Plan for Mike Lawrence

Something for the community and more diaries of the struggling newblet

I've written an article on using real-world data for your heightfields in TDN. I remember seeing some general info about it, so I thought I'd put together a detailed procedure. You can read it Here.


In the guerilla marketing department, I've created the first draft of my game logo. It gives a hint of what we're going for here.



And, finally, my current quest is to modify the engine to support additional character animations such as walking. (gasp!)

C++ syntax is irritating me. Foo* = dereferened pointer. *foo = pointer to function. foo * bar = multipy. In a header file: Variable * Foo (return something) = wtf, over? argh. The O/S independent implementation of Torque is very cool. Unfortunately, M$, as usual is insisting on its own standard with managed classes and delegates. So everything just gets more confusing.

Look for me to be spamming the developer forums soon with newblet C++ questions.

I'm also working on an exterior ballistics article for TDN. This will show how to introduce a ballistic coefficient based on a procedure developed by Mark Owen. It will also include some information on how to randomize impact points of projectiles so they don't all hit in the same place.

OK, that's it for this month.

-MJL