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Okra (Common Lisp bindings for the Ogre3D engine) hasn't seen a lot of work lately. It covers my current needs and I've mostly been off to other projects. However, there's good news from the Ogre camp: there's now a community effort to create a C API! I can only hope the API will have settled...
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ProgressI have made very little progress since the last report, mainly due to the little time that was available to me. Only two things were done: The source code was cleaned up a little. A windows binary was made (OpenGL only). In the short term I will not work on ETOTP anymore but perhaps...
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1 ProgressSince the last report I've added: a controllable spaceship, bullets, tentacles and I made an unsuccessful attempt at producing a Linux binary.For the controls I use the OIS library. I was already familiar with this due to my clois-lane library. The controls work but don't feel quite...
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IntroductionI've finally managed to scramble together a good couple of hours to work on my ILGE 2010 entry. At this rate it will be doubtful whether I'll have a minimal game by the end of this month :-( The first item that can be checked off the to-do list: rolling terrain. The video is low...
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I've uploaded one-and-a-half project to GitHub that may or may not be useful to other people: Black Tie packages the noise functions that were previously in Okra as a seperate library. It is not very extensive yet and has only been optimized for SBCL. At the moment it includes functions for...
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I was installing Debian (testing release) on a netbook since my main laptop is away for repairs and I noticed the Ogre packages in the distribution. So far I have always compiled Ogre and its dependencies myself so I was curious how much work it would take to get the Okra examples running. Not...
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Thanks to CL-GTK2's author Dmitry Kalyanov for his help and patience and also thanks to several #lisp residents for testing some of my builds. Go to http://www.aerique.net/software/okra-gtk-demo/ for the downloads. This post should be treated more as a work-in-progress report1 than as the blog I...
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Torchlight has been released by Runic Games. It's is a hack & slash game in the grand tradition of Rogue, Diablo and Diablo 2. Key people that worked on the last two titles have also worked on Torchlight. The reason I blog about this is because it uses Ogre for its graphics engine which is...