Wanton Hubris

I took some time off from my remix level to look at the ToeTag source again. The editor was getting a little choppy when the entire level is visible and I wanted to see what I could do to fix that.

The answer, it seems, is glDrawArrays. Holy crap! It takes some massaging of the data each frame to get it into contiguous arrays but, man, once it’s in there you can blast polygons to the video card. I can now work on my level with the whole thing visible. There are lots of places I can leverage glDrawArrays still so it will only get faster in the future.

Once I get as much as I can drawing through arrays, I’ll post a new version of ToeTag.

Very happy!

So I’ve never owned a grill before. I know that calls my manliness into question but it’s true. My wife and I went out today and bought one because we figured it was time.

As we’re loading it into her truck, a guy comes up and offers to help out. I gladly accept and once we’re done he compliments me on the grill.

As we’re pulling out, another guy walks by and upon seeing the grill, gives me a big thumbs up and a smile and jokingly calls out, “When’s the barbeque!?”

We get home and I ask my neighbor to give me a hand lugging it into the backyard. He does and then we have a conversation about the grill, it’s specs, and we left off with my being tasked to report back to him later as to how this grill performs.

I feel like I’ve gained membership into some sort of club that I had no idea existed.

A quick shot of what I’m doing in my E3M4 remix. What lurks in the towers above?

Real life is impeding on my Quaking so I’ll be back in a bit. We’ve got a few weeks of crazy hours coming up. Be back when I can!