Doxygen
Lately I've been using Doxygen throughout all of my code. You might think it's a bit over the top or unnecessary to use a documentation generator for projects that are never going to involve more than yourself, but I have to say that if you dont use it - you should! I found that being able t…

Abstract Interfaces
Lately I've been brushing up on some of the more advanced c++ topics. The book I've found really helpful in this is C++ for Game Programmers. Something that I've picked up from this book and really want to use in my current projects are Abstract Interfaces. Here's a quick example…

New Features
The engine now uses VBOs (Vertex Buffer Objects) almost exclusively aside from the use of display lists as a fall back option (for < OpenGL 1.5 graphics hardware) and for rendering FreeType fonts. I've also re-wrote some of the texture support code to support both 24-bit and 32-bit …

TrueType Fonts
I'm no longer using bitmap fonts, thanks to the FreeType Library I can render TrueType fonts at much higher quality than I was initially. Here's a shot to prove it:



(True Type font is the bottom one [smile])

XML Parsing (TinyXML)
Just added really basic support for using XML to define '…

Wow, it's been two months since my last post! Unfortunately I haven't really been up to much over the past 8 weeks, but just recently (today) I have started work on an Isometric Game. Here's the result of my work so far:



Not much I know, but it's a start. The full list of features are:

• OpenGL Rend…

Two assignment deadlines fall within this week and before I can even start work on them, there are one or two other things I have to get done first. So you will have to excuse either the lack of updates or at least the lack of - interesting - updates for the next week.

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Hello GDNet, how's it going?

I've not exactly been the most active member of this community since my registration - more of a lurker really - so I guess an introduction is called for. Well my name is Adam, and I'm a Computer Games Programming student. Over the coming months, I'll be using this journ…