ShiningRockSoftware

What? How did I not write anything about my work for 5 months? Let's fix that. I've got code rot. shiningrocksoftware.com/2022-04-17-cod…

I added controller support to the game I'm building. Now that I can sit and play-test on the couch, will I get less done? shiningrocksoftware.com/2021-11-17-ui-…

Been making my UI rendering cleaner at different resolutions. Even if my current programmer art doesn't show it off well. shiningrocksoftware.com/2021-11-05-ui-…

Sigh, I made my GPU crash today. That hasn't happened in a while. While I figure that out, here's more on my recent UI system changes. shiningrocksoftware.com/2021-10-19-ui-…

Still at it. I rewrote the way my user interface works because... shiningrocksoftware.com/2021-10-05-ui-…

I added start walk and end walk clips to my character movement animations. Looks nicer than a straight blend into the walk cycle loop. Slightly tricky when the target location needs to be a specific place. #screenshotsaturday

I got a motion capture suit so I don't have to hand animated humanoids. Yay! shiningrocksoftware.com/2021-03-15-dev…

I've been working on the core system that drives the villagers for my new project. More here: shiningrocksoftware.com/2021-02-16-des…

Long unused features of the game engine never seem to work on the first try as I bring them into use. There's always one or two minor bugs. How did they work properly the last game?

I love that I can just switch to art or design when I want a break from coding. Solo dev!

It's one of those days where I keep stopping what I'm doing to fix threading problems.

What's that? the dev log is being updated again? Yay! shiningrocksoftware.com/2021-01-13-sav… Oh, it's just rambling about how save games are implemented.

Oh. It's Wednesday.

I keep meaning to do #screenshotsaturday, but I'm never working that day. So tuesday it is. shiningrocksoftware.com/2019-01-30-art…

I tried to use the Volume::Sphere class today and it just wasn't there. I went through the last eight years without a Sphere class in my 3d game engine. Amazing.

Yay! Save and load works! Even with an existing codebase that could save and load, a bunch had to change, but waaay better than starting from nothing.

Refactored some code a year ago that involved save games and I didnt test it. Broken of course. Facepalm.

Working on save and load support today. Already to the point where it's hard and slow to test things without it.

I maintain that making games is hard. So much work to make characters walk around things and not through things. shiningrocksoftware.com/2018-10-04-thi…

Starting a new game project is hard. There's nothing there, just a blank terrain... so many things to implement!