July 19, 2004
Today for my game development related time I sat down with my sketchbook and a bunch of game soundtracks and tried to come up with some character designs for my long term project.
Right now I have basically solid ideas for three of the main protagonists and several of the minor protagonists, but mos…
Right now I have basically solid ideas for three of the main protagonists and several of the minor protagonists, but mos…
July 18, 2004
Today for my "productive" personal time I decided to try to get PyGame and PyOpenGL working again. Still no good. Maybe after the next major Python release stablizes newer, happier versions will be released. Or maybe I'll break down and rebuild the entire mess from the sources. That was moderately …
July 17, 2004
Fixed the auto-solver bug on dodecahellspawn. Hopefully.
I think I'll shelve it for about a week, so I'll have a semi-fresh look on the code. Hopefully then I can figure out why the mouse rotation code is borked.
I think I'll shelve it for about a week, so I'll have a semi-fresh look on the code. Hopefully then I can figure out why the mouse rotation code is borked.
July 16, 2004
Well, I accepted the new job thing. There are still some details to be worked out, but I should be starting soon, with the associated drop in free time. On the plus side, I'm wrapping up my other work, and it doesn't look like there won't be much, if any, overlap, so I won't be doing double hours a…
July 15, 2004
One more strange fact about me: mouse gestures give me sour tummy. Don't ask me how; I have no clue. I also can get sour tummy playing certain 3d games. I first noticed this with the original Unreal and Ultima: Ascension. Some more recent games don't give me much trouble. Others I can't play for mo…
July 14, 2004
The actual game part of dodecahellspawn is pretty much in place. As the screenshot shows, it's possible to nicely swiss-cheese the faces now.
One of the details that's faked is that while you can see the individual pieces rotate when you do a rotation instruction, the model itself doesn't store the…
One of the details that's faked is that while you can see the individual pieces rotate when you do a rotation instruction, the model itself doesn't store the…
July 13, 2004
Well I pretty much finished my experiments in storing Quaternions as (R, u, theta) instead of (w, x, y, z). Basically it makes some operations a lot easier, such as exponentation, and some operations, like quaternion multiplication, pissing annoying to the point I would translate it back into (w, x…
July 12, 2004
The current incarnation of dodecahellspawn fakes lighting with texture blending. A textured quad is billboarded centered at the middle of the dedecahedron. The visual defect I mentioned before was the result of the quad inconsistently being drawn on top of pieces. Before, all the pieces and the qua…
July 11, 2004
Well, I spent entirely too much time working on purely aesthetic improvements for dodecahellspawn today. Tweaking textures, etc. On the down side, practically no progress has been made on gameplay. On the plus side, it's starting to look pretty much how I want it to, and some of the changes I've m…
July 10, 2004
For the most part I try to spend at least an hour every day on personal projects. By doing so even when I'm not in the mood, I keep on track sufficiently that I have a good chance of actually finishing things. Today I'm making an exception: it's LAN party day. Non-stop Warcraft III until our ears b…
July 09, 2004
I cranked out a few textures for the dodecahellspawn. Right now, I'm using the faux stained glass look. By using different gradiants to generate backgrounds and differing central motifs, each piece should be recognizable as part of distinct faces. Hopefully.
I've got about half the textures done. R…
I've got about half the textures done. R…
July 08, 2004
One vaguely interesting thing about me: I have a greater than average propensity for breaking things. On one hand, this is bad: I go through hardware more frequently than your normal geek, and not because I mean to upgrade either. It also comes up in my coding style; I generally need to use a stron…
July 07, 2004
Well, I finally sat down and coded a simple renderer for a dodecahedron with SDL and OpenGL in C++. I did a couple of really bone headed things while putting it together, like completely borking the normals, and at one point using a cosine instead of a sine. But, it's looking pretty good now.
I thi…
I thi…
July 06, 2004
So back to the personal code library for a bit. What with concerns from real life and dodecahellspawn, the code library has been on the back burner for a bit. I'd like to share some interesting tidbit about C++, design philosophy or developing in general, but today I just did basic work: commenting…
July 05, 2004
Well, I tried upgrading my Python installation today, and only succeeding in borking things so badly I can't get *any* pygame or PyOpenGL programs to run, so I guess the dodecahellspawn rewrite is going to be in C++.
Maybe in a few months I'll try reinstalling the entire mess.
Maybe in a few months I'll try reinstalling the entire mess.
July 04, 2004
This next image for dodecahellspawn is fairly subjective. It just shows a numbering for faces and vertices. When you get right down to it, almost any numbering scheme will work. This one exploits a few regularities that makes the numbers easier to generate in a few spots. For example: faces on opp…
July 02, 2004
I just got a new job offer. I've worked with these people before and enjoy the environment. There's something great about a group that takes a three hour lunch every day. Of course, if I take the offer I'll be actually working real hours again instead of consultant hours which I'm doing now. That'l…
July 01, 2004
So, as promised, today's entry is about dodecahellspawn. I find it useful for any project bigger than "Hello World" to lay out as much as possible on paper before actually coding. And since I'm such a nice guy, I'll spare you my handwriting and put up nice pretty versions drawn up in gimp instead.
F…
F…
June 30, 2004
Well the new thing added to the code library today are streambuf helper classes. They're a pair of classes that derive from streambuf that implement buffering code. The OStreamBuf class adds a pure virtual method, do_write() and the IStreamBuf class adds a do_read(). Basically these get called when…
June 29, 2004
I've started to get slightly burned out on the personal library recoding thing. Well, burned out isn't quite the right description; it's more like I feel need to take a break and do something less predictable. So, I figure I'd alternate with something a little light: re-doing dodecahellspawn.
As I'v…
As I'v…
June 28, 2004
I was a bum and did almost nothing today. Well, I did some moderating stuff, but who cares about that? But I'm updating my journal anyways, basically just to bump it so that I can tell at a glance if any of the other developer journals have been updated when I next visit.
Actually, I did one vaguely…
Actually, I did one vaguely…
June 27, 2004
It's been one of those days. I've spent the last hour trying to track down a bug that didn't exist. I wrote the code *perfectly* the first time around, but I screwed up the test case in such a subtle manner that it seemed like the class invariants got borked.
In any case, the current item being fold…
In any case, the current item being fold…
June 25, 2004
Despite the fact you can't actually create new operators in C++, it's possible to create new "psuedo-operators". Warning: bad code ahead.
Let's say you're a game developer working on your first 3D engine. One of the classes you're going to write is a vector class. It might look something like:
Let's say you're a game developer working on your first 3D engine. One of the classes you're going to write is a vector class. It might look something like:
class …
June 25, 2004
Well, comments for journal entries seem to have been mostly implemented. There are a few details to be worked out, but for the most part they seem to be working fine. Incidently, if you were reading my journal at 3:00 this morning when we were testing the commenting facility, you have my deepest sy…
June 25, 2004
And that bitch Jenny totally blew me off today. I hate that. You'd think that she'd at least be able to say hello or something. It's not like she needed stitches afterwards or anything.
June 25, 2004
I had chicken with rice for dinner tonight. It was ok, the sauce was kind of strong.
I swear the next door neighbors' dog hasn't moved in a week. I think it might be dead.
I swear the next door neighbors' dog hasn't moved in a week. I think it might be dead.
June 24, 2004
One thing I've noticed about singletons in C++ is that they're usually used to solve two related problems: the one only one object of a class problem and the order of initialization problem. Of the two, the order of initialization problem is probably more significant, but rarely gets any fanfare. T…
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