[DEVELOPMENT: Archetype Engine]
Yes, to be perfectly honest, I've been a little lazy the last few nights. Not that I haven't done any work, but it's been light; reordering classes and files, mostly.
That said, some of the reason I've slowed is I'm trying to wrap my brain around a decent method for rendering geometry. Ok, it's a little more detailed than that, so, perhaps I'll break down the dilemma... I want to keep my "data" and my "renderer" separated, that's just good programing, but there are some points where it gets a little fuzzy on how to do that. For instance, 3D models. Obviously the model loader doesn't need to know anything about the renderer, but the data it loads (vertex, normal, color, tex, etc, etc) is, almost exclusively data used by the view. As for as the logic of the engine is concerned the geometry information doesn't exist. Yet, I know I want to setup a difference between the model data and an "instance" of the model, allowing, for example, two instances to share the same base model, but have two different animations running. When I think of this, it sounds like I should make the "base" model part of the "data" of my engine and the instances part of the "view", but, still, the base model would only be for the view's use, so should it also be part of the view?
This leads to other issues in which I'm trying to do a bit of homework and, as such, has slowed down my work. The slow down is for the better, I suppose. Nothing worse than diving right in then finding I'd need to completely rewrite the engine because I missed something. On the other hand, I hear it's better to just get something working, and worry about refining it later... I mean, tons of developers find they have to start over a few times. Ah well, I'll figure this out eventually.
If anyone has any suggestions I'm more than willing to hear them out!
Short post... no screen shots... ahh well.
