I made an open-source server for tracking tasks and events. Everything is securely encrypted, and easy to make custom clients for. One thing you should know is that this software only contains the server and a basic testing client, but a custom client is very simple, especially if you use the testing client as a starting point.
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I finished the server and test client!!!!!!!!!
I am very happy, if it isn’t obvious by the number of exclamation points in the top line of this devlog.
I finally finished the main part, now I can use this myself and implement clients for whatever I want.
Also, I added a debug mode to help with client development.
2h 40m 2s logged
Finished server code for now- now to make a testing client to make sure it works!
I am almost done with the project. For this devlog, I mainly fixed a bunch of errors found by AI (even if it doesn’t code the best, it can still find mistakes after all it’s pretty much just a lot of pattern detection) and fixed them(myself, not with AI). Next, I will make a simple CLI test/demo client to make sure it works.
5h 40m 27s logged
Redesigned protocol to be more extensible without modifying the server much.
2h 12m 47s logged
Started work on the actual server code!
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Made it more secure and added a version number to the protocol. Next thing to do: the server code!
54m 35s logged
Documented the TCP protocol and request types.
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Started making the protocol.
I am making the protocol first so I know exactly what to program and custom clients can easily be made.
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2h 54m 55s logged
Got the 3d texture set up but not working… Help wanted!
I got the 3D texture working, but I just see a screen full of sky. I am going to work on debugging it myself, but if you want to look at the code and you see something weird, I would like to know.
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5h 51m 58s logged
Did some optimizations, discarded some to do later instead, kept 1, and started work on sending world data from CPU.
Note: No git commit for this one because I need to finish the code for tracking the world on the CPU, but there’s a good idea of what I’m doing in the screenshot!
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Fun with Squares
3h 15m 36s logged
Refractions, Reflection, and Skybox
I added refractions, reflections