3D Billiards
This game is a computer science project made by students at MIPT. The greater part of all programming was made by me with some help of Roman Prokofyev, the model of a billiard table was made by Vladimir Muzychenko. The game has tons of bugs, but somehow it works 😅
By the time I started this project, I had about 1.5–2 years of experience with computer; before that I was not even able to copy a file in Windows. Despite the game is quite poor, this page is here to keep memories about the very beginning of what later became my career.
Contents
Demo video
Requirements
| Operating system | Windows XP or newer |
I tried on Windows 10 and it works. 👍 for the backwards compatibility, Microsoft!
Controls
| Rotate viewpoint | Move the mouse to the edges of the screen. |
| Zoom in/out | Mouse wheel up/down or Page Up / Page Down. |
| Hit a ball | Left-click anywhere to prepare the hit, then choose a ball by left-clicking on it. Then right-click to choose the direction and the force of the hit. Press "Next" and left-click to choose the point on the ball where to hit, right-click to to restore the point to the center. Press "Done" to hit, press "Cancel" to abort. |
| Open in-game menu | Right-click. |
Physics params
Physics params are stored in .\Data\Physical characteristics\VALUE.VAL and one may play with them.
Known issues
| The process appears to not respond to input after starting. | Press Esc to close the splash screen. |
| The screen appears frozen after changing the display resolution. | F1 loads default display settings. If this does not help, stop the process e.g. by pressing Alt + F4 and launch it again. |
| I cannot see the menu/fonts in the game. | Maybe the required font is not installed. F2 tries to load another font, F3 loads the default game font. |