Announcement: Beta code release

BBB · 2007-08-04T14:05:14

Those of you who've been following the progress of the NeHe site will be aware that some time ago a team of skilled volunteers was formed with the intention of producing fresh, up-to-date content for the site. Until recently we've unfortunately not had much in the way of progress visible to the public and we would like to take this opportunity to thank people for thier continued patience with the work the team has been and continues doing. Producing a good quality set of lessons that's worthy of carrying on the NeHe legacy is a large task, especially for a team of people doing this in what spare time they have available, but rather than compromise on quality the team has been hard at work to produce the best possible results. You may have noticed some recent updates to the NeHe site. You're now able to submit OpenGL related-news which if approved will be posted to the NeHe front page. The code for the site itself has also been cleaned up somewhat to improve stability and response time, and work on this front continues to go on behind the scenes. We're also happy to announce that the code for the first five of the new lessons has reached a stage where we're releasing it for public beta. At this point we must stress that this is a beta version of the code and as such may still contain bugs; if you encounter any problems or have feedback or questions about the code, please respond to this topic in the NeHe discussion forum, making sure to give plenty of detail of any bugs you may be reporting. Download the sample code here How the files are structured: Known issues with the current sample code include: #1: The #ifdefs are a temporary solution. This will be adressed before the final version. Please wait with submitting your project-files. #2: Some keys in the GLX-backend aren't translated (I couldn't make all of them work. These are clearly marked and help would be appreciated). #3: Improperly placed VisualStudio project-files. If you take a look under each lesson-directory you will see a /project-directory, and these contain sub-directories for specific window-backends and IDEs. So for example if you have made a project file for SDL and VisualStudio 8 then it should go in /lessonX/projects/windows/sdl/vc8. However, as mentioned earlier, we might do some final adjustments to the structure so please wait with making project-files for each lesson. We hope to have the accompanying lesson text available for public review shortly and will keep you updated on progress. In the meantime, we look forward to feedback on the beta code.

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Started by BBB March 03, 2007 09:11 AM

36 comments, last by Kazade 17 years, 6 months ago

Shadowrom

158

March 15, 2007 03:06 PM

First of all i'd like to say:

very very very nice work guys!

I am working on a Portable Game Engine for Win64 and Win32 atm and found some portability issues.
They're not critical but give ugly compiler warnings when compiling for WIN64.

The compiler complains about the OnKeyXXX(int ...) functions maybe you should change them to OnKeyXXX(WPARAM ...) .

this leads us to the nehekeydef.h:

the definitions have other values when using WPARAM (eg. NK_F1 = 112)

and last but not least in the neheWin32Window.cpp file you should replace

GWL_USERDATA with GWLP_USERDATA to avoid compiler errors when compiling for a WIN64 target.

that is about it and you're almost ready for 64bit ;-)

But besides this your new tuorial codes look very good.

lc_overlord

436

March 15, 2007 03:32 PM

The thing about keys on win32 is a known issue, the thing is that for the ascii keys all systems return the same value, but F1 is not an ascii key and therefore we need to add a translation matrix in there for each system, and for win32 that has not been done yet, but it's not that hard.

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_the_phantom_

11,263

March 15, 2007 10:46 PM

I knew there was something I meant to give feedback on;

// Really Nice Perspective CalculationsglHint(GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL_NICEST);

Get rid of this.
It is redundant and all vaguely modern hardware and drivers completely ignores it anyways.

Srki_82

122

March 18, 2007 09:30 AM

I made a port of nehebeta to Lazarus/FPC. Currently only SDL window manager has been ported (Win32 and GLX will be ported later).

Download the sample code here

Hybrid666

125

March 21, 2007 06:40 AM

Hi,

I was just wondering if this code has been run on Vista in fullscreen mode?
I have tried running old NeHe basecodes on Vista, and found them to run fine in wondowed mode but in fullscreen just display a black screen!

Is this a known issue at all?

Hybrid

Lazy Foo

1,113

March 21, 2007 10:42 PM

Is there an estimated time of completion? Winter or next Spring maybe?

Learn to make games with my SDL 2 Tutorials

Caste

973

March 22, 2007 02:05 AM

We can't give you an exact date for completion because we all are rather busy at the moment, but due to the fact that we only have to fix some bugs in the code, add some more comments and review all the lesson texts I hope we'll release before next winter [wink]..
(Well.. apart form that we're having 2 inches of snow right now, thats why I wrote next winter..)

@Srki: The Lazarus/FPC port looks good and runs fine, but much slower than the C++ code, did you notice any speed losses? (Mandriva 2007, FPC 2.0.4)

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Srki_82

122

March 22, 2007 02:27 PM

I have tested FPC port only on Windows, and performance is nearly the same as original C++ code.

Maybe someone that has Linux could debug FPC port and find that slowdown.