A Crash Course in Binary Space Partitioning

Learn about 3D space division for game map generation and fast rendering

What you'll learn:

• Students will learn about Binary Space Partitioning and how it works.
• Students will learn how to write an algorithm to create a binary tree which divides 3D space.
• Students will learn how to use recursion to traverse a binary tree and create a 3D dungeon map.

Binary Space Partitioning is a technique that's been around for a while and has been used for a number of purposes, in particular 3D polygon divisions, optimised physics collisions, and world map creation within games. Most notably it was used by John Carmack in the creation of the game engine for Doom.

This course uses Unity 2020.

Learn how to program and work with:

• space division

• polygon ordering for fast rendering and occlusion

• binary trees

• recursive search algorithms

• dungeon map creation

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In this short course, you will gain an overview of the algorithm and how it is used to partition 3D space for optimised polygon drawing as well as get your hands dirty using BSPs to create a game environment dungeon map