Nat!'s Web Journal

MOGRE does compile with Visual Studio 2008. It's another win by default and not necessarily by technical merit.

So it's either MOGRE or nothing. Nothing meaning, that I don't do the 3D in C# but instead opt for a separate C++ app that I myself bridge into C# or that communicates with the C# App.

Now the last time I touched a 3D modelling tool has been on an Atari ST... or so. I remember that creating models in a 3D view was a real pain, and that ultimately I was editing the models usually in a kind of spreadsheet list manually and seeing the changes in real time in the 3D view.

After about three hours with Blender it has become fairly clear, that there has been virtually no progress except that Blender can't even do the basics well. The very first very obvious bug (Mac OS X or Windows) is this: Start Blender and you get a default scene with three objects (lamp, camera, cube). Now go into the outline view and you see... nothing (or almost nothing), which is pretty perplexing. Actually it's a simple redrawing problem, when you switch the view to "Oops Schematic" and back then you get the contents.

But Blender can take gestures to initate rotations or translations and reorganize the panels with fluid animation, developer time surely well spent...

Now Blender may be otherwise a fine product, but I have my doubts...

   struct rlimit rlim;
   getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
   rlim.rlim_cur = 0x8000;
   setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>


int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) 
{
   NSAutoreleasePool     *pool;
   NSMutableDictionary   *dict;
   NSMutableDictionary   *other;
   
   pool = [NSAutoreleasePool new];

   dict  = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
   other = [[[dict class] new] autorelease];
   
   NSLog( @"A");
   [other retain]; // Program received signal:  “EXC_BAD_ACCESS”.
   NSLog( @"B");
   
   [pool release];
   return( 0);
}

   other = [[[dict classForCoder] new] autorelease];