Author Archives: Eric DeBrosse

About Eric DeBrosse

Lead developer of the Orion Engine.

Exporting Usable Mesh Files

Posted on July 3, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why I couldn’t export mesh files with the new 64-bit UNICODE version of the 3ds Max Orion Engine exporter.  All of the vertices were coming out all zeros!  I thought … Continue reading →

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Bounding Volumes, Server Hardware, etc.

Posted on June 15, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

I’ve been working on a glitch in the engine that caused the root level bounding volume not to be created, if the node didn’t have any vertices.  When merging the bounding volumes in a hierarchy, the top-level node should represent … Continue reading →

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Memory Manager and CPUID

Posted on June 2, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

I’ve been going through my notes on the engine this week.  There were many little small issues that I was able to mark off the list!  The code is running pretty nice.  Things are certainly headed in the right direction. Fixed … Continue reading →

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Team Foundation Server 2017

Posted on May 25, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

My Team Foundation Server has been online for a few weeks now.  However, I wasn’t ready to put the source code under revision control just yet.  I’ve been doing a lot of restructuring and refactoring of the code base that I wanted … Continue reading →

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Booting Up The Old Hard Drives

Posted on May 8, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Finally have everything updated and running in 64-bit.  I ran into some rather interesting scenarios where what worked in 32-bit, didn’t fly at all in 64-bit.  Anyway, it’s too hard and boring to explain here (lol).  The good thing is, all of the … Continue reading →

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Win64 and my ENTIRE weekend!

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Well, I got the engine SDK, and all of the tools and applications running again under Visual Studio 2017.  Now, I’m trying to convert everything from the older Win32 (x86) architecture, over to the Win64 (x64) architecture.  Actually, I’m making it … Continue reading →

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Visual Studio 2017 from Visual Studio 2010

Posted on April 23, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

I have several computers ready to be servers for the game.  Now I’m upgrading all of the projects that make up the Orion Engine SDK libraries and applications to Visual Studio 2017.  I knew there would be some minor changes.  Actually, the new … Continue reading →

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Account Management System

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

I finally got all of my PHP code working. In fact, everything on the new web server appears to be working now!  I just finished all of the database code changes in the Account Management System today.  The new database server … Continue reading →

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Database Server

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

The database server (SQL Server 2016 SP1 Express) is on newer hardware, and back up and running again!  All of the databases were successfully restored.  It amazes me how many technologies that have to come back together to make all of … Continue reading →

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Current Status

Posted on March 27, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

The web server is obviously back up now. It’s been upgraded to Fedora 25 Linux with the latest Apache.  The Gatekeeper server is back up as well.  I’m currently working on bringing the Team Foundation Server source code repository back up.  The hardware is … Continue reading →

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