How I'm getting along

Hi, just a short sign-of-life kind of blog post.

C++ is pretty cool, everything I do feels more "proper".

Apart from that, I've got the pleasant problem that my day job became pretty damn interesting and demanding. Not as interesting as Citybound though - I still manage to work on it ~2hrs per day on average.

What I did so far:

• wrote the basic part of compass, the core geometry module and in the process greatly simplified the code compared to the old one
• wrote whiteboard, a helper library to quickly display 2D drawings, mostly used as visual debugging for the geometry code
• sketched out how memory-mapped game state/save games would look in C++ (surprisingly natural!)
• wrote lzy, my own helper library for iterators in C++ - since a lot of high-level code in the JavaScript version of Citybound made use of them and I want to keep the style
• found inspiration for a simplification of the road network representation, should affect a lot of areas

What I'm currently working on:

• implementing monet, a custom-tailored minimal deferred & physically based rendering engine that should allow for some pretty advanced and beautiful lighting shenanigans later on

The goal I'm working towards:

"Benchmark 1"

• reimplement basic planning mode for roads
• reimplement traffic simulation
• stress test traffic simulation with huge amount of randomly spawned cars, see how far I can push it
• also stress test renderer with amount of cars

That's all, I hope that gives you an idea! Speak to you soon!