Ever since I caught a glimpse of the elegant PaperMod theme of Hugo static site builder, I knew I got to use it. While PaperMod theme is very slick and fast it has a few minor drawbacks, which need to be addressed. One of them being wrong height of the title page when navigation element is wrapped. This looks kinda cumbersome mainly on mobile devices, where, the page is just too high when no content is shown....
(Well it’s been some time I’m aware… well college and stuff.., was little busy.) Anyway some improvements were made. New Language selector screen was added. Translator and UTF-8 First big thing is Translator which is simple static class that offers method translate(String& key)(obviously). Usually it’s good thing to separate strings that are shown to user from strings in source code, preferably store them in some .txt file. Also adding another language is as simple as adding another lang file and registering the language in code....
Gotta admit that in this update there was really not much in Terraria clone (Sandbox project). Nevertheless here are some minor tweaks for the Terraria clone: Optimized Particle renderer Fixed particle fadeaway effect Once again added support for spawning particles using Lua. Now for the many new things in the engine itself (NiceDay project): Mono C#, Added crude support for using C# as another scripting language (apart form Lua) If hotswaps are enabled, application will look every second at Managed....
The amount of data in blocks.cpp has become impossible to maintain. I decided to outsource the data to json files located in res/registry. There is no space in cpp code for that! To add new block, one no longer needs to write an entry in header file as well as cpp files. To add a new block: 1. add entry to blocks.ids (choose unique id for the block) 2. add json map object to blocks....
Well, it has been 5 months since last TIMELINE entry, but that doesn’t mean that I haven’t done anything, not even close! As it’s obvious from the title Engine now finally has full Sound support. There are three main parts to this madness: libogg (for loading sound streams) libvorbis (for decoding ogg sound streams) and finally portaudio to play the data and yeah of course the thing I wrote… Gotta admit that I was considering using some already available sound engines, mainly OpenAL but since it’s not entirely free to use (API is, implementation is not) I decided to write my own....