Sep 02 2011 Online Highscores…

I have just fin­ished im­ple­ment­ing an on­line high­score list in “Noten­spiel”. Zom­biehunt will get this very soon too.

I main­ly fol­lowed a tu­to­ri­al at Code­schleud­er (If link is bro­ken, this on­line pro­gram …

Sep 02 2011 Rendering Text!

I some­how feel hap­py about fi­nal­ly be­ing able to ren­der Text ;)

I’m us­ing the Freetype Li­brary and OpenGL. I thought about us­ing SDL TTF, but some­how I end­ed up de­cid­ing on this :)

This post was im …

Aug 29 2011 World optimization (lvl 1): Bugs

Okay, here are a few bugs in or­der of ap­pear­ance:

It wouldn’t both­er if you could on­ly look at the world from above, but… imag­ine a moun­tain look­ing like this! (I al­so like how you can see the dif­fer …

Aug 29 2011 “Notenspiel” got an Update!

Since I am mak­ing this game for some­body who wants it to be fin­ished rather soon, I thought I’d fo­cus on this a bit and hope­ful­ly fin­ish this project. The game is now spawn­ing notes with ledger lines:

Next thing I …

Aug 28 2011 World optimization: level one

One of my last posts was about back face culling. This was be­cause of my per­for­mance prob­lem while try­ing to ren­der 130 000 blocks smooth­ly. I al­so said I was go­ing to op­ti­mize the world da­ta a lit …

Aug 21 2011 Now using Ubuntu!

Af­ter get­ting the X-th virus on my com­put­er (with Win­dows XP Pro­fes­sion­al), I de­cid­ed to start us­ing Ubun­tu 11.04. I like it pret­ty much, al­though I’m still a bit ir­ri­tat­ed by …

Aug 21 2011 back-face culling

I re­cent­ly found a tu­to­ri­al on back-face culling. It means telling OpenGL not to draw in­vis­i­ble faces (faces on the back side ;) ) of a mesh, which does speed up the ren­der­ing a lot.

I was look­ing for some­thing …

Aug 10 2011 Mouselook and SDL - Code

Okay, here is some code for mouselook with SDL…

struct {
              int x, y;
              //In this case: the position where the mouse is held at
              bool trap; //flag for holding mouse at one place
          } mouse;

          void MouseMotion(){
              /* Set x and y to the current mouse position */
              int x, y;
              SDL_GetMouseState(&x …