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Build Log (From most recent to oldest):
In the course of teaching classes using the Pop framework, Rucker
revises the build from time to time, adding new features requested
by student teams and then fixing the bugs that the new features
introduce. You can always download the latest of these enhanced
builds. Be warned that, unless described as stable, these
builds have beta status, meaning that they haven't yet been thoroughly
tested.
As of Spring, 2004, Rucker has retired from teaching, so there
new versions of the Pop build are likely to be rare in the future.
Version 26_3 seems quite stable at this point.
NOTE: The built-in Windows XP unzip utility has a bug/feature
which may prevent it from unzipping my zip files, which are made
using WinZip. If you are running Windows XP, after you download
the *.zip file, the XP unzipper may tell you that there are no
files in the *.zip file. It's mistaken! In this case, may need
to get hold of WinZip. [This
XP behavior can occur (a) when the temporary internet files folder
is full or (b) when an anti virus product is involved --- if the
scan of the archive is not yet completed when the browser passes
the file to WinZip, the result is a blank WinZip window. You may
need to reconfigure or temporarily disable your anti virus software
to avoid the behavior.]
Pop 36_3, April 27, 2004. Stable.
Fixed a problem with building the DirectSound version on machines
whoese environment path variable doesn't include the DirectX SDK
directories needed for DirectSound. Edited the DirectSound Readme.txt
file. Please read the "DirectSound Readme.txt" file
in my build directory if you plan to make a DirectSound build.
And remember to choose Rebuild All when switching between normal
builds and DirectSound builds.
Pop 36_2, April 15, 2004. Fixed a bug where when you split the
windows in Racer and Monster Hallway, the 2D view didn't look
good. Added a DirectSound Readme.txt file.
Pop 36_1, April 6, 2004. Fixed a bug where the binormal flips
sometimes. Leo Lee added support for DirectSound and DirectMusic,
with new project files for Visual Studio 6.0 and .NET. In order
to make DirectSound builds, you need to get the DirectX download
with SDK (free from Microsoft).
On some machines you'll need to change two occurances of "DWORD_PTR"
to "DWORD*" in the DirectX dsound.h file. Haven't extensively
tested the new build, but should be fine.
Pop 35_2, March 4, 2004. Fixed a last bug in the Ctrl+F for fullscreen.
Removed most of the MDI features. Finally rewrote the pop.hlp
and pop.chm help files.
Pop 35_1, March 3, 2004. Most of the outstanding bugs have been
fixed, and color works for Quake sprites. Still haven't fixed
2ViewSlowdown bug. Ctrl+F for fullscreen is working great.
Pop 34_4, March 3, 2004. Alvin Cho found a great trick on the
web for showing the game in full screen (no caption bar, toolbar,
menubar, status bar). You toggle on and off with Ctrl+F. It works
by actually making the window bigger than the screen and then
sliding it so that only the client area shows! I also put a randomWallPaperID
method into cGame to clean up the ugly wallpaper stuff I had in
cGameRacer. I have been trying to clean and simplify popview.cpp,
I hope I haven't broken anything. I have found one heretofore
unnoticed bug (call it 2ViewSlowdown) that I don't yet know how
to fix: when you start up press Alt+W, V, Alt+V, 3, Ctrl+F4, and
the spacewar window will be running half as fast. You can speed
it back up with Alt+V, 3, Alt+V, 2. I still need to rewrite the
help file, also I think I still haven't put GL_MODULATE in for
the texture mode when drawing cSpriteQuake textures. This had
a lot of new bugs in it.
Pop 34_3, Feb 22, 2004. Stable.
I fixed the cCritterWall::collide and the cRealBox::reflect and
cRealBox surface-point-finding method so that now the wall/critter
collisions are working better. I also commented out the LIMITCOLLLISIONSPERUPDATE
switch in collider.h, so we again can have multiple collisions.
The lack of multiple collisions was breaking the airhockey game,
as if a player were touching a goal, the goal wouldn't collide
with the puck. I removed the multiple game document window option,
also the File save and load option.
