Category Archives: Engine Development

Happy New Year 2018!

Posted on January 1, 2018 by Eric DeBrosse

Well, it’s a new year already!  I look forward to continue working on the Orion Engine SDK and the Been There Game software.  I feel this is going to be a great, productive year! I logged into the game servers … Continue reading →

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Christmas Break

Posted on December 16, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Well, I finally have a fairly complete plan for the new network architecture.  I’m hoping to fully utilize my Christmas break, by working on the code!  I pray nothing at my day job comes up, that could steal my time … Continue reading →

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Network Code Refactoring

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Something that has bugged me for a while is the current implementation of the network driver.  It was never meant to be production code, rather just a foundation to test and work from. The new implementation will use Windows Overlapped … Continue reading →

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Asset Manager Application

Posted on October 19, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

Finally just about finished with the Asset Manager.  It’s been partially complete for a while now.  Just enough to allow clients to self update from the server when they login. Now I have an application that can be used for … Continue reading →

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Orion Engine Plugin System

Posted on August 13, 2017 by Eric DeBrosse

I’ve been pretty busy at work lately, which has hindered my development on the engine some.  However, I’m still pushing forward! The plug-in system (used by the Orion Engine SDK, Orion Script, Orion Genesis, Been There Game, etc.) has been … Continue reading →

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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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