{"id":2251,"date":"2018-02-18T10:49:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T14:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2018-02-18T10:49:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T14:49:06","slug":"midi-animator-version-2-wishlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=2251","title":{"rendered":"MIDI animator version 2 wishlist…"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I blogged a couple months ago, one of my goals for 2018 is to program a very simple 3D engine. I’ve been wanting to program a simple adventure game for a few years now, but the 3D and 2D engines I’ve played around with just don’t have quite the features I want, so I’m attempting to create my own little game engine with the Lightweight Java Game Library<\/a>\u00a0(lwjgl).<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’ve got so far: I can render a textured box and some resolution independent vector graphics including true-type fonts, which can intersect with the box!<\/p>\n

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OK, so nothing special yet.<\/p>\n

Anyway, another thing I’d like to create with lwjgl is a new version of my MIDI animator, using vector graphics (instead of custom shaders) to represent the MIDI notes. (On a side note, I’m using the OpenGL “NV path rendering” extension for vector graphics support, which was created by Nvidia. Does that mean it’ll only work on their GPUs? I don’t know.) This should easily allow many more possible note shapes to be created.<\/p>\n

Here’s my current wishlist for “MIDI animator 2.0” (I should also come up with a more interesting name):<\/p>\n