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Snake Disection

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:36 pm
by Lonesome Ducky
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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.

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:41 pm
by Strong99
looks good but one thing. When I hover over an organ the text sometime falls outside the screen.

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 3:43 pm
by Lonesome Ducky
Yeah, that's one problem I was too lazy to fix :D Thanks for testing it though!

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:07 pm
by CuteAlien
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!

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:10 pm
by Lonesome Ducky
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! :D

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:48 pm
by BlindSide
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? :lol: (I saw Left/Right Testicle file in the zip).

Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 4:51 pm
by Lonesome Ducky
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 :lol:

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 2:27 am
by Midnight
wow this is really interesting.. nice work dude.

Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 1:35 pm
by xDan
Cool!

there's an interesting article on snake slithering here

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:55 pm
by bit-pusher
Very nice -- good work :)

Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:39 pm
by Virion
cool stuff. i wish i had this running in my biology class during my secondary school time. :D