So here is something I just discovered I can do in C++ that I didn't know about.


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Howdy.

Been quiet for a while but have been getting back into my scripting language compiler/virtual machine. No particular reason, just has grabbed my attention for the last few weeks.

Today I started adding support for range-syntax on strings and lists:
var s = "hello";var m = [ "one", 2, 3.0 ]; o…

I've been working a little bit on the view mode with the bow this week. Not spent a lot of time on it but Saturday morning seems to be a good time to update my journal since I have an hour to work on the game and can't really get into anything else properly, so we are only about half-way through th…

Now I have a chase camera working that can be assigned to move to different targets, I've been working on a "view mode" for the player. Holding down the right-mouse button moves the camera to a shoulder-view mode so the player can look around.

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Just a quick post to say I've re-integrated my rag doll system back into the current iteration of the game. This is based on making a set of Bullet shapes from the current skeleton configuration on the fly, then handing control of these over to Bullet.

New feature here is that the new chase camera …

In preparation for being able to do some stuff with the bow aiming, I've ripped out and rewritten the [font='courier new']Camera[/font] system for the game. I've split what was one system into two classes now, [font='courier new']ViewTransform[/font] which represents a position and orientation for …

Decided to take a break from player/world interactions and look at something I've never tried before, namely attaching objects like weapons to the player skeleton.