Tangent

2017

• C++, DirectX 11, HLSL

Tangent is a single-player racing game I made in about one week. It utilizes the geometry shader to create geometry on the fly based on a Bézier curve. Parts of the shader are customizable at runtime. (segment/iteration count, radius) I made this project as a way to better understand the geometry shader stage, and to improve my understanding of graphics programming.

Notable features:

• Realtime Bézier curve-based level generation utilizing the geometry shader stage
• Custom post-processing effects:
  • Bloom - Multi-pass Gaussian blur, then a high pass filter, followed by a combination pass shader code
  • Grayscale (seen in pause menu) shader code
• Exploding player mesh on collision