{"id":113,"date":"2007-05-10T13:43:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T13:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/user\/mrcranky\/113"},"modified":"2007-05-10T13:43:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T13:43:28","slug":"milestones-and-maths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/milestones-and-maths\/","title":{"rendered":"Milestones and maths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much for posting recently as we&#8217;ve had our heads down getting things done. We passed milestone 1 of our build at the start of the month (well actually a few days before &#8211; how good are we!), and have been cracking on getting more visible functionality in, less on the under-the-hood work. It was quite a nice moment when we saw the models and environments from our old game going in (the most complicated art I had to hand), after a few false starts.<\/p>\n<p>Most annoying thing so far has been the two days spent on thrashing out a problem in the graphics projection code, only to find out it wasn&#8217;t a high level conceptual problem at all, but rather an assumption that our underlying maths library was fine. Turns out we were transforming 3D vectors by a 4D matrix, but ignoring the 4th column. Of course, the 4th column is rarely used for most 3D work, except in projection matrices. D&#8217;oh! All fixed, and another story to be marked as done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much for posting recently as we&#8217;ve had our heads down getting things done. We passed milestone 1 of our build at the start of the month (well actually a few days before &#8211; how good are we!), and have been cracking on getting more visible functionality in, less on the under-the-hood work. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg1JR-1P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcompanystudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}