Alex's Week 3 Report

what were your concrete goals for the week?

My goals were to write little programs on my own to take in a list of objects, and produce a render so that I could learn OpenGL from the bottom up.

what goals were you able to accomplish?

I was able to write a program to render 3d coordinate axes, and have a player able to move around in 3d space with keyboard and mouse input fps-style.

if the week went differently than you had planned, what were the reasons? note that this happens regularly...I would prefer you to be aggressive in what you want to try accomplish rather than limit yourself to goals you know you'll easily achieve. so answering this question is more of a reflection on the development process and the surprises you encounter, it's not at all an evaluation.

I did not work on the source code of the main project much because everything was very coupled and convoluted. I worked mostly on minimizing dependencies for building (did not go very well, had a lot of "works on my machine" issues), and refactoring our existing code to be more modular.

what are your specific goals for the next week?

Because we are currently using an authoritative server model, I need to learn more about the exact architecture. I thought I wouldn't have to worry about it at all, but because I'm also involved in input handling, I'll have to learn how to send things back and forth.

what did you learn this week, if anything (and did you expect to learn it)?

I think the most valuable thing I learned was that it is valuable to actually just include copies of the source code of dependencies in your own source code, since CMake's FetchContent may fail the test of time in 20 years, but just keeping entire copies of the source code makes projects much more tolerant to dependency updates.

what is your individual morale (which might be different from the overall group morale)?