Saaa wrote:
That is some amazing game dev framework!
How is everything licensed?
Thanks! MIT/BSD. There are licenses in a few spots, but we were too lazy
to add them everywhere :P
For instance, I started out with loads of global variables and like almost
no knowledge
about oop and now I better understand modules and oop, things get nicely
packaged and
the global variable list is slinking.
Cool :) I hope you haven't exchanged them for singletons, which are for
the most part excuses for having globals and pretending not to have them
:P I usually shoot these on sight (unless they are justified) or replace
them with thread-local stuff. This said, a few spots in the 'xf' stuff
uses singletons, mostly because we didn't have the time/will to refactor
them out ;)
Everything I made can not do much beyond what it should be doing (opposite
the teamh0xf framework)
but that is what you get from being a one man show and try to focus half of
my attention to
AI research :D
Oh, sweet! Perhaps we'll have someone to bug about AI for Deadlock when
something is working again ;)
Why Cg? I used Cg for a bit but went back to GLSL because of its simplicity.
* access to the hot and latest NVidia extensions
* easy porting to DirectX ... just in case
* CgFX
* NVidia tools
* some support for pre-shader NVidia hardware, like the GeForce3
One last simple thing: In the Molly Rocket talk about immediate-mode guis a
comment is made
about some games not holding true to the convention that releasing the mouse
away from the
clicked button will not result in button click.
I think that in-game guis should not hold to this convention because of
three things:
1. it is faster and holding to the convention could become quit annoying
2. highlighting the hot buttons is more elaborate in games (well most of the
times of course)
3. faulty clicks are not that damaging
Depends ;P I'd take an adaptive approach. Start with the 'normal'
behavior, release it to testers and ask if they felt that any particular
widgets/types of buttons should have a different behavior. Then just
subclass the Button widget and be done with it.
--
Tomasz Stachowiak
http://h3.team0xf.com/
h3/h3r3tic on #D freenode
