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I have completed some modifications to the database connector which allow me to easily access even large sql query results from script. It is probably not as fast as it could conceivably be, but it is more than fast enough. I have also implemented the context-sensitive menu, although I will need to test this properly […]

I have now moved on to the actual Game World Creation. I am using a similiar system to “Astral Realms”, my previous virtual world game, except I am writing it from the ground up for this project. I am storing all of my world object in a database, not a mission file, this will allow […]

I have made significant progress in creating the basic gameplay variables which will be used by the game. This has really made me realise the enormity of the task that I have set for myself. Basically, I have been working to produce a listing of all of the basic elements of the game. I now […]

I spent some time today conducting some tests on large numbers of objects in torque. For my project, I intend to allow the user to combine many simple meshes together to make more complex meshes. So, a complex building might be modelled from individual wall segments, floor panels, doors, windows, etc, instead of being one […]

I have decided on my database and general server architecture for this project. Torque has always had excellent network code, (and in fact, for a time the Torque Network Library was being sold as a standalone product) and generally the way networking works in a Torque game is that clients connect to a T3D gameserver […]

It turns out writing a database connector wasn’t too difficult after all. I used and ODBC connector, which I downloaded from HERE. I also came across THIS excellent tutorial, with some fully working sample code at the end, which required only minor modifications to work in T3D. According to this tutorial, only the 32-bit ODBC […]

I am having some issues connecting the latest version of T3D (3.6) to my mySQL database. I normally use THIS resource, but it seems to lead to very strange .dll loading problems in the latest version of T3D. It seems to work fine with my current machine and compiler on an older version of the engine, […]

I have done quite a lot of work lately on designing the Gameplay variables that I am going to model in this system. This is the most important part of this particular project, since the entire game will be limited by the scope of these variables. I need to make sure that I am modelling […]

I have finished configuring the CentOS/KVM server, and I believe I have successfully exposed it to the internet. I have checked that the VNC ports are forwarded, and THIS website reports that the port is successfully forwarded and a VNC server is present. I now need to test the server. My external IP is: 86.47.6.3  […]

I am posting this from a Windows 7 Ultimate Guest Virtual machine running inside Centos 7, from my laptop which is running Windows 7 home. That is just as complicated as it sounds! It took quite a lot of effort to get this working, I had to enable bridge networking, set up port forwarding and […]