Objective

This week, I introduced a new mesh file format and a MeshBuilder class to the game engine. These added features simplify the existing the game code and allow for the creation of far more complicated meshes.

Gameplay

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Gameplay Footage

Footage of a new pyramid mesh.

New Mesh File Format

Having human-readable asset files allows for easy edits and adjustments from humans. This is especially helpful for version control software and files that are edited by many different people. I was also inspired by the .obj file format. In the future, I plan to have vertex normals and texture coordinates. The current table structure will allow me to easily add new tables for normals and uvs. I imagine that I would update the faces table to include relevant index references for those new tables too. The table follows an x, y, z structure, which should be apparent to most programmers.

return
{
	vertices = {
		{ -0.5, -0.5, 0.0 },
		{  0.5,  0.5, 0.0 },
		{  0.5, -0.5, 0.0 },
		{ -0.5,  0.5, 0.0 },
	},

	faces = {
		{ 0, 1, 2 },
		{ 0, 3, 1 },
	}
}

Debugging the MeshBuilder

Show a screenshot of you debugging your MeshBuilder program: