Doolwind

The last week I’ve been working on making the graphics in CIC a little better than they are. I’ve created a new star field in Photoshop thanks to this tutorial. I wanted to keep the skybox textures to a maximum of 1024×1024 pixels which caused the star field to become quite pixelated. I had a Read More

Just a quick note to say I’ve finished the initial implementation of my ‘Help Bubble System’. Each User Interface item (button, image etc) can have two pieces of help information added to them. When you mouse over the item for a few seconds a small help bubble is displayed, and if you keep mousing over Read More

I’m back home again and enjoying my second week of holidays. Unfortunately it’s so incredibly hot and humid that it’s making life difficult to work in front of the computer. I decided to spend a few hours working out my schedule of what I need to do before I’m ‘feature complete’ for the tech demo. Read More

Again a lot has happened since my last post and I’ll try and remember everything I’ve been doing since I last reported in. Firstly, with Cliff’s help I tested CIC over the internet and it worked without a hitch. All the messages were passed around correctly and considering I haven’t put any timing code in Read More

I’ve made quite a bit of progress over the past week and have completed the core implementation of both the offensive and defensive states. Along with the ability to choose the path and type of missiles to fire the player can now select incoming groups of missiles and choose which counter missiles to fire at Read More

I’ve finally finished the first pass over my missile interception code. It took me quite a while to iron out the remaining bugs, but it’s all done now. I ended up having 3 bugs which were causing the missile to miss slightly, however now they’re fixed it’s looking quite good.