Geeks! Post your coding projects!

humndislocation · 26th May 2005, 01:44 AM

Looking at the gonzo thread inspired me to start this topic. I know there are a few coders on here, and it'd be interesting to see what you're all up to.

Binaries
Source code

This is the last project I worked on. It was mainly written on the train to work at my last job. Last August, when there wasn't much for the game designers to do in Dundee, I was shipped off to the Edinburgh office, and had to take the train every day. I bought myself a laptop, and started coding to keep myself from going insane. This is the result.

It's not much to look at, but I think it's quite nice from a technical standpoint. It's a demo of embedded python scripting in a simple 2D game engine, using boost :: python to translate the C++ classes into the python scripting language. I tried to make the app as data driven as possible. It also features a quake like console, which allows variables to be read from config files on disk, and changed at run-time, eliminating the need for a recompile. It's commented throughout with doxygen comments, which allows doxygen to generate documentation for the source code (documentation provided with the source code distribution)

The 2D game engine part didn't really get finished, because VIS went down the tubes, giving me enough free time to work on something better, but the scripting part of it is quite well formed.

Most of the code is going to be reused in the project I'm working on now, which will be a simple 3D terrain engine.

RealR · 26th May 2005, 02:44 AM

My last work, excluding Gonzo was just an Open GL demo that sucked, as i suck... and leave everything to 2/3 days beforehand. Anyway:

For my coursework I had to make a random terrain generator so here it is:

DOWNLOAD

Screenies

Description of how it works

The program created is a three dimensional terrain randomly generated via the mid-point displacement. It was created using the OpenGL API in C using an old program that created a textured cube.

Mid point displacement is a technique that generates a terrain by creating squares and from that making smaller squares, slightly varying the y value (height) and then creating smaller, further varied, squares from them. This creates a fairly realistic looking terrain.

If the final square has been generated {
See if the height is various sizes and set the land type accordingly
Display the square
}
Otherwise {
Find the midpoint of each side and the centre
Calculate a mildly randomised y point
From here you have 4 squares made from one
Call this function again for each of 4 new squares
}
When plenty recursions are called the result can be very effective and produce attractive 3D terrain. Each recursion produces improved results as the distance between variations is less, thus looking more realistic.

There are a few further features integrated into this. Various “heights” have different textures to represent snow, grass, sand and a stoned sea bottom. To represent water for the sea a large square is created and positioned at a “sea level.” This is then given transparency using blending of its textures with the stone below creating a rather attractive water bed.

The camera is free to move around the world in the x, y and z planes, as well as rotating. This gives the user freedom to explore the terrain, and if the terrain is generated outside of the map the user can move to see it.

RealR · 26th May 2005, 02:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by humndislocation

...It's a demo of embedded python scripting in a simple 2D game engine,...

whats python like? i've never used it before

: : Scott : : · 26th May 2005, 08:34 AM

This is my terrain thing, it's not great but I had to rush it because I had to go see the arcade fire. Took a couple of days. EDIT BTW IT USES FAULT GENERATION AND SMOOTHING GUYZ

Download Terrain Source

This is my attempt at creating instruments and synthesising things with CSound, it's fucking awful : D

This is the soundscape that is supposed to represent electron orbit +some other things; Soundscape

This my .sco and .orc;

Score File

Orchestra File

The CSound stuff was just an elective module though.

I'd post my D3D/DSound effort, but it's not fun. It basically just shows that I can use D3D and DSound.

Since the code sucks I'll post some rubbish screens.

PRETTY COLOURS

DIG MY LEET STENCIL BUFFER

MORE ASSORTED SHIT

kj · 26th May 2005, 08:51 AM

My current project is web based. I'm working on a php PDF gallery for scientific posters from various conferences for my employer. Using php's PDF libraries and other 3rd party libraries to create pdf thumbnails etc along with a SQL backend.

Also finishing off a CD full of educational games made in flash / actionscript.

^_mincher_^ · 26th May 2005, 09:08 AM

Im not coding anything at the moment, focusing entirely on modeling as i enjoy it more and am better at it. Anyways heres a sneak peek at the NEW player character for Hider Seeker by TEAM: Gonzo. Far superior to the old one imo.

A Spaceship i did about a month ago for a contest in which i came joint 3rd. Hope to texture and animate it one day soon.MORE IMAGES HERE.

Also a still from a CG generated animation of a hob ignition I did. I'll render the vid at some point.

chrono · 26th May 2005, 02:06 PM

I made a game of pong once using BASIC on the Spectrum.

It didn't work though.

humndislocation · 26th May 2005, 03:12 PM

I have to say, I'm glad I started this thread now, some really cool stuff has been posted.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Develion

whats python like? i've never used it before

It's a very nice language, very powerful, and easy to pick up too. Its library has support for sockets, various network protocols, accessing zip files, etc.

It's truely object oriented with real support for classes, which is why I chose it over Lua. Lua is nice, but if you want to write object oriented code, you've got to kind of hack it in yourself, which is not ideal. Plus boost :: python provides really good integration with C++. Boost :: python is awesome, it lets you access your C++ classes, and call their methods from python. With a small bit of glue code, you can even derive from your C++ classes in python, and call the methods derived in python polymorphically from C++. I know it's nerdy, but that just gives me a full-on robo-chubby.

I even used it to write the build script for the OidEngine project.

It's such a nice language, that if I had to write a program quickly that didn't have to run natively, I'd probably write it in python. (either that or java)

^_mincher_^ · 26th May 2005, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by humndislocation

It's truely object oriented with real support for classes...

Orbject Oriented Languages are the mutts nuts! For some reason my brain can work in this manner really well when programming. I just understand the flow a lot better. It's also cool as the macro-languages(is that even a term?

) that power a lot of todays big games work around an OOP structure which means i have a good idea of what is going on.

Edit: By Macro-Languages i mean things like UnrealScript for the Unreal engine etc.

humndislocation · 26th May 2005, 03:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrono

I made a game of pong once using BASIC on the Spectrum.

It didn't work though.

I tried to write a game in BASIC on the spectrum when I was 8. I got as far as

10 THIS IS A GAME ABOUT BOXING

I wasn't a very good programmer at the time.

To be fair, I was able to make it play music in basic. Where, music is defined as random chords....

^_mincher_^ · 26th May 2005, 03:25 PM

haha...that takes me back....

If you ever speak to grimble_grumble in the future, ask him about his text adventure game he made in QBasic.

humndislocation · 26th May 2005, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ^_mincher_^

Orbject Oriented Languages are the mutts nuts! For some reason my brain can work in this manner really well when programming. I just understand the flow a lot better. It's also cool as the macro-languages(is that even a term?

) that power a lot of todays big games work around an OOP structure which means i have a good idea of what is going on.

Edit: By Macro-Languages i mean things like UnrealScript for the Unreal engine etc.

Ahh right, I know what you mean. Mostly they're referred to as scripting languages, when referring to games.

Yeah I'm a huge fan of object oriented programming myself. I hate having to code in procedural languages. The lack of constructors and destructors especially, gets on my nerves. I really like to use constructs like smart pointers, that use the constructors and destructors to perform safe cleanup. Or for example, something I'm going to use in my next project, a scoped lock for a vertex buffer that unlocks the vertex buffer when the lock object goes out of scope. You just can't do that in a procedural language.

I especially like the idea of combining objected oriented programming in the scripting language, to integrate well with the object oriented code of the game engine

26th May 2005, 01:44 AM	#1 (permalink)
humndislocation Hardcore is serious guys Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dundee Posts: 5,996 Band: Blasphemous Necrorapist	Geeks! Post your coding projects! Looking at the gonzo thread inspired me to start this topic. I know there are a few coders on here, and it'd be interesting to see what you're all up to. Binaries Source code This is the last project I worked on. It was mainly written on the train to work at my last job. Last August, when there wasn't much for the game designers to do in Dundee, I was shipped off to the Edinburgh office, and had to take the train every day. I bought myself a laptop, and started coding to keep myself from going insane. This is the result. It's not much to look at, but I think it's quite nice from a technical standpoint. It's a demo of embedded python scripting in a simple 2D game engine, using boost :: python to translate the C++ classes into the python scripting language. I tried to make the app as data driven as possible. It also features a quake like console, which allows variables to be read from config files on disk, and changed at run-time, eliminating the need for a recompile. It's commented throughout with doxygen comments, which allows doxygen to generate documentation for the source code (documentation provided with the source code distribution) The 2D game engine part didn't really get finished, because VIS went down the tubes, giving me enough free time to work on something better, but the scripting part of it is quite well formed. Most of the code is going to be reused in the project I'm working on now, which will be a simple 3D terrain engine.

26th May 2005, 02:44 AM	#2 (permalink)
RealR Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Dundee Posts: 4,140 Band: They are make believe	My last work, excluding Gonzo was just an Open GL demo that sucked, as i suck... and leave everything to 2/3 days beforehand. Anyway: For my coursework I had to make a random terrain generator so here it is: DOWNLOAD *Screenies* *Description of how it works* The program created is a three dimensional terrain randomly generated via the mid-point displacement. It was created using the OpenGL API in C using an old program that created a textured cube. Mid point displacement is a technique that generates a terrain by creating squares and from that making smaller squares, slightly varying the y value (height) and then creating smaller, further varied, squares from them. This creates a fairly realistic looking terrain. If the final square has been generated { See if the height is various sizes and set the land type accordingly Display the square } Otherwise { Find the midpoint of each side and the centre Calculate a mildly randomised y point From here you have 4 squares made from one Call this function again for each of 4 new squares } When plenty recursions are called the result can be very effective and produce attractive 3D terrain. Each recursion produces improved results as the distance between variations is less, thus looking more realistic. There are a few further features integrated into this. Various “heights” have different textures to represent snow, grass, sand and a stoned sea bottom. To represent water for the sea a large square is created and positioned at a “sea level.” This is then given transparency using blending of its textures with the stone below creating a rather attractive water bed. The camera is free to move around the world in the x, y and z planes, as well as rotating. This gives the user freedom to explore the terrain, and if the terrain is generated outside of the map the user can move to see it. Last edited by RealR : 26th May 2005 at 02:47 AM.

26th May 2005, 08:34 AM	#4 (permalink)
: : Scott : : Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dundee Posts: 7,138	This is my terrain thing, it's not great but I had to rush it because I had to go see the arcade fire. Took a couple of days. EDIT BTW IT USES FAULT GENERATION AND SMOOTHING GUYZ Download Terrain Source This is my attempt at creating instruments and synthesising things with CSound, it's fucking awful : D This is the soundscape that is supposed to represent electron orbit +some other things; Soundscape This my .sco and .orc; Score File Orchestra File The CSound stuff was just an elective module though. I'd post my D3D/DSound effort, but it's not fun. It basically just shows that I can use D3D and DSound. Since the code sucks I'll post some rubbish screens. PRETTY COLOURS DIG MY LEET STENCIL BUFFER MORE ASSORTED SHIT Last edited by : : Scott : : : 26th May 2005 at 08:52 AM.

26th May 2005, 08:51 AM	#5 (permalink)
kj gimp Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Scotland Posts: 14,138 Band: A band of merry men	My current project is web based. I'm working on a php PDF gallery for scientific posters from various conferences for my employer. Using php's PDF libraries and other 3rd party libraries to create pdf thumbnails etc along with a SQL backend. Also finishing off a CD full of educational games made in flash / actionscript. __________________ This community cannot survive without your continued support. galleries \|\| links directory \|\| profiles \|\| wiki

26th May 2005, 09:08 AM	#6 (permalink)
^_mincher_^ Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Corstorphine/Dundee Posts: 1,574	Im not coding anything at the moment, focusing entirely on modeling as i enjoy it more and am better at it. Anyways heres a sneak peek at the NEW player character for Hider Seeker by TEAM: Gonzo. Far superior to the old one imo. A Spaceship i did about a month ago for a contest in which i came joint 3rd. Hope to texture and animate it one day soon.MORE IMAGES HERE. Also a still from a CG generated animation of a hob ignition I did. I'll render the vid at some point. Last edited by ^_mincher_^ : 26th May 2005 at 12:10 PM.

26th May 2005, 02:06 PM	#7 (permalink)
chrono Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Dundee Posts: 1,149	I made a game of pong once using BASIC on the Spectrum. It didn't work though.

26th May 2005, 03:25 PM	#11 (permalink)
^_mincher_^ Senior Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Corstorphine/Dundee Posts: 1,574	haha...that takes me back.... If you ever speak to grimble_grumble in the future, ask him about his text adventure game he made in QBasic.