The last 12 months have been very difficult. My Dad passed away suddenly from cancer which meant I had to find a new home for my Mum who relied on him for her day to day care, sell their house and deal with some serious health issues of my own. This was in addition to… Read More »
With the public release of Alternate Reality X 0.75 looming for the end of September 2016 I thought I would talk a little bit about what you can expect to see, what I didn’t manage to add and my general approach to have the completed 1.0 release in your hands before the end of the… Read More »
January 2016 has passed but I hope you had a good Christmas / New Year or holiday. I’m sorry for not posting anything for such a long time. I’ve found it difficult to focus and use my time well to make the significant updates to Alternate Reality X which I’ve wanted to despite putting in… Read More »
As I’d said previously I wanted to review what I’d achieved with Alternate Reality X (ARX) and what I needed to do to take it a step closer to completion. I’ve given the project a lot of thought and wanted to post an update. I found some of my early AR images on the internet… Read More »
Thanks to those of you who were kind enough to send me documents, resources and even your own 3D models for Unity 3D. I’ve not had the chance to go through everything yet but they look really useful and have given me a real flavour of the possibilities of development in Unity. I’ve decided that I will… Read More »
I’ve just got home after being away for over a week so I’ve not done any further work on Alternate Reality X during that time. However I spent a few hours today familiaring myself with the basics of the free version of the Unity game development system and I’m pleased with the results so far. On first… Read More »
Release 0.61 of ARX will be released as soon as I fix a bug when entering guilds which leads to a crash. The main change in this release is that at least on a temporary basis I’ve switched to the CodeBlocks development environment using the MinGW C++ compiler. There were 2 main reasons for this… Read More »
Based on some issues that players of Alternate Reality X reported, I was keen to try out one of the more recent versions of SFML 2. Hopefully this would resolve problems relating to the use of RenderTextures on machines using integrated Intel graphics. Using a very helpful tutorial by SFMLcoder over at http://sfmlcoder.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/building-sfml-2-nmake/ I was able to… Read More »