Programmatic Mayhem

Or how I learned to stop worrying and love compiler errors

Programmatic Mayhem

Or how I learned to stop worrying and love compiler errors

(WIP) Light Attenuation

The blog post where I pretend to know about math

Posted on October 25, 2020

If you want your game to look good, you gotta have good lighting. At a very basic level, light sources are broken up into 3 basic types: directional, spot light, and point light. [Read More]

Tags: C++ OpenGL Shaders Lighting

Using the same Typeless Container we architected in Blog Post #3, we can make a kick-ass config system that can accept any type of variable. Here’s the header of the container, with a few key changes: Instead of a vector, we will be accessing the generic type wrapper with an... [Read More]

Tags: cpp oop multithreading

A Typeless Container

For when you sometimes wish C++ was a little more like JavaScript

Posted on October 8, 2020

Do silly constructs like “classes” sometimes get in the way of your programming? Are loosely typed languages “too loose” for you? Well boy, do I have a blog post for you! I was fiddling around with my OpenGL game engine and decided to make a container that can store and... [Read More]

Tags: C++ oop

Class Registration During Static Init

Tricking C++ to do your bidding

Posted on October 3, 2020

Have you ever wanted to identify a class simply by supplying a string? You and me both, buddy. I was working on a personal game project and I wanted to define a level by feeding the program a CSV file containing the spatial layout. I identify different types of enemy... [Read More]

Tags: C++ oop

A Simple Read-Write Locked Container

Posted on September 27, 2020

Thread Contention in C++ A huge sticking point in multi-threaded programming is concurrent access of the same variable. The simple solution to this problem is to create a mutex, and lock the mutex in any part of code that touches your “danger” variable. A slightly more sophisticated access pattern is... [Read More]

Tags: C++ multithreading

Programmatic Mayhem

Programmatic Mayhem

(WIP) Light Attenuation

The blog post where I pretend to know about math

Making a Config System

A Typeless Container Pt II (Electric Boogaloo)

A Typeless Container

For when you sometimes wish C++ was a little more like JavaScript

Class Registration During Static Init

Tricking C++ to do your bidding

A Simple Read-Write Locked Container