Today I started learning UE4… As I think I mentioned before, I got a contract job which will start in November… For that work, I’ll have to work with Unreal Engine 4, so I need to learn it before I start… My first contact with it wasn’t that good… It takes forever to compile, run, […]
So, as the title implies, I’m still fighting the machine… In this case, my PC… First, I forgot to installl one zillion things, so everytime I want to do something I have to install something… Then, I decided to put in the new SSD and the new video card… The problem was that I apparentely […]
So back “online”, after I formatted the PC and reinstalled everything I need… Now that was boring… Anyway, today also arrived my new components, so I’ll spend the rest of today and most of tomorrow setting them up: Some of my codebases take forever to compile because I was using a mechanical HD for it… […]
So today, my Windows install died… :\ Might have been a coincidence, but that “Get Windows 10” thingy came back today, and I removed it again, as I’ve done in the past, but after the restart, the computer was getting stuck on the “Installing updates”… Left it for a couple of hours, and the mouse […]
As the title indicates, that’s done for now… Just missing the UI components, but I’ll work on those when I have the final art for it… Next step is playing the first 15 minutes or so of game with the controller, see how good does it feel, tweaking parameters, etc… The todo list is getting […]
Because of the specificities of the controller support, I added two (big) changes in the shooting system… One is that the equipment triggering is done on “button release”, instead of on “button press”… On “Gateway”, equipment is the teleporter, the grenades, everything that doesn’t actually shoot. Before, as soon as you clicked the right mouse […]
Added this to the game today, and it works fine, although it feels weird, especially since I spent the last one year playing the game with keyboard and mouse… Most of the work today was more game design related than tech, fine tuning parameters so that shooting feels fine/cool… For the normal weapons, I feel […]
Finished the movement code with the gamepad… The control system is dynamic, that is, if you start using the gamepad, the mouse cursor disappears and you’re in gamepad mode, but if you move the mouse, the cursor reappears and you can play with the keyboard and mouse again… That’s important, since there’s a lot of […]
Finished the groundwork for the gamepad support on Gateway… Went rather well, already got the menu control with the controller working, which is great! Tomorrow I’ll probably make the player move with the gamepad and maybe start on the shooting code as well… Without screenshots, these updates look very small! Now listening to “Instrumental Core”
Well, just finished to hack a version of GLFW that can work with DirectX… Basically, I just created a #define that allows to shut down all the OpenGL, window management, etc of GLFW, and built the library with it… It was rather simple, just time consuming (searching for all the OpenGL functions, etc). Now I […]