I am beyond frustrated with game programming today. I thought I was nearly finished coding for the next Eyes of the Dragon tutorial. But, man, was I fooled! First, I would make a change. That required a change somewhere else, which meant two over here. The trickle became a deluge. Soon, I could not remember what I had changed. Thankfully, Visual Studio is quite anal about remembering what has changed. So there will be no tutorial tonight. I spent far too much time patching holes in the damn, trying to keep it from bursting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, obviously, tutorial eight in Eyes of the Dragon 4.0 is next. This tutorial takes a deeper dive into the editor, adding a message box and a file dialog. It also addresses some issues I found revolving around the rendering of fonts. Inexplicably, the text would vanish. It was related to textures and rendering on partial pixels. A lesson to be learned if you’re going to render text, make sure you render it on whole pixels. This tutorial after this one will bounce back to A Summoner’s Tale, where I will spend some time with the editor again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, now, I think I will spend some time working on Eyes of Inashti tonight. (What is my fascination with eyes?) I will be spending at least some time on tutorial eight, though. Right now. Well, as soon as I’m done here. How long I spend writing text will depend on how well writing code goes, or vice versa. I don’t know which I will start with. It might be the tutorial because I am already in text mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having to deal with a tempest in a teacup really stained my evening last night. Things that just should have worked really had me cursing at my monitor, which I rarely do. I did solve it this morning, which pleased me to no end. However, it was time for work at that point. Anyway, I’m going to wrap this up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Cynthia<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"