Mini Golf with 3D Splines and Map Editor

In this team project we created a 3D mini golf simulation. Some of the features I was in charge of developing were:

• 3D graphics.
• Map Editor (Real time editing).
  • Custom Raycasting to interact with the map.
  • Custom 3D Splines editing.
  • Obstacles addition and deletion.
  • UI.
• Software architecture based on the Game Programming Patterns book.
  • Object Pooling.
  • Game Loop.
  • Component Pattern.
  • Command Pattern.
  • Etc.

The mini-golf simulation includes 3 different AIs that can solve multiple pre loaded maps, where if possible the AI will win 1 turn by hitting in the best direction with precise speed. In case of the map being a maze due to obstacles, it proceeds to use a path finding algorithm and finds the best shot to every 'corner' point, therefore reaching the goal in minimal amount of moves.

The simulations has the following 4 derivation and integration methods to calculate the speed and acceleration of the ball (taking in count the terrain).

• Runge–Kutta 4th order (RK4)
• Heun's 3rd order method
• Verlet integration
• Euler method

Here is the GitHub link with instructions of how to run the software.