So if you’ve never played Homeworld 2, then too bad for you because you missed out. Big time. That being said, when attempting a mod of it, I was immediately inspired by how unbelievably modular and streamlined it was. It’s a space combat simulation with incredible levels of detail and realism, and it was modded in to a naval combat sim with the same level of detail, and graphics to make it look like it’s own game. This is with no actual access to the engine source code. So I’m like: DAYUM SON.
I am attempting to create a modular engine of the likes. You could also compare this engine to the Cortex Command engine, but CC is a totally different beast, because of it’s focus on pixel graphics and physics.
I’ve had one false start already, because I hadn’t thought the iterface through entirely. Abstracting a camera as an actor makes sense, but only if you can unify it under the controller class, which would be a horrible mess. Also, in order to get the root entity crap to work, and still have a new entity add itself to the singleton engine, I had to derive an otherwise worthless class to do this, in order to keep GetSingleton() from locking up the first time it’s called.
In other words, a disaster of bad code. I’ve taken a few lessons in engine design away from it though, and I will start a new one, hopefully with less fail. I’m drawing up a new inheritance tree right now.
And in terms of life, it’s being something of a bitch and something of a thing which is awesome. I let slip about how I’m a rollercoaster of genetic disorders that will crash and burn before my time, and Travis just said, “well, we’ll make it a time ’till then, brother.” Which I found extremely heart warming but also extremely sad. Sigh. It bugs me that I still can’t tell if I’ll be leaving anything behind, and it’s a loss for someone no matter what the case.
You should all check out Inhuman Comic, because it’s more baller than your mom’s genetalia. OOOOO BURN.
That’s about it for now.
musings of ninjarat 