UTH or W3G ? :)

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#1

After XIN (which will still be improved), I can’t decide wether I’ll first write UTH (Xith Under The Hood), which covers lower-level subjects than XIN (e.g. highest-level things in UTH will be how a scenegraph is really working : @Marvin : our knowledge will be complementary here), or W3G (Writing 3D Games with Xith), which is a selection of “courses” alterned with answereed exercises (e.g. : display the earth on a stars background, create a 2D grid level editor, implement a pacman, implement basic FPS functionalities, implement a networked GTA-like, and so on).
For now I’m more for W3G, cause it sounds funnier and will provide both appealing demos and interesting reads for wannabes.

What do you think ?

Will you help me in the writing of W3G (e.g. write an exercice) ?

#2

I would vote for W3G, since the render code is not completely optimized and will certainly being changed in a few points.

And I’ll certainly contribute exercises.

Marvin

#3

Here’s a small example I’ve made, not really useful to create a game but shows some optimizations that can be made… I think the code is written in a pretty efficient way (the only thing i didn’t optimized was the 3 for loops).

Check out org.xith3d.w3g.ColorCube class for sourcecode.

#4

Looks cool. I’m currently doing the DisplayList optimizations for shared geometries.

Why did you put it into the org.xith3d.w3g package? Wouldn’t org.xith3d.test.render be a better place for it?

Marvin

#5

Well, of course it’s a just a teeny-weeny example I made for a friend who’s learning Xith3D (one more user - yeah !)

Because all “answered” W3G exercises are going to be put in org.xith3d.w3g
These are not tests…