Chicago, USA
Just a little information about some of the things that I have been working on.
August 01, 2013
My Thought Process
I've been thinking this over for a while. Right now, my game engine and GUI do most things in USC-2. USC-2 is a 16 bit version of UNICODE and it can encode the values for all of the most common UNICODE characters. I think these days, Windows supports UTF-16 as well. I started to u…
I've been thinking this over for a while. Right now, my game engine and GUI do most things in USC-2. USC-2 is a 16 bit version of UNICODE and it can encode the values for all of the most common UNICODE characters. I think these days, Windows supports UTF-16 as well. I started to u…
July 30, 2013
I just wanted to post a quick update. The female running animation is in. It still needs some tweaking, but it's starting to come along quite nicely now.
I'm also going to inc…
I'm also going to inc…
July 23, 2013
Project B - 2013-07-23 Update -- Models (with screen shots)
Re-adding models has been more difficult than expected. I guess I've changed things more than I had originally thought. As I was working on the model system, I decided to knock a few things off of my to-do list. I use an component-based ent…
Re-adding models has been more difficult than expected. I guess I've changed things more than I had originally thought. As I was working on the model system, I decided to knock a few things off of my to-do list. I use an component-based ent…
July 17, 2013
Project B - 2013-07-17 Update
Progress has been going well though a bit slower than I had expected. I'm still behind after spending more than a week working on this problem. (direct-x-11-problems-on-windows-8-laptop). I've gotten a lot of work done. You can take a look at the current state of things…
Progress has been going well though a bit slower than I had expected. I'm still behind after spending more than a week working on this problem. (direct-x-11-problems-on-windows-8-laptop). I've gotten a lot of work done. You can take a look at the current state of things…
July 14, 2013
Doing It On Paper
Work has been going well these days, but I've decided to take a break from the standard progress report and tell one of my lessons learned stories.
In school programming courses (high school or college), students are often forced to look at programs, trace, the flow of execution and…
Work has been going well these days, but I've decided to take a break from the standard progress report and tell one of my lessons learned stories.
In school programming courses (high school or college), students are often forced to look at programs, trace, the flow of execution and…
July 08, 2013
2013-07-08 Update
[font=arial]Progress has been going at a good pace, albeit a little more slowly than I had thought. The code that the entire engine runs on has changed, and I've been trying to slowly reintegrate everything. A lot of the low-level graphics code is done. That last little tech demo t…
[font=arial]Progress has been going at a good pace, albeit a little more slowly than I had thought. The code that the entire engine runs on has changed, and I've been trying to slowly reintegrate everything. A lot of the low-level graphics code is done. That last little tech demo t…
July 03, 2013
Engine Post-Processing Framework
I feel really bad about my last post. I feel like I made it too quickly and I did a poor job of explaining things. Because of this, I'm going to try to explain things a little better.I want to give more details of what is in the demo that I posted earlier. Though I t…
I feel really bad about my last post. I feel like I made it too quickly and I did a poor job of explaining things. Because of this, I'm going to try to explain things a little better.I want to give more details of what is in the demo that I posted earlier. Though I t…
July 03, 2013
Project B Update
Progress has been going well. I'm kinda sorta keeping up with my schedule. I got a little behind because of a bug that shows up on some laptops (WIN 8 LAPTOP BUG) so I had to postpone some GUI things. I originally used the DXUT GUI for all of my GUI needs, but I've since re-made the…
Progress has been going well. I'm kinda sorta keeping up with my schedule. I got a little behind because of a bug that shows up on some laptops (WIN 8 LAPTOP BUG) so I had to postpone some GUI things. I originally used the DXUT GUI for all of my GUI needs, but I've since re-made the…
July 01, 2013
[font=arial]Project B[/font]
[font=arial]Hello all. I've been working hard on putting the graphics-less game together and I'm going to continue to work on it, but work will go a little slower as I'm starting to work on a new game project. I've already developed a 3D multi-player game engine that was…
[font=arial]Hello all. I've been working hard on putting the graphics-less game together and I'm going to continue to work on it, but work will go a little slower as I'm starting to work on a new game project. I've already developed a 3D multi-player game engine that was…
June 22, 2013
Direct X 11 Problems on Windows 8 Laptop
[size=2](Edit: Took out the major from the title. I think it was too bold)
Other's may disagree with this, but I think one of the worst feeling in the world for a programmer is to work hard on something, debug it and test it out thoroughly just for it to fail …
[size=2](Edit: Took out the major from the title. I think it was too bold)
Other's may disagree with this, but I think one of the worst feeling in the world for a programmer is to work hard on something, debug it and test it out thoroughly just for it to fail …
June 16, 2013
It's been a while since I've had a chance to update this. I've started working on another project with an old friend of mine and 3 others so I haven't had the time to really focus on this project, but I'll try to keep it up. I think this is a good project for me. As I dive deeper into it, I feel th…
June 03, 2013
[font=arial]Beginning on the World Map[/font]
[font=arial]I had hoped to release this earlier, but other projects have held me up a bit. Also when I had first envisioned writing this, I thought that I would be able to write about my thought process while I was actively making decisions. That turned …
[font=arial]I had hoped to release this earlier, but other projects have held me up a bit. Also when I had first envisioned writing this, I thought that I would be able to write about my thought process while I was actively making decisions. That turned …
May 25, 2013
More Design and the First Basic Prototype
In this journal entry, I'll talk about the prototype that I have written. Prototyping is a way to test concepts without committing to anything. Many like to use prototypes to test potential features. I think this is a good idea and I also do it. I also like …
In this journal entry, I'll talk about the prototype that I have written. Prototyping is a way to test concepts without committing to anything. Many like to use prototypes to test potential features. I think this is a good idea and I also do it. I also like …
May 23, 2013
[font=arial]Part 2 - The Preliminary Design / Concept[/font]
[font=arial]I'm going to start this project by doing a little design work first. When I used to work at the USDA, I would review proposals from companies bidding on IT projects. Their concepts and specs had to be good because they wanted g…
[font=arial]I'm going to start this project by doing a little design work first. When I used to work at the USDA, I would review proposals from companies bidding on IT projects. Their concepts and specs had to be good because they wanted g…
May 23, 2013
[font=arial]The Idea[/font]
[font=arial]What's the first thing that the we often notice when playing video games? Most of us see the graphics first and games that look good and have a lot of eye-candy make people immediately interested. Because of this, many (myself included) have been focusing on m…
[font=arial]What's the first thing that the we often notice when playing video games? Most of us see the graphics first and games that look good and have a lot of eye-candy make people immediately interested. Because of this, many (myself included) have been focusing on m…
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