Pop 34_2, Feb 20, 2004. My CS
240 students went over the program and found a variety of
bugs, and now I have fixed a lot of them. I improved the graphicsopengl.cpp
code and it runs a little faster. I also found out how to use
OpenGL 1.2 and higher calls by including the SGI glext.h file
and now delay the specular lighting till after the quake sprites
are rendered, so they look a lot livelier. cRealBox no longer
has a draw method, instead we always use cSpriteTextureBox to
draw boxes. Also I fixed the .NET project file pop.sln, so it
should build with no problem. There is still a little scuzz in
the way a player bounces (or fails to bounce) off the corner of
a wall.
Pop 33_4, Feb 10, 2004. This is the same as Pop 33_3 with one
small change so that the speed info is a read-only edit field
in the File|Motion Smoothness menu. The reason is to help Hamed
create a VB script to write a file with Pop run speed. No need
to download if you are presently using 33_3. I will collect bug
reports on 33_3 this week and integrate the fixes into version
33_5.
Pop 33_3, Feb 4, 2004. Did more work on the memory handling of
the graphics objects, wanting to make sure we won't get crashes
again. Rearranged the menu a little, split the Game popup into
a Game and a Critter popup, as the game popup was too big to fit
on the screen. Still need to fix the help file.
Pop 33_2, Feb 3, 2004. Lots of fixes. We had a crash bug in the
class demo, and I think I took out the cause --- though haven't
reproduced the crash at home. Fixed some color flickering in 3D
by commenting out the gimmick of drawing the injured player in
wireframe, though seems like this should be possible. Finished
fixing a problem of having the camera move through walls when
you ride the player. I was seeing some bad z-fighting in Dambuilder
at school, but don't see it at home. Still need to fix the help
file.
Pop 33_1, Feb 2, 2004. Lots of fixes. Each game has been tweaked
and tuned. Skybox is fully implemented. I added a fix to speed
up textures and bitmaps by about 50%; the idea, which I got from
Marvin Gouw, is to arrange the list of critters in such an order
that I group all critters with the same sprite texture together,
this way I render all sprites with the same texture one after
the other, which avoids what seems to be a hefty startup cost
for activating any particular texture. Next is to update the Pop
Help file, and then I'm going to have my Spring, 2004, SJSU CS
240 students find bugs for us to fix.
Pop 32_3, Nov 19, 2003. Tiling now works on cSpriteTextureBox,
you can feed in a final xtilecount argument to determine how many
tiles across you want the rectangle. See spritetexturebox.h for
the interface, also look at the usage in the special wall constructor
in gameracer.cpp.
I #ifdef-ed out the kludge fix involving _znear from 32_2.
skybox still needs to be implemented for other games.
Pop 32_2, Nov 18, 2003. Has the new cSpriteTextureBox for use
as a skybox so we can surround the scene with bitmaps on every
side. See spritetexturebox.h for the interface. To use it, you
overload the cGame::fixSkyBox() method and remove calls to setBackgroundBitmap(..).
Check gameracer.cpp and gamespacewar.cpp for examples. I haven't
yet made the skybox work with the other games.
I also put in a kludge fix for the following problem. If you are
riding the player in a 3D world and the player is backed up against
a wall, then sometimes your critterviewer will be inside the wall
and you won't see anything. My kludge fix is the make the critterviewer
have a near clip plane _znear be sizable enough so that anything
closer than the rear of the player gets clipped. This doesn't
look very nice. A better approach would be to only render the
front faces of the walls so they'd be transparent from the inside.
And only render the inward facing faces of teh skybox walls. A
more complicated approach would be to collide the critterviewer
with the walls.
Pop 32_1, Nov 3, 2003. Fixes a bug in cCritter::lookAt. Adds
a curvature() method to cCritter to tell how rapidly you're turning,
this is useful for making a cForceCentrifugal for a racing game.
Added support for OpenGL fonts, both the 3D polygonal kind and
the bitmapped kind (to exercise this feature, comment in #define
TESTGLTEXT in the game.cpp file). Turned on some old MFC font
code. Made a new Racer game which is slightly different from DamBuilder,
but which starts in 3D view, and adjusts the cRacerWall constructor
so the walls have their bases in the xy planes. Also tweaked the
cSpriteQuake constructors to make these guys have their bases
in the xy plane. Am adding a new cSpriteTextureBox for use as
a skybox so we can surround the scene with bitmaps on every side,
but this isn't done yet.
