July has been a quiet month with posts, however development continues. Holidays. Being busy at work. Having custom work to complete outside work etc.... the month has just disappeared.
Deciding that my own custom GUI components wasn't the best way to spend my time, I started development on Decade in C# using Tao for OpenGL. Development is slow but steady. I am currently adding in the file parsers for the 3D file formats and then terrain loaders/generators. With this complete it will be on par with Decade and I can begin working on my Sandbox Editors.
There are no screenshots to show, because I am using the same media as Decade and the screenshots look identical. Hopefully I will get some more spare time soon and can get the rest of the current in development work completed.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Thursday, June 07, 2007
Decade .NET
For the past number of days I have been contemplating moving Decade to .NET. Programming the GUI Interface has raised this issue. I am currently spending allot of time programming a GUI System so that I can make Level Editors and a range of other tools for Decade.
Drawing and managing the controls myself was inspired by Unreal Tournament, however my results are nothing like this. I don't have the artwork or the time to match these results. In truth my rendered buttons do not look much different to those I created almost 10 years ago when making simple Mode13h Dos Games. In short, with this method I am spending allot of time with little gain and not really learning anything.
Another possibility would be to make the GUI in WIN32, therefore keep the engine as C++. This would save time in now requiring me to rewrite the engine, however I find GUI work in WIN32 to be hideous.
Although requiring the most work and the most time, I think that converting Decade to C# is the best course of action. With this I get to refresh my C#, learn some more .NET and have a nice and simple way to create good Gui's for my tools. To help me with this I have found The Tao Framework. This will help allot in using OpenGL with C#.
If anyone has any comments or ideas on this plan I would like to hear them.
Thanks
Drawing and managing the controls myself was inspired by Unreal Tournament, however my results are nothing like this. I don't have the artwork or the time to match these results. In truth my rendered buttons do not look much different to those I created almost 10 years ago when making simple Mode13h Dos Games. In short, with this method I am spending allot of time with little gain and not really learning anything.
Another possibility would be to make the GUI in WIN32, therefore keep the engine as C++. This would save time in now requiring me to rewrite the engine, however I find GUI work in WIN32 to be hideous.
Although requiring the most work and the most time, I think that converting Decade to C# is the best course of action. With this I get to refresh my C#, learn some more .NET and have a nice and simple way to create good Gui's for my tools. To help me with this I have found The Tao Framework. This will help allot in using OpenGL with C#.
If anyone has any comments or ideas on this plan I would like to hear them.
Thanks
Monday, June 04, 2007
Update
Decade Engine is still alive. It has been about 10 days since I worked on it. Last week I had holidays and I also got a new acoustic guitar so was distracted from programming for a short while. In the few hours that I did work on the engine focus was on making GUI Components and the GUI Manager. I hope that buttons, combo boxes, list boxes, edit boxes etc... will all be supported soon and I can start work on mesh and level editors.
Hopefully I will have some screenshots soon, but so far development in this area has been allot of functional stuff so nothing nice to show.
Hopefully I will have some screenshots soon, but so far development in this area has been allot of functional stuff so nothing nice to show.
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