It's not just output anymore!

Well the last couple of nights I've had some time to do some work and managed to get the input side of the house in order. I created an input listener component that is strikingly similar to the scriptable component. It is given a lua script to run and is passed in the latest input state to act upon. I'm not 100% sure if having separate components for handling input as well as handling running a script without input makes sense but I'll deal with refactoring one away in the future if I find that it's redundant. I was amazed again at how easy it was to hook things up using tolua++. I just needed to add the new input state struct to my list of bindings and viola it was a go.

One thing that is becoming apparent is that generating scenes through a script instead of a static data file is the better way to go. Whenever I need to add a new component to my model it means updating the scene file parsing code. If I had just gone the route of a script I would just have to expose the new component generation methods instead. I haven't gone ahead with ditching the scene file yet but it's only because of my limited amount of time. Once I get some more time I'll go back in and rework things.

While working in a coffee shop in the University district of Seattle I was showing off my GD.net colours for all to see! No one came to ask me about developing games . I blame my haggard look on a late night hockey game I had early in the week. I just can't burn the candle at both ends like the good old days.