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# Couch, the Last Bastion of Interactive Arts Co-operation
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## Technical Specifications
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- OpenGL is the only officially supported backend
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- GLEW to wrangle extensions
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- GLFW3 for handling windows and whatnot
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- Targets Windows, Linux
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2021-01-14 11:52:01 -06:00
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- ~~Guile with GOOPS as scripting language~~ ~~Lua is the scripting language with Guile as a stretch goal~~
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- Python?
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2021-01-12 14:09:38 -06:00
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- No editor planned
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## Roadmap
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### Programmable Balls
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I want my balls to be programmable, I need to create a few key classes
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1. Balls, duh
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2. Transforms, which represent position (of my balls)
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3. Camera, to look at my balls
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4. Shaders, to render my balls
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2021-01-14 11:52:01 -06:00
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### Programmable Balls Postmortem
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Everything seems to work, but we need a system of what goes in the scene
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I think a scene tree like the one in Godot would be cool
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I keep switching scripting languages, can I make it so it's programmable in many languages, switchable via command line?
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2021-01-14 12:50:20 -06:00
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### Windows Compatible
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I want to be able to build this for Windows
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- I have no clue what that entails
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- CMake?
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- How to run SWIG on windows?
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2021-01-15 15:43:32 -06:00
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### Windows Compatible Postmortem
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Pretty brittle as a result of needing to download Windows binaries, but it works
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Eventually, we might need to include the source files as submodules, and build them all with CMake
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For now, what we've got is good
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### Better error messages
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Okay, now I want a message other than "main.lua not found!" if the lua file fucks up.
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Also, I want Lua errors to kill the program with an error message and a stack trace.
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2021-01-19 16:01:37 -06:00
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### Added model importing
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I did this without writing about it in the roadmap. I still want to add a way to get multiple meshes on the same model, but
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I'll save skeletal animation until we have a working physics system
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### Refactoring pass
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I want to clean things up and see if some of the code can be combined into multiple files.
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Also, I want a better user experience, so I might wind up removeing the %includes from the
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swig files and customizing the interface by hand. I also want to add a whole mess of constants
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so that I don't have to test for keypresses. Lastly, I want to test if a function exists before
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calling it from the lua file, so stubs aren't necessary to prevent a crash
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- [ ] Combine files
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- [ ] Better interface
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- [ ] Constants for keys and the like
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- [ ] No crash on calling non-existant scripting hooks
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