{"author_name":"timtipgames","cat":"LD #27","comments":[],"epoch":1379829120,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"37847","p_author":"timtipgames","p_authorkey":"15341","p_urlkey":"73463","p_title":"\u201cProgress\u201d","p_cat":"LD #27","p_event":"LD27","p_time":"1379829120","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"0","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"15341","us_name":"timtipgames","us_username":"timtipgames","event_start":"1377216000","event_key":"18","event_name":"LD27"},"text":"

I spent a few hours yesterday wrestling visual studio and blender. It’s unbelievable how many convenience shortcuts and refactor tools Visual Studio C++ is missing in comparison to what I am used to from eclipse and Java. Maybe I am just to stupid to find the cool features of Visual Studio, but I really wish I had started with CDT from the beginning…<\/p>\n

Nevertheless I was able to establish a very rudimentary workflow that enables me to uv-map things in blender, create basic scenes in xml format and display everything with lights and shadows in a Horde3D scene. I also got Coment<\/a>\u00a0– an entity component framework for C++ – to work. Everything takes really long because there’s so many things that I either don’t know or that are just overcomplicated \":)\"<\/p>\n

Horde3D is based completely on shaders and doesn’t use the fixed pipeline. That leaves room for a lot of things you can do with it by writing own shaders and I think I want to focus on writing my own shader for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

Don’t know if I will come up with a game \u00a0in the end, but I am really enjoying to learn some new stuff and leaving my java\/libgdx\/2d comfort zone for a while. I have a cool idea for an educational game (yes, educational games can be cool) but I think everything takes far too long for me to get it done this weekend.<\/p>\n

Hope you guys are having fun too \":)\"<\/p>\n

\"MiniLD<\/a>

MiniLD “Progress”<\/p><\/div>","time":"September 22nd, 2013 12:52 am","title":"\u201cProgress\u201d"}