Crazy

The last few days have been busy but unfortunately I have had little time to work on the first person camera system that I was aiming to implement.

Between fixing computers that are running important physics experiments to helping to sell t-shirts to raise money for Haiti relief efforts, I have been a bit short on time.

I plan to get back to work tomorrow and catch up in work over the next few days so I might be posting more than one update as I am intending to work quite a few hours soon.

Why post if I have nothing to post? Well keeping this journal active is important to me for keeping my motivation on this project. If I let the journal become too inactive than I feel that my project is moving the same way!

I did do some more research on FPS camera systems and I believe that I have a design in my head that will work. I also had the revelation that the physics abstraction layer that I intend to write should merely be a bridge between Newton's Enigma and the physics engine... There is little need to write a generic abstraction layer for all of the physics engine's features, only write methods when I actually need work done and leave it up to the implementation to figure out how to call the engine.

I have also been thinking of how to handle collision geometry and I am hoping to implement that in Blender... I had originally planned to have the collision geometry editable in Ogitor but that might not be an effective use of time.