{"id":15,"date":"2010-06-12T18:02:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T22:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2011-02-16T06:15:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T11:15:05","slug":"15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"A new beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve unfortunately had to burn the previous effort to the ground. \u00c2\u00a0Ends up SDLs native sort of graphics mode is simply not compatible with openGL, it’s more there to provide a weird sort of backup in case openGL can’t run. \u00c2\u00a0It runs in software, pretty much, and can’t really do much beyond putting flat images and text on a screen. \u00c2\u00a0Of course, that only makes sense for pretty basic stuff- the plan “B” for a game if it finds OpenGL can’t run is to say “Are you fucking kidding me? \u00c2\u00a0I quit.” so I don’t really have to worry about that. \u00c2\u00a0Anyway, that was a dead end.\u00c2\u00a0 So I pretty much started over, with “The Red Book”.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve heard from a few sources that that is The Book for openGL. \u00c2\u00a0I’m about 50 pages in and about at atari level graphics, so, I guess since it’s about 700 pages long not counting appendices, that’s on course to look pretty nice by the time I get to the end.
\nAnyway, attached is the .exe.
\nMouse movement moves the pixel, q quits, r g b all change the pixels color, – reduces sensitivity, = increases it.
\nI plan on having turning the ship into a triangle that points the way it’s moving soon, and maybe add a projectile to shoot too. \u00c2\u00a0Maybe some collision detection and some moving targets. \u00c2\u00a0Then it will be time to read a bunch more.
\nOh, and the text file it spits out is basically just counting how many milliseconds pass between getting to the top of the main loop again.\u00c2\u00a0 I know premature optimizations are considered bad form, but it doesn’t hurt just to keep an eye on where you are.\u00c2\u00a0 I figure I want to try to keep that below 16 if I want to have 60 frames per second. \u00c2\u00a0Right now it’s mostly 0s, which means less than a millisecond passes between loop iterations, but then again, it’s hardly doing anything.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I’ve unfortunately had to burn the previous effort to the ground. \u00c2\u00a0Ends up SDLs native sort of graphics mode is simply not compatible with openGL, it’s more there to provide a weird sort of backup in case openGL can’t run. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-of-the-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.galacticsovereign.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}