Springport, MI
Information and media regarding our current project.
March 01, 2006
Well, not actually a problem with fringing, but a problem with the way that I'm doing them. I'm using multitexturing so that I can make 1 transition texture and use it for any terrain. Problem is, I don't know a good method for figuring out which base tile to use. Actually, I don't think that will …
February 28, 2006
Well, I was getting worried there for a little while. I was having doubts that I was going to be able to do this since practically everything that I have programmed was done using code that I had seen before. My engine is all code that is pretty much general and stuff you could find in any book. My…
February 28, 2006
Fringes work. Thats right, I got my fringes to calculate AND draw correctly. I had to search hi and low for a tutorial that would help some, and it came from russia. Its similiar to David Michael's tutorial, but 1 fact was different. David's article says that north should be the first bit (north, e…
February 25, 2006
I finally have screenshots (actually, more like glimpses). I still can't get fringing calculations to work, so I'm just going to make each tile and I'll have to add it by hand in the map editor [sad]. Any, here they are:
First Screenshot
Second Screenshot
The way its set up restricts stuff that would …
First Screenshot
Second Screenshot
The way its set up restricts stuff that would …
February 24, 2006
I was hoping to be able to post a screenshot of my 2D demo today, but for some reason fringing/transitions won't work. I'm getting the following results blended together:
1 - top
2 - right
3 - bottom
4 - left
5 - corners of the same side
1 1
1 5 (so the lower right corner would be topleft trans and top ri…
1 - top
2 - right
3 - bottom
4 - left
5 - corners of the same side
1 1
1 5 (so the lower right corner would be topleft trans and top ri…
February 23, 2006
I'm still working on my 2D demo (I can't geting fringing/transitions to work). Hopefully I can have a demo for that later. Until then, I have this little font engine demo for you:QftDF
This was done pretty easily, here's the code that I used:
This was done pretty easily, here's the code that I used:
void Idle()
{
g_Timer.Start();
dftin::DirectInput::Ge…
February 22, 2006
Well, I finished the code base sooner than I had though I would. The only thing left to add is my own font class, but with the way I set up the font engine, I can add that once I figure out how I want to do it (not sure if I want to do variable-width or fixed-width, we'll see). The codebase now con…
February 21, 2006
Yea, I give up already. I'm back to redesigning my engine. This time, I had to restart because the only debugging I had added was using assert().
The only thing I don't have designed out as of right now is the game specific stuff and my audio module. I know the basic design for my audio module, …
The only thing I don't have designed out as of right now is the game specific stuff and my audio module. I know the basic design for my audio module, …
December 04, 2005
As per the rude guy's "request", I have an update about my current project. I'm adding some finishing touches to my code base, which now consists of:
dftcb::
IniFile
BaseSingleton
BaseManager
Window
Direct3D::BaseSingleton
DirectInput::BaseSingleton
Texture
TextureManager::Ba…
December 01, 2005
November 21, 2005
College is going pretty good, but I think I'm going to have to transfer. Westwood is really good, but my parent's credit won't hold up for another $11,400 loan. So, unless I can get a really good job, I'll probably be transfering to Baker's online computer science degree (which would probably be be…
October 17, 2005
Well, I finished my first week of college, and I did f***ing horrible. Other than my discussions (which had to be done by Wednesday), I did everything in the last 4-5 hours. I wrote papers for all 4 classes, took 3 quizzes (good on the first two, 68% on the last which I beleive is an F) and posted …
October 15, 2005
Well, I finally got my GED results and I'm pretty disappointed. I come up 8 points short of my goal of 600. So, I did ok, but I really wanted to get atleast an average of 600.
October 14, 2005
Well, I uploaded a temporary website. This way I have a news point for my current project, a gallery, etc. Nothing actually works on it quite yet, but I'll make it usable by Saturday night. Then, I can start working on the actual site.
www.dfgames.net
www.dfgames.net
October 13, 2005
I had made a bitmask generator a while ago and I've found it very handy. Using the application, you can load a file choose a colorkey then choose generate. It generates a bitmask and combines it with the base image. Then you can save it as a DDS file. I was just wondering if anybody out there woul…
October 13, 2005
I ordered a laptop from Dell about a week ago. The website said that it was going to be shipped the 14th and I received it today (actually, I would have gotten it yesterday, but I was at work and it required a signature (which is about 2 weeks before I was expecting it)). I'm very happy with it. He…
September 06, 2005
Well, I finally started my GED prep-classes today. I took 4 pretests and scored as follows:
Math: 500
Science: 550
Lang. Arts, Reading: 560
Social Studies: 580
410 is a passing grade
So, I didn't do too bad. I probably would have done better, but I finished homeschooling about 4 months ago. There was ano…
Math: 500
Science: 550
Lang. Arts, Reading: 560
Social Studies: 580
410 is a passing grade
So, I didn't do too bad. I probably would have done better, but I finished homeschooling about 4 months ago. There was ano…
August 31, 2005
Ebay seems to have all of these "restrictions" about selling items, but they do nothing about it. I've seen over 30 auctions this month for "DB/Z/GT complete series on 2 cds". This is obviously not legal (some of them even state that they can only be run on computers).
Edit: (fixed to be more reada…
Edit: (fixed to be more reada…
August 23, 2005
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I think it should be retitled "Why are internet people so lazy?". Seriously, why would you type '2' instead of 'two' or 'to'? Wow, I shaved a good second off of my typing there. Really dodged a bullet. I'm in the midst of a 'insult battle' because I corrected some guy because he said 'your g…
I think it should be retitled "Why are internet people so lazy?". Seriously, why would you type '2' instead of 'two' or 'to'? Wow, I shaved a good second off of my typing there. Really dodged a bullet. I'm in the midst of a 'insult battle' because I corrected some guy because he said 'your g…
August 18, 2005
I created two smart pointer classes last night. I also tested them, but I think I'm doing something wrong (mine seems to be faster than the regular array allocation/deallocation.) I ran a test, allocating 100000 of my Interface class (an class wrapping an integer.) I averaged the results:
DEFAULT:
15…
DEFAULT:
15…
August 16, 2005
I know I said I wasn't going to post until I had a demo, but to be fair I had posted a demo. I had posted a 3D mouse picking demo, but since I'm going to be doing 2D stuff, I removed it.
Anyway, I'm looking for a DragonBall fan that can do some concept sketches for me. I just need the one character …
Anyway, I'm looking for a DragonBall fan that can do some concept sketches for me. I just need the one character …
August 15, 2005
This demo isn't the greatest. First, there is no lighting, so you can't tell that the right triangle has been turned. Second, the right triangle is hanging half way off the screen.
Sorry!
Picking Demo
Heres the code:
Sorry!
Picking Demo
Heres the code:
#include
#include
#include
#pragma comment(lib, "d3d9")
#pragma comment(lib, "d3dx9")
#d…
August 11, 2005
For the next month or so, I'm going to be working on small demos. I'm going to start with 2D stuff (like fire, particle engine, font engine, etc) and then I'm going to move onto 3D stuff (camera movement, model loading, model animating, etc). Hopefully I can learn a lot, and get out of this rut (si…
August 09, 2005
I'm looking to buy some of the DragonBall series on DVDs. Problem is, I don't know which series is the first one. Is it Z or GT? Or neither?
Does anybody here know?
I've been trying to decide which project I shoud start on: RPG or engine. So I've decided neither! I'm just going to work on learning te…
Does anybody here know?
I've been trying to decide which project I shoud start on: RPG or engine. So I've decided neither! I'm just going to work on learning te…
August 09, 2005
I'm working on a dll interface template class for my code base, and I'm having a slight problem. After everything is done and the app has returned, I get a bunch of "First-chance exception in Code Base.exe (KERNEL32.DLL): 0xC0000005: Access Violation."
Can someone help me find my error?
The code seem…
Can someone help me find my error?
The code seem…
August 08, 2005
Has anybody else been having problems getting on gamedev? Every couple of hours it seems to stop working, but its probably my ISP.
I've got 3 watchers on my ram (yay :D), but no bids yet. I'm winning a gameboy SP at the moment (hopefully I get it.)
I've got mostly everything reinstalled on my compute…
I've got 3 watchers on my ram (yay :D), but no bids yet. I'm winning a gameboy SP at the moment (hopefully I get it.)
I've got mostly everything reinstalled on my compute…
August 08, 2005
Well, a couple weeks ago I bought a cd, and I got it when I got back from vacation. Come to find out, it had 50 copyrighted books about game programming on it, and 12 assembly tutorials (I was told these might be legal, but it wasn't really a "bonus", if they're downloadable.)
I contacted ebay about…
I contacted ebay about…
August 06, 2005
We're finally home. We left at 7:00pm yesterday and got home around 3:00pm today. It was horrible (especially in one spot. Half of the road was blocked off by those orange barrels, and they didn't lower the speed limit. I've got people trying to push me down the highway at 70mph, with orange barrel…
August 05, 2005
Well, it looks like my webhosting is going to be cancelled (I was getting free hosting for a while. Then it went to ad-based hosting. Now, when I goto their website to get the adcode, their site says nothing about hosting at all.) So, I'm going to be upgrading to iPowWeb.
I made my first beautiful g…
I made my first beautiful g…
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