miniRT

Mini raytracer written in c.

Screenshot

🧐 Features

Here're some of the project's best features:

• Rendering basic shapes (plane rectangle sphere cylinder and cone)
• Rendering from a scene file (custom configuration files some examples found in ./scenes)
• Multiple colored point lights
• Shadows
• Reflections
• Texture uv mapping
• Normal maps.

🕹️ controls

• Mouse click to select an object.
• Hold ctrl to control the camera instead.
• wasd: move around.
• NUMPAD_8 / NUMPAD_2 : move up / move down
• up / down arrow : rotate along x axis.
• left / right arrow : rotate along y axis (z for camera).
• NUMPAD_6 / NUMPAD_4 : rotate along z axis (not implemented for camera for obvious reason (dizziness)).
• NUMPAD_+ / NUMPAD_- : control object's radius.
• KEYPAD_+ / KEYPAD_- : control object's height.
• KEYPAD_( / KEYPAD_) : control object's width.
• KEYPAD_H : hide/unhide object.
• KEYPAD_G : generate a .rt file for the current scene (extra).

🛠️ Installation Steps:

1. install 42 mlx.

2. Compile.

for compiling mandatory part:

make

for compiling bonus part (recommended):

make bonus

for compiling extra part (contains some additional features):

make extra

3. Run

Mandatory:

./miniRT [path to a scene file containing only mandatory params]

Bonus:

./miniRT_bonus [path to a scene file with full features]

Extra:

./miniRT_extra [path to a scene file with full features]