Like any programmer I use a keyboard practically every day, and finding a decent keyboard that’s right for you can be somewhat of a lottery. Being sick of my spare keyboard which feels like typing on some squishy sea creature (my usual keyboard developed intermittent keys), I decided to visit a retail store so I […]
Often its easy to assume a computer controlled agent is working under some highly complex and “intelligent” rules. However as boids shows us that need not be the case. In the video despite a twisty complex path to follow and more cars than their should be in a small space, all the cars don’t end […]
One thing for sure is that correctly configuring a vehicle in a dynamics system, is more akin to a “black art” than a straight forward programming problem. There are multiple interconnected things to consider, for example friction side slip and suspension all interact to modify your vehicles behaviour, but are also effected by for example […]
Initially just to start getting to grips with BGFX I simply ported a simple C++ example to C, while avoiding using various parts of the example framework. While this proved that BGFX was indeed a viable prospect when used from C, a few multi-coloured cubes isn’t so useful, so I decided to take a scratch […]
Well while BGFX is an amazing renderer library, I don’t mind admitting I’ve found the initial learning curve fairly steep! Let me explain what I’m intending to do with BGFX (and you’d be forgiven for thinking I’m a masochist ! ) BGFX has a C API which is primarily intended for people to use when […]
Well this one should be easy ? Right ? obviously as C is pass by value if you’re passing a few pointers, they are smaller than passing 32 floats (2 Matrix structs). Well initially a quick trip onto godbolt and you can easily convince yourself its an open and shut case… looking at how a […]
As you may know I’m not much of a C++ fan, the whole point of source code is it should be human readable and it doesn’t take much to make C++ code look like someone’s sicked up a load of ascii on your code! and besides its much more fun being closer to the metal… […]
Well over the years I’ve evaluated loads of different engines, and often you find things that don’t quite cut the mark on your fist look. The first look with bgfx was with a 6 year old laptop using integrated graphics. Now integrated and graphics in the same sentence is no longer the horror it used […]
Every time I copy something from an exfat formatted USB stick, I keep on having to search for this simple one liner… As exfat doesn’t allow for permissions, when you copy directories back onto your hard drive, in order that the directory structure will work as intended, all the files are given executable permissions. Directories […]
First a quick word about “breakages” – I have to say the author of Raylib is a very careful coder (thankfully!) and ever since starting to use Raylib I’ve been able to track and use the master branch of Raylib on github, this does expose you to the occasional breakage, or usually more accurately a […]