So it’s been a day of maintenance.  I’ve been merging all the VectorStorm library changes back into the public library trunk.  I’m about halfway through;  I’ve got the Mac build working, I’ll get the Win32 build going tomorrow.  The screenshot here is the original 3D sample that you may remember from ages back. Notable changes:…

I’ve spent a day working on VectorStorm engine improvements, today.  Those who aren’t interested in technical details should probably skip the rest of this post;  sorry, guys! Here’s the list of improvements: 2D Display lists now correctly calculate their bounding boxes, even if there are transforms applied within the display list.  (previously, transforms within a…

Inside VectorStorm, there’s a function vsClamp;  it looks like this: #define vsClamp(a,min,max) ( vsMin( max, vsMax( min, a ) ) ) (modified for legibility;  C/C++ coders, no need to warn me about how painfully dangerous that code snippit is. :) ) You’d use it like this: vsClamp(1, 0, 10) -> 1 vsClamp(0, 10, 20) ->…

So I’ve been looking around at various input devices again, and pondering about how VectorStorm might support them.  Tablets and styluses and light guns are, of course, easy, as from software’s point of view, they’re basically just mice which have cursors which ought to vanish when their buttons aren’t being held down..  the VectorStorm engine…