XianForce's Blog

I used minIni, and compiled it into a static library. When trying to put it into play, I kept getting a strange access violation.

After much code reviewing, I found out that I had used or, instead of and (|| vs &&). So when one thing became true (in which I wanted EVERYTHING to be true), it short circuited and returned a true value, and didn't even run the other functions.

This caused a lot of things to not be initialized when they were used, and that's what caused the access violation.

So to go back and touch up on the ResourceSystem, I'm going to actually flesh out the SoundBank some time in the near future, then add a MusicBank, and a FontBank. The former two will be quite easily implemented, but I need to put some thought into the latter. To make a font bank, I need to make a text system of sorts.

With the text system, I REALLY want to implement a system so that I can confine the text to a box.

Once I'm done with this, I'll clean up the framework, and perhaps release it =D.

But anyways, onto Charge... The next thing for Charge is to finish up the WeaponSystem, so that different leveled weapons work right. I also need to fix the bullet speed and direction, which will allow some more interesting weapons. After that, I want to create power up system, and sync it with the weapon system and EnemySystem.

I'm still unsure of how I should make my LevelSystem, but I definitely need to put some more thought into it before I jump head first into it.

Once I have these 3 things done, I'll begin fleshing out each enemy, then programming their specific AI. That's probably what will take the most time, because I'll have to implement some sort of shared memory probably, but that won't be too hard to do, due to the flexibility of the 'engine'.

Well that's all for now, I have to research a college and work on a Calculus project, so peace out =D