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I used SFML to program a 2D chess game, using the chess set modelled in Maya to create the sprites.
The piece images are placed automatically in positions determined by reading a ‘FEN’ string (Forsyth-Edwards Notation). The FEN string for the start of the game would be “rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR”.
Lower-case letters are black pieces, upper-case are white pieces. ‘/’ represents a new row, and numbers represent empty squares. So ‘ppp4p’ would represent a row with three pawns, then four empty squares, then a single pawn.
The FEN string for the second image would be this:
“2r3k1/p4p1p/2r3p1/p1bp4/b4B2/P1R1PN2/5PPP/1R2K3”.

Piece Capture

Pawn Promotion

En Passant

This chess model was made in my spare time in Autodesk Maya, based on an actual chess set I own. I later used this to make 2D sprites for a chess game I made in SFML.

: Modelled the Pawn and Rook

: Started modelling the Bishop, and made the base for the King and Queen

: Started modelling the King and Queen

: Started a rough outline of the Knight

: Smoothed out the edges

: Finished modelling all the pieces

: Modelled the chess board, and copied and positioned all the pieces on it

: Added colour to the board and pieces

: Originally, each square on the board was modelled individually. To make things faster and reduce the number of polygons, I made the board flat, and added a checkerboard image.

: Another view

Nick Vardy

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SFML Chess Game

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