Pop 31_3, Sept 23, 2003. Same as 30_2, with a correct, tested
fix to the .NET project file. Also changed the "FRESHLIFETIME"
parameters in the graphicsMFC and graphicsOpenGL CPP files to
be much longer to make less likelihood of lurches when loading
a bitmap or Quake sprite.
Pop 31_2, Aug 26, 2003. Same as 30_3, with an incorrect fix to
the .NET project file. Note that the Dambuilder game now starts
with gravity off and in 3D view, unlike as its described in the
book. Windows XP is known to have problems unzipping this file.
op 30_3, May 13, 2003. Includes all the fixes from the 29 series.
3D wall collisions should be OK at last. Merged Kenji Tan's Stereo
Viewer code into the framework. If you have StereoEyes
or CrystalEyes shutter glasses from StereoGraphics, Inc., you
can now view our 3D games in stereo! Stereo dialog was cleaned
up from version 30_1, and better behavior enforced for the various
games. Fixed the PickNPop game, which got broken in the 29 series.
This will be the last new build for awhile.
Pop 29_4, May 5, 2003. Fixed the bugs in the 3D wall collision
code. Cleaned up the sSpriteQuake radius and location code. You
can view the collision spheres for cSpriteQuake critters with
View|Wireframe Polygons now. Cleaned up Dambuilder for 3D. Added
a cSprite3DSphere. Pop 29_1, April 30, 2003. Gave the cCritterWall
proper 3D behavior in terms of collisions. Made a new cListenerScooterYHopper
that moves on the plane like a scooter, but hops with PgUp/PgDn.
Start world has a "net" and a "ramp". This
release has a bug; if the player goes fast enough in the MonsterHallway
game, the player goes through the wall.
Pop 28_8, April 24, 2003. Beta. Fixes the PCX load. Any
PCX file ought to work now. [Some of the student teams were having
problems loading certain MD2 model files that have *.PCX skins.
The problem skins were of size 320 x 200. There was a cast bug
in the shareware PCX loading code I was using: the loader was
reading the width into a byte instead of into an int, so it read
320 as 64.] I am leaving this build up so that you can easily
compare it to Mensch's 28_8x DirectPlay build.
Pop 28_1 - 28_7, April 21, 2003. Added support for cSpriteQuake
type based on Quake MD2 models. Version 28_4 fixed two bugs in
28_3 that made version 28_3 have slow cSpriteQuakes with zero
radius. Version 28_5 fixes it so you can use both PCX skins and
BMP skins, also makes the hopper control better in 3D (UP goes
forward, PAGEUP hops). Version 28_6 fixes a bug that made the
skins icompatible with cSpriteIcon, also added toolbar button
to select random cSpriteQuakes into Spacewar or Game Stub 2D games
for testing. Version 28_7 uses shared static memory for the models
and textures with a CMap. Now multiple copies of the models load
much faster. Cleaned up the memory management.
Pop 27_1, August 24, 2002. Stable.
Fixed a little bug involving removing references to dead
critters. Getting the Pop framework package ready for the book's
publication. This is the build described in the book.
Pop 26_2, May 16, 2002. Killed the "upside down in 3D Ballworld"
bug hopefully for once and for all. Rewrote the lighting model
to make the colors look better. Now computing normals better for
irregular polygons, for better lighting on edges.
Pop 26_1, May 14, 2002. Fixed a few bugs, implemented HTML Help
via *.chm files, made all bitmaps have edges that are powers of
two, to make them work better with OpenGL.
Pop 25_5, May 1, 2002. Made compatible with Visual Studio.NET,
added a BOOL cCritterWall::blocks(cVector start, cVector end)
method..
Pop 25_4, April 9, 2002. Fixed more bugs found by students.
Pop 25_3, 25_2, March 14, 2002. Fixed an OpenGL SpriteIcon bug
that was preventing us from using a long thin bitmap in a 3D view
of the Ballworld Game. Had to fix texture.cpp.
Pop 25_1, March 14, 2002. Fixed about twenty bugs found by students
in my CS 160. Updated the Help file.
Pop 24_2, Jan 28, 2002. Added a side-scroller game called Ballworld.
Fixed a bug involving walls. Updated the Help file.
Pop 24_1, Jan 23, 2002. Fresh build for Spring, 2002, semester.
Made Worms and GameStub2D more like games. Updated the Help file.
Pop 23_4, Jan 3, 2002. Cleaning up the code while revising the
book, fixed a few bugs. The coins in Defender3D are health packs
now.
Pop 23_3, Dec 7, 2001. Redid the cGame code used to initialize
the views, mostly to make it clearer. As a result Defender3D now
looks good when you turn off the View|Ride Player option. Cleaned
up the cGraphicsOpenGL code and added a cLightingModel class.
Fixed a possible bug in the Worms game.
Pop23 _2, Dec 1, 2001. Switched from a CArray to a CList for
the collision hander cCollider object. Seems to make it run smoother
on more machines, also seems to have removed a lock-up-and-hang
bug that I was seeing, possibly caused by undue memory fragmentation
from the order(N-cubed) array removals. Runs good now. Only files
changed from 23_1 are, I believe, biota.* and collider.*. The
cGame collide was renamed collideStep as well, so that's a simple
change in game.h and gamepicknpop.h as well.
Pop 23_1, Nov 28, 2001. Changed the collision handling to work
faster, particularly in worlds with many walls. Main changes are
in new collider.* files, in critter.*, biota.*, and game.*. Also
have been renaming some variables to match the book, so nearly
every file has been changed at little. Changed the setAttitudeLock(int)
method to something like setAttitudeToMotionLock(BOOL). If you
need this build for improved speed, your best bet is to try and
merge your changed files into the new framework. Also fixed the
2D clipping so that you don't see multiple copies of a wrapped
asteroid, for instance.
Pop 22_8, Nov 12, 2001. Fixed the listeners and forces to work
better. Mouse now works in zoomed-in view. Startup is now a Mario-style
world (a weak basketball game). If you switch the Basketball listener
from Mouse to Car or Spaceship, you'll see that gravity and friction
work on the player with these listeners, which is good. We don't
apply physical forces to critters with Arrow, Fly (Scooter), or
Cursor listeners. Fly(Scooter) and Car now allow you to use Down
arrow to move in reverse. Also changed the cForceEvade and cForceAccelerateTowards
to use slightly better algorithms, so had to retweak Spacewar
game. You might consider integrating whatever you've done so far
on your project into the new build of the framework.
Pop 22_7, Oct 14, 2001. Wasn't posted here. Did some fixup on
Defender3D, to freeze and wireframe the critters you shoot.
Pop 22_6, Oct 12, 2001. Fixed a bug where if you had two views
open and closed one the program exited (as result of a bad SwapBuffers
call). Added lights to all OpenGl graphcis models (they don't
cost any extra speed unless you turn them on with the new cGraphics::enableLighting(BOOL
yesno).) Cleand up the cGameStub3DLighting code. Added normals
to the cPolygon sprites in opengl, so that they look nice with
lighting now. Turned lighting on for Defender.
Pop 22_5, Oct 8, 2001. The DEBUG_NEW wasn't the problem we put
it back. The problem --- which involved having the Debug build
crash on machines with good graphics cards ---- was caused by
trying to store the OpenGL extnesions info for the card and TRACE
it to the output window. Turns out TRACE thows an exception if
you give it more than a 512 char string. Fixed this. Also did
some little fix to make the lighting demo look better. Also changed
the behavior when swapping beween 3D and 2D graphics to reduce
the work. Rewrote the cRandomizer singleton class. Moved most
static variables out of static.cpp and into their home *.cpp files.
Pop 22_4, Oct 3, 2001. Comments out the line #define new DEBUG_NEW
in stdafx.h in case this has been causing trouble. Fixed the cSprite::radius
overloads.
Pop 22_3, Oct 2, 2001. Attempted to fix the slow-down bug by
cleaning up the cGraphicsOpenGL::activate() method. Seems to work
okay now, but needs further testing. Definitely fixed the old
bug in multiple views of OpenGL game, the problem was that our
code wasn't "activating" the appropriate OpenGL rendering
context for the view being resized or moused upon, it was not
a problem with OpenGL as some students had believed. Added better
explosions to 3D Defender.
Pop 22_1, 22_2, Sept 30, 2001, fixed bugs, added new 3D Defender
game. Noticed a serious bug with this build: over a prolonged
run time (more than five to ten minutes) the OpenGL mode gets
slower and slower, eventually locking up
Pop 21, 21_1, 21_2, Sept 8, 2001 used at start of classes. New
OpenGL support. Students looked for bugs.
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