Misc. Update

Just got scene loading working. Well, most of it. One of the models in the scene is coming in at a different angle than it should be.

I also figured out zoom in orthographic mode. Which took longer than it should have due to some misleading forum posts.

First blog of the semester

As the semester began. I forced myself to rethink what I'm doing. The physics and collision stuff is fun, but I feel that maybe that's an area I could use a little guidance in if I want to understand and build on the techniques involved in it. Or maybe I really just need to read a book on it. I don't know.

At any rate, the physics and collision engine is still going to be developed on. But it's taking the back burner for now. Instead, I'm now attempting to focus on the actual game development part of the whole thing. I realize, given the amount of time I have left, that I probably won't make anything too fun or exciting. But I do wish to make something functional, at least.

In that regard, I chose Ogre to actually make the game. I have a decent sized code base for it, it's easy to use with only a bit of work to get set up, and the most important factor was that it has extensive model and animation features.

Development has went along pretty nicely so far. I've set up the base application, game object (Gob), and game state classes, and added in the framework for joystick support.

My goal(s) for next Monday are:

1. Add basic dotScene support. Have most of the code already. Just need to integrate TinyXML into the project and tweak the scene loader.
2. Using a 360 controller. Get something moving on the screen.
3. Implement line-circle collision.