Tuesday, July 21, 2009

New Project and doh!

I should be ashamed of myself. I have gone and shelved my last project, yes the space one I was so excited about. But I did it in favour of a much simpler and feasible one and I intend going back to it at a later date.

So my new project is 2D, and is coming along nicely. The last thing I did was plugging in the Farseer Physics Engine to it.

I was thinking about writing my own physics library but then I'd be left with a complexity that I'm not really too concerned about. I took a look at the Farseer Demoes and it looks like it does pretty much I need it to do, and it has nice debug viewing library that it come in handing when trying to figure out what is going one.

I plugged in the Body and Geom in my entities, and a PhysicsSimulator, and shazam, they JustWorked™. But something was wrong, my two entities were not coliding.

After some debugging and deep thought at 8:30 in the morning, I scream DOH! (I have created a new PhysicsSimulator for each entity so they were totally unaware of each other), that's when my wife kicked me off the room saying: "I'm trying to write here!"

She is working on her PhD thesis.

2 Comments:

Blogger Lefantome said...

Hi, I see you're a scripter, what's the best language?LUA?Ruby?

Do you know some good books about scripting and AI?

Thanks for the advices.
Good Luck with Fable 3


take a look here:
http://community.lionhead.com/forums/thread/3387701.aspx

12:24 PM  
Blogger Hulshof said...

LUA is great! and it's widely used by a lot of the major studios. Certainly worth investing your time in.

6:30 PM  

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Gameplay and Cutscene Scripter At Lionhead Studios. Also 2D/3D Artist, Writer/Blogger, XNA enthusiast, and Videogame addict in my spare time.

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