Nov 05 2018 Standard and User-Defined Conversions

~ 3 minute read.

I just came across a sur­pris­ing bug in my code which I did not ex­pect to cause any prob­lem at all. The sim­pli­fied code goes like this:

void foo(const std::string& str) { printf("string!"); }

          void foo(const bool b) { printf("bool!"); }

          // ...

          foo("0 …

Oct 26 2018 Poco 1.9.0: Data to SQL

~ 2 minute read.

Mov­ing from POCO 1.9.0 to 1.9.1, Poco Da­ta to SQL names­pace.

Oct 09 2018 WebVR Ramblings

~ 2 Minute Read.

Late­ly, I’ve been im­mers­ing my­self in var­i­ous frame­works and en­gines to build We­b­VR con­tent.

To­mor­row is a big day, that apart from me not many peo­ple will no­tice un­til fur …

Oct 04 2018 UE4: Deprecating Symbols

~ 3 Minute Read.

I find my­self googling for how to dep­re­cate UENUM, USTRUCT, UCLASS, UPROPERTY, UFUNCTION in Un­re­al En­gine 4 ev­ery now and then. With this blog post I hope to pro­vide a ref­er­ence for how to do this for …

Aug 27 2018 VRIDE

< 1 Minute Read.

For those who fol­low what I do on twit­ter, you will have no­ticed, that I cre­at­ed the mag­num-vr-ui quite a while ago. That ba­si­cal­ly got the Magnum::Ui li­brary in­to VR with the Ocu­lus Rift …

Aug 20 2018 Printf bit me

< 1 Minute Read.

Work­ing on an Un­re­al En­gine 4 project, I had a strage is­sue with their FString::Printf(format, args...) func­tion (which is ba­si­cal­ly just call­ing _vsntprintf).

The fi­nal is­sue was that I was try­ing to …

Aug 18 2018 Porting Point Light Shadows to WebGL2

~ 1 Minute Read.

I re­cent­ly port­ed the “Won­der­land En­gine”, Vhite Rab­bit’s in­house game en­gine, to web us­ing web as­sem­bly and We­bGL with Em­scripten.

Dur­ing this process the point light shad­ows that we cre …

Aug 12 2018 UE4 Automation Testing

9 minute read.

Have you ev­er had a fea­ture in an Un­re­al En­gine game that you had to come back to again and again, be­cause it was a nest of bugs? This gives you this un­easy feel­ing of that part be­ing un­sta­ble …