppose those 2 organs were the snake's testicles?

(I saw Left/Right Testicle file in the zip).

Lonesome Ducky · Post by **Lonesome Ducky** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:51 pm

I think so, it's really hard to find information on all the snakes organs. If I remember right, there's another organ with no information. Plus, the maturity of my class isn't quite what it should be in 10th grade

Midnight · Post by **Midnight** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:27 am

wow this is really interesting.. nice work dude.

xDan · Post by **xDan** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:35 pm

Cool!

there's an interesting article on snake slithering here

bit-pusher · Post by **bit-pusher** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:55 pm

Very nice -- good work

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:39 pm

cool stuff. i wish i had this running in my biology class during my secondary school time.