December Milestone<\/h2>\n
Started on December 10th<\/em> The first thing that I wanted to do was to move my code to a hosted online repository.<\/li>\n I’ve been using this code base for all of the Game Development Club Game Jams and it was becoming very messy so I wanted to clean it up.<\/li>\n In order to make drawing different shapes easier I wanted to create classes that would handle this for me and generate display lists automatically.<\/li>\n Common game settings such as resolution should be stored outside of the game binary. Since YAML is clean and easy to read, I wanted store these properties in YAML.<\/li>\n Create a GUI System that consists of buttons, drop down lists, radio button groups, check boxes, text fields and sliders. Items would need to skinnable.<\/li>\n The existing Sprite classes should extend upon the drawing classes for rectangles. There should be sprite classes for a standard Sprite, Multiframe\/state Sprite, Animated Sprite, Sprite with sliding texture coordinates and a tiled sprite.<\/li>\n Create a Stage Objects class to simplify common operations such as rotation, translation and generating bounding boxes.<\/li>\n Create Classes for Vectors of 2, 3 and 4 dimensions and Matrices of 2×2 and 3×3.<\/li>\n Setup a testing framework using CMake<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n As you can see, most of the milestones were completed. I’m happy with the progress I’ve made over the last month. The code base is much tidier than it was before but in a few errors it needs to be touched up. I’ve moved all of my code to a private repository on BitBucket<\/a> which I’m finding along with Mercurial<\/a> to be excellent replacements for subversion and my local repository. I unified all of the building scripts into one CMake file. I’m wanting to update the resource managers in the future to allow for reference counts on items so that resources can be shared between game states.<\/p>\n When porting Platform Chunk Clump<\/a> I noticed that loading detailed YAML files was very slow on Windows. In the future I’m wanting to switch out using yaml-cpp<\/a> to something much faster.<\/p>\n I’ve attached several screen shots to show my progress.<\/p>\n From left to right. Tiled Sprite, Animated Sprite, Scrolled Sprite, Sprite<\/p><\/div>\n Variety of GUI Components in OpenGL<\/p><\/div>\n Polygon objects and Text with axis aligned bounding box, center(blue dot) and rotational center(pink dot)<\/p><\/div>\n Started on January 10th<\/em> Allow frame rate independent tweens to be placed on Stage Objects<\/li>\n Setup an Option Game State that can be used to set resolution, full screen, sound and music volume, key bindings and antialiasing<\/li>\n Modify existing parsers with adapter pattern to support either YAML or XML. Research XML libraries<\/li>\n Create a system that checks stage objects to see if they are offscreen(via bounding box) if so then create events to handle this<\/li>\n Create a system that allows for the easy creation of particle effects<\/li>\n Would be very handy.<\/li>\n Make use of managers with resource counts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nFinished on January 12th<\/em><\/p>\n\n
Migrate Project to online version control system<\/h4>\n
General Tidying up of the Code Base<\/h4>\n
Drawing Classes for Convex Polygons<\/h4>\n
Game Properties yaml file<\/h4>\n
GUI System<\/h4>\n
Improved Sprite Classes<\/h4>\n
Stage Objects classes<\/h4>\n
Math Vertex and Matrix Classes<\/h4>\n
Testing Framework<\/h4>\n
Milestone Progress<\/h2>\n
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Migrate Project to online version control system – Completed!<\/font><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
General Tidying up of the Code Base – Mostly Completed!<\/font><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
Drawing Classes for Convex Polygons – Completed!<\/font><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
Game Properties yaml file – Completed!<\/font><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
GUI System – Completed!<\/font><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
Improved Sprite Classes – Completed!<\/font><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
Stage Objects classes – Completed!<\/font><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
Math Vertex and Matrix Classes – Completed!<\/font><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n
Testing Framework – Completed!<\/font><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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January Milestone<\/h2>\n
\nExpected completion February 5th<\/em><\/p>\n\n
Tweening for Stage Objects<\/h4>\n
Option State<\/h4>\n
XML\/YAML Support<\/h4>\n
Stage Object Pruning<\/h4>\n
Particle effects<\/h4>\n
CMake Support for creating functional XCode and VC++ projects<\/h4>\n
Refactor all Resource Managers<\/h4>\n