01-20-2015, 01:38 AM
*** MISSED A POST YESTERDAY ****
So yesterday I rewrote a little bit of OIS's mouse handling code, and got it working a little better on Linux.
However there are still issues with the window management code and the keyboard. Seems like it's an uphill battle. So this morning I started a preliminary attempt at porting the game to SDL2 on Linux only. (There are issues with SDL2 and windows which is why I did not want to do this in the first place. It means maintaining two majorly different versions of the same code.)
If it works, I should hopefully have issues caused by desktop environments and keyboard focus solved, however the Linux build will become more of a pain to update. Which means if we ever go back to a minor build release system (as we did between 1.14-1.17) the Linux client will not be kept up to date. But since we've switch back to major updates only system that shouldn't be a problem.
I'll keep you guys updated with the progress.
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Todays:
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So I spent most of today porting the Linux build to the SDL2 window manager. I got it rendering inside of an sdl2 window now. I have quite a bit more to do to this for it to be fully functional. But I can say with 90% certainty that 1.18 will be using SDL2 in Linux.
This extra work at fixing Linux issues means I have made no progress on the OSX port. Sorry.
Tonight I started working on the exponential sliders. Which means unit and design cost rise at a faster rate the closer you get to full and at a slower rate the closer you get to empty. This means expensive cars will become a lot more expensive and cheaper cars will not as much of a cost benefit to medium quality cars. I have finished the chassis. I still have engine, gearbox, and vehicles to do. I should have them done in the morning. I'll use this to jump into costs, add a few more sub-components and tweak a few that we have.
So yesterday I rewrote a little bit of OIS's mouse handling code, and got it working a little better on Linux.
However there are still issues with the window management code and the keyboard. Seems like it's an uphill battle. So this morning I started a preliminary attempt at porting the game to SDL2 on Linux only. (There are issues with SDL2 and windows which is why I did not want to do this in the first place. It means maintaining two majorly different versions of the same code.)
If it works, I should hopefully have issues caused by desktop environments and keyboard focus solved, however the Linux build will become more of a pain to update. Which means if we ever go back to a minor build release system (as we did between 1.14-1.17) the Linux client will not be kept up to date. But since we've switch back to major updates only system that shouldn't be a problem.
I'll keep you guys updated with the progress.
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Todays:
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So I spent most of today porting the Linux build to the SDL2 window manager. I got it rendering inside of an sdl2 window now. I have quite a bit more to do to this for it to be fully functional. But I can say with 90% certainty that 1.18 will be using SDL2 in Linux.
This extra work at fixing Linux issues means I have made no progress on the OSX port. Sorry.
Tonight I started working on the exponential sliders. Which means unit and design cost rise at a faster rate the closer you get to full and at a slower rate the closer you get to empty. This means expensive cars will become a lot more expensive and cheaper cars will not as much of a cost benefit to medium quality cars. I have finished the chassis. I still have engine, gearbox, and vehicles to do. I should have them done in the morning. I'll use this to jump into costs, add a few more sub-components and tweak a few that we have.
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good human beings save the world, so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead it means I made it." ― Charles Bukowski