My takes on Assignment 6

First of all a big thanks to our teacher for providing such  detailed instructions with examples for Lua. That helped me a lot.

• Game Screenshot

(Figure 1.0 Game screenshot)

• The props of having human readable file
  • Human readable files are easy to read and modify for the people outside the engineers group. For example a designer who does not know anything about programming layer can easily modify the files(game assets) without even bothering engineers from sipping their coffee!
  • Easy to share and replace without modifying the actual code. No need to modify the code because it is an independent entity.

• My Human readable Geometry file

(Figure 1.1 Geometry file screenshot (Lua file))

How I shaped my decisions while creating it.

So I decided to hit the middle ground by neither keeping it very ambiguous nor specifying too much descriptive.

1. First I declare simple indices array with comments that is easy to understand and also the order matters here which I write in the comments.
2. It took me a while to come up with the vertices format, order does not matters and I tried to keep them simple in terms of details and decided to not have ID for each vertex and keep them in a separate sub tables.
3. I think the current version is kinda fair for any non-programmer guy to understand how to specify or change the geometry data.

• Screenshot of debugging geometry program

(Figure 1.2 showing debugging of geometry builder)

• Took me around 13 hours to complete the assignmnet because I spent 30% of that time in debugging and fixing my bugs.

• My experience
  • I spent a lot of time to go through the lua example and that helped me a lot while creating my lua script.  As a result I didn't ran into a single issue with lua script it worked right away the first time. Once again thanks to our teacher for providing such good instructions with examples.
  • I was very confused about the handles even though I got them working but the class cleared out my confusions.
  • One of the points of the class was separating the game logic from creating assets and making them a separate entity. Also to learn making human readable and machine interpret-able assets.