My work on the Duality Editor continues. Not very exciting stuff, though. Here’s a screenshot anyway. Object Selection is now pretty much finished, along with some related editor framework drafts.

I recently paid someone 15 bucks to steal half of my free time. Doesn’t sound good? Well, then you probably shouldn’t buy Minecraft.

To provide visual object interaction in the editor environment, there needs to be some way to determine which object is located at a specific pixel coordinate in the actual CamView. The two most obvious approaches are Picking and (physics / collision driven) Raycasting. As the latter one requires a working collision detection system which is tightly connected to a lot of design descisions I haven’t made yet, I’ve implemented Picking for now.

Working with the Duality Editor is always project-related. Instead of opening a lot of independent files and editing them isolated, a game project is opened as whole; basically like opening a project file in Visual Studio, except that there’s no project file for Duality. Instead, you’ll open a projects folder which then will be scanned for relevant files.

I’m back. I’ve finished my exams and some of my free time returned. Not all of it though, because of my work at Deck13 where I show up a little more often than my contract requires me to. After all, it is a fulfilling kind of work and it’s always nice to be slightly ahead of schedule than slightly behind.