Some good progress this morning. The player capsule (red) now correctly glides and slides around the environment, no longer penetrating either the static or dynamic shapes, and we have the floor ray cast set up and working to detect …

Well, Bullet Physics turns out to be, um, quirky, to say the least. Not that I'm complaining, its amazingly well written and stable and very easy to get it set up to do the basic convex shapes rolling around a level, but…

I've decided to scrap the first person game and start again. Just don't seem to find writing a first person game as much fun as a third person platformer for some reason. Something to do with getting not much graphical pay-off from pouring all the effort into the player character I think.

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So the problem with those wonderful detailed arms from MakeHuman is that they are impossible to rig using Charm, since it is designed as a low-polygon editor and hasn't (yet) got any support for fancy weight painting. Gave up and made a set of my own deliberately basic arms, so I can at least start…

Just a quick post to say that, as I'm completely fed up with trying to make a model of a hand myself, I've finally gotten around to adding an OBJ importer to Charm so I can chop bits off a MakeHuman model instead

I used this excelle…

Making some progress on the grappling game, as this poor quality video hopefully shows. You can run around, jump and use the grapple to pull yourself to any point in the level.



Excuse the disembodied arms. Just checking my skeletal …

Managed to get cube shadow mapping working today. I'm not completely happy with the result but it was certainly easy enough to set up in the end, once I figured my way around the inevitable issues and artifacts. I'm using a 1024x1024…

Just a quick entry to say that the scripting engine is on hold while I start a new game project. Just been playing around getting normal mapping and specular lighting working with a single omnidirectional point light.

The basic idea i…

Quick post from phone.

Have decided to restart Om from scratch again. Too much unexpected things have made the current implementation feel icky. Mainly the running of object destructors but sure there are other things too.

Issues to consider from day one on this iteration are:

* decrementing a referen…

Destructor Access to Execution Context

Having got [font='courier new']this[/font] working in destructors as per the last entry, the next challenge I decided to get into was making it possible to access values in the surrounding execution context from within the destructor body. Sounds simple, huh? H…