Claudius Taylor's Game Development Blog

I...I'm so sorry.

Features Added:

-Weapons now deal damage to the player

-Damage done to the player will cause a notification to appear informing the player of the direction of the source of the damage

Features Added:

-Decals (bullet holes) no longer appear on non-stationary objects

-Non-stationary objects are now propelled by impacts from weapon fire

-Player hit detection from weapon fire

-Other player with weapon that fires partially implemented (still buggy)

Features Added:

-Weapon dropping/picking up

-New machine-gun-like weapon (which implements the auto-fire feature)

Yesterday I promised and today I deliver!  We're going to have guns.  Lots of guns.

Features Added:

-On-demand reloading

-A new shotgun-like weapon

-Weapon switching (and the ability to have more than one weapon)

-Decals (bullet holes) remove themselves after a while

-Weapon impact control implemented (how many objects does a weapon's shot go through before stopping)

All code today, but some pretty exciting stuff

Features added:

-Support for items with health, items that can be picked up and dropped

-Player health, armor, multiple weapons, item inventory

-Weapon changing and weapon change delay control

-Framework laid for damage system and healing system for game objects with health (including players)

Again, this won't be a super exciting update, but I have managed to get some pretty important things done.  I've reorganized how weapons and the HUD work, and tied together some pretty big things in the code.  I've also added a new section, Engine, to the to-do list, which contains things that I need to get done in the code.

Features added:

-Weapon reloading

-HUD now shows current clip ammo and remaining ammo

-Weapon specifications can now be set (fire rate, accuracy, reload time, clip size, etc.)

Today's programming work was all internal, as it's not quite finished yet.  Expect tomorrow's update to be much more exciting, as the reorganization and cleaning of the code will allow me (once it's finished) to add things very efficiently.

Features Added:

-HUD element support

-Weapon settings support (fire rate, shots fired, clip size, etc.)

Features Added:

-Transparent 2D animations

-Decals (bullet holes, etc.)

-HUD Ammo Implementation

Issues:

-Decals' origins are in the corner of the projected image, causing them to be offset from the point at which they are placed

Workaround: Make decal images themselves offset

Possible Solution: 3D math to offset the images along the plane of their orientation

Bugs Found:

-Sprite sheets 1 frame wide or tall will not be animated

-Sprite sheets with uneven frames (2x3 instead of 2x2) will not be rendered correctly

Workaround: Both of the above problems can be fixed by making images square, and simply leaving the space for the extra frames transparent

  Features Added:

-Fading HUD text

-Multiple instances of identical sound playing at once

-3D position-based audio

-Position-based dual (near and far) audio track support

Features Added:

-3D Animation Support

-2D Imagery Support

-2D Animation Support

-Particle Effect Support

-HUD text printing

Issues:

Bugs Fixed:

-Fixed 3D HUD rendering glitch

-Fixed shadows rendering over 3D HUD

Features Added:

-Ray casting now fully-supported

-Skybox support added

-InputHandler now distinguishes between what is being pressed and what has just been pressed