Monthly Archives: February 2011

Saving completed, sound issue sidestepped

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Alex

Saving functionality is complete.  All ships, projectiles, gravity walls, and of course the player have save and load functions which slot themselves into the relevant XML in the appropriate save directory, and restore themselves appropriately on load.  Which is, I … Continue reading →

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Saving: When and where

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Alex

Saving and loading is the task of the day.  I’m rapidly becoming comfortable with rapidXML (harr) now that I’m using it a lot in a short period of time. The question in terms of design, though, is save types.  Exactly … Continue reading →

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Planet data: More flexibility

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Alex

While writing the LUA “planetTick” function, I came to the conclusion that requiring modification of the C++ core to add new kinds of data to planets runs counter to the premise of user modifiability.  So I’ve added an “extra data” … Continue reading →

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