Learning OpenGL

So today and yesterday to a lesser extent, I've been reading the "Red Book" on OpenGL. It's seems long overdue since I'm working on an OpenGL based game engine. I just didn't realize until now how necessary it would be. This way I'll be able to start making commits on the OpenGL side of things. To think that before this summer I thought OpenGL WAS a game engine...derp.

I hope to get some code done today as well, although I haven't made much headway on implementing scenes as a dictionary. So it will be unrelated to that. It's a little bit over my head to be honest, so it's definitely taking some time to figure out what's what with Mapping Protocol and such, and how it actually would be used in the context necessary to actually get this all to work.

Scenes and Dictionary

So today I'm working on changing a scene to work as sequences of bodies. As right now there is no way to know which bodies belong to which scene based upon only have the scene as information. Creating an external storage only makes the code using it really messy. I tried this originally before I realized how silly it was to do it that way, when it could be changed in the API to work better. So I asked Arc about it.

Originally Arc said it was intended to implement this as a sequence of bodies, but after we talked he came to conclusion that it would be better implemented as a dictionary of bodies. This way bodies can be created outside of a scene, be removed from a scene and essentially exist outside of a scene. (In a void scene which contains all bodies not contained in a scene.) Also with the dictionary it helps reference the various different bodies of different names.

So what I'll be doing is looking into Python3's Mapping Protocol, and figure out how to make this all work.

Atomic Cleanup

Yesterday (and the day before that as well) I fixed some bugs with HBox and VBox. Today I'm helping Arc with the atomic cleanup of position/color in various files to fit the newly updated Atoms.