Spinning Cubes

One weekend of coding on ZeroFps and watching episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Sad to say I made more progress on Bsg then on ZeroFps

A weekend of coding, mostly on Lua interfaces to the engine and the new techdemos of the engine. We even have a release date for it now. It’s someday this year at least .

I’m coding away on the ZeroFps engine and right now there are two major areas we are focusing on changing, the entity model of how we create the objects in the game and the editor.  I’m haxxoring on the editor and the goal is to make it more easy to use and also add some custom editors to it like one for particle systems. Right now it feels like we are walking backwards as all you can do in the engine is to create small blue boxes and move them around but soon I hope we will moving forward again. Next step, spheres .

To much code to write and to little time so no time to blog. But some quick observations.

• Armed Assault 2 looks as unstable as any other Bohemia game but it might still be fun, next weekend I will know.
• I hate mathematics.
• Americas Army 3 manage to be even more unstable then ArmaII but less fun.
• Php is not the language of the devil and soon I will have a new and better review section on this blog.
• Mathematics is the language of the devil.
• I make some progress on the zerofps animation system, time to update to a real state machine now.
• Did I mentioned that I hate mathematics?

Time to fix with the animation system in Zerofps. Lots of things that should be added and it’s a long time overdue . So if I can make some progress this weekend.

Dots & Lines

Now I make art and it’s ugly to . Not that it matter as its not my artistic visions that are the primary goal of this art session but rather a improved exporter for zerofps. I make a number of basic models and then I try to export them and see what problems I stumble on. As you can see from my first number of test models there is some problem in the exporter as they all display the error material for the engine. I will fix that bug first and then make some new models and try again. Then it’s all repeat until done or pass our of lack of sleep.

Failed export

Done with the update of the resource system and now i think i will spend some time making some content and try to use it a bit and see if it works as planned. The sad thing about that plan is as all the art people on our team are focusing on some competition they joined so all art will be made by me,  programmer art strikes again. Might be good that i get a chance to try things first and work out the most basic problems .

I hate being sick, been off for more or less two days with coma mode in bed. No fun . Today I managed some coding and I’m focusing on maya programming right now to get some tools for the art people on Alcestis. First version of a new exporter is done and now I hope they try it out so I know what parts of it needs improvement. Well of to bed again .