Blog de MC

Collision handling turned out to be harder than expected… To get it working quickly, I relied on a bounding sphere for every models. The spheres are centered on the isobarycenter of the model and have for radius the distance of this point to the farthest vertex of the model. This is far from the perfect fit possible for a given model, but was faster to code. The way it works is that game objects register themselves during their update pass to the collision handler. Afterwards, the collision handler solves collision of the registered assets.

Progress is going quicker now, now that all the building blocks are in place. With the component based approach, getting different behaviors by applying carefully new logic that was just written becomes very easy. For instance:

Now I can start working on the engine itself!

It does feel good to start seeing stuff move around. The broken rendering on the minimap is strange but I haven’t looked at it yet, so probably nothing to be worried about?

This is my first post, how exciting! Here is where the project is at (initial push to GitLab):