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This was originally going to be a reply to this thread, but I think it kinda took on a life of its own. Usually I keep my journal posts technical,...
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Matt328's Blog
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More Deferred Rendering
It's about time for my bi-yearly post here at gdnet, so here goes. I've gotten a single directional light working, a huge milestone after shelving...
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Model Loading / Deferred Rendering
Those two concepts don't necessarily have much in common, other than the fact that I've finished one and started another since my last journal...
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Short Update
Keeping in line with my rule #2 from last night's post, I was able to get my logger to send its log messages to my WinForms app. However the means...
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Lua Part (LuaParts.MaxValue)
Integrating Lua scripting into my game didn't exactly turn out as exciting as I thought it would. It is pretty sweet to type cube:SetPosition(x, y,...
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Lua Part 1
My last post did say something about once a week, so here I am. I was away for most of the weekend, but did manage to work on Avalanche on and off...
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Project Progress
Reviewing my infrequent journal posts, I realize how much trouble I have sticking to one project, and having said project really get anywhere. To try...
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Entity Animation
With a little implementation and more thought, I've realized a separate entity for explosions might not be the best way to go. Instead of destroying...
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Back to Basics
Let me reiterate something from my last post. Designing an engine is hard. Probably more so if you don't really have a grasp on what it needs to do,...
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GDNet+ Expires Soon
Oh noes! It looks like my GDNet+ subscription expires soon. I will probably get around to renewing it soon. Even though I don't post so much, I do...
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Avalanche
Thanks to some comments on my last post, I've been considering using WTL for the GUI of my editor component. After experimenting with Qt, and...
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Updates Once Again
I should first clear things up by saying I've read all the cautionary tales about 'make games not engines' and all that, and that would be well and...
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Progress and a few design details
I've decided that designing an input system at this stage of the game would be a little premature given that I really only *need* 2 mouse axes to...
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Slowly but steadily
The outcome of my last entry seems blatantly obvious now that I should continue on and save the level in a specific format that's easy to read and...
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Sorting out the Content Pipeline
I haven't posted in quite awhile, partly due to real life work, and partly due to the bit of design block I've been having which I think writing it...
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Level Editor First Look
Tonight's entry will be a short one, mainly just because I was playing around with the file manager and wanted to put up a screenshot of my work in...
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Level Editor Design
If you're reading this, it means I was able to transcribe the design in my head into a human readable form. I'da probably scrapped this entry if I...
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First Entry
I have decided after being a long time lurker and short time poster to break down and start one of these journals to document my various meanderings...
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