So, after a hiatus, I am back again. Last semester was a complete disaster in almost every way possible : my studies, hobbies, social life, etc. Finally during the holidays I got some learning started.
I have always wanted to make 3d games, but I don't just want to make them, I want to program them. I finally decided to take the plunge from 2d to 3d in the winter. I got started with a game engine called Soya3d. I also got started with some Modelling and Animation using Blender. Nothing fancy, just some basic armature stuff for animation. I made some models, some of them will be uploaded on my website soon enough. For GUI, I plan to use Tkinter (for now), so I read some Tkinter tutorials too.
However, Soya3d is a bit of a buggy game engine. It was everything that I needed, its just that it wasn't designed too properly. So I had to let it go. There is another game engine called PySoy, which has been started with one of the developers of Soya3d who wasn't comfortable with soya's design. It looks pretty good for now, the only problem is that it's current version is not supported. I'm looking forward to the next version. It was a pain to install. Imagine spending 3 hours to install a software (with 10 dependencies), and then finding out that that version isn't supported!
For now, I'm taking a break from game programming till I end up finding a better game engine or till PySoy Beta 3 is released. I have plenty of stuff to keep me occupied. We got an assignment in CS355 to build a website, and this gave me an oppurtunity to improve my website. I included a photo gallery and a random pic on each page, just to make it a bit more interesting. The pics are all random pictures of my room. You can visit the photo gallery here.
And remember : Lameness Always Prevails!
