C++ Game Development (PEader's Worklog)
My trials and tribulations in getting back in to game development. Such as which engine to use, what compiler and other things of such important magnitude. 
Ogre3D All the way
After formatting my laptop several times I think i have it running as smooth as I can. So now I'm back to the 3D'ing.
I got a copy of Visual Studio 2005 and have dropped Irrlicht in favour of Ogre3D. It's a bit more of a top down learning process but I seem to be getting more out of the Ogre3D tutorials then the Irrlicht ones.
Everything in Ogre3D seems straight forward and makes sense to me. The name conventions are good. There are also loads of documentation.
Also the code completion on Visual Studio is excellent.
Next I might peek ahead and look at some other libraries. The Ogre3D input is meant to be pretty crap and I need something for physics. Choices, choices, choices.
Does anyone else find Visual C++ abysmally slow to compile? I heard rumours of it being the fastest compiler. Such lies.
I got a copy of Visual Studio 2005 and have dropped Irrlicht in favour of Ogre3D. It's a bit more of a top down learning process but I seem to be getting more out of the Ogre3D tutorials then the Irrlicht ones.
Everything in Ogre3D seems straight forward and makes sense to me. The name conventions are good. There are also loads of documentation.
Also the code completion on Visual Studio is excellent.
Next I might peek ahead and look at some other libraries. The Ogre3D input is meant to be pretty crap and I need something for physics. Choices, choices, choices.
Does anyone else find Visual C++ abysmally slow to compile? I heard rumours of it being the fastest compiler. Such lies.
(Posted on June, 6th 2006, 14:17)
Comments
yonni said:
I found that visual c++ doesnt support the windows API, and i couldnt get it set up to after following every turotial on it that i could find. I find that code::blocks doesnt compile anything, and the text editor in dev-c++ is shite.
In my opinion, visual C++ is the best, as long as you don't want to program windows apps.
In my opinion, visual C++ is the best, as long as you don't want to program windows apps.
(Posted on June, 6th 2006, 23:31)
PEader said:
#include <windows.h> doesn't work?? I don't like Visual C++ it has some nice featues though like the way when you change something a yellow bar appears beside that line and then when you save the program the yellow bar turns green. That is excellent.
The best IDE editor that I have used recently is Netbeans for Java althought I still like the text editing abilities of Editplus I think you need the integrated crap like code complition.
The best IDE editor that I have used recently is Netbeans for Java althought I still like the text editing abilities of Editplus I think you need the integrated crap like code complition.
(Posted on June, 7th 2006, 23:21)
Fiona said:
"I found that visual c++ doesnt support the windows API"
Wtf? Haha. It does.
Wtf? Haha. It does.
(Posted on June, 8th 2006, 17:10)