Severance is complete. Easier than I expected. Only a few errors, all easy fixes. As promised, the collision detection was next in line, and it is all but done. In other words, it's finished until it blows up. Everything blows up at least a few times before it's complete.
Most of my time was spent on the collision detection. But there are a few other things. I downloaded the PrimitiveBatch sample from the XNA Creator's Club website. I hate to use other people's code, but I'm not ready to learn shaders just yet, and I desperately needed to draw some lines for debugging purposes. I could've gone back and used the ol' sprite rotate and scale for lines as I did in the last iteration, but that's slower. However, I may just do it anyway later on unless I learn shaders and figure out a way to anti-alias the lines. Sprite lines look great, but performance is key. We'll just have to wait and see what happens.
Anyway, I've been thinking about the geometric shapes that will been strewn around the map. I looked up geometric collision detection to see if there's a better method than the one in my head and found this. It was nothing new. That is, nothing except the line intersection code. Incidentally, my code is shorter, and thus probably faster. I replied with my code here.
Now that I know how I'll manage the geometry, I don't know how I'll manage the rendering. I would like to draw the lines and fill the shape in with a tileable texture, but as I don't know how, I may have to resort to pre-rendered sprites, which would put a damper on variety and require more sprites to be loaded into memory (not to mention the extra effort producing them). But if that's what's required, then that's what I'll do.
If you know of a better method, please please please tell me. In the meantime, I'll probably use the PrimitiveBatch to draw them.
Any suggestions? Questions?
clevceo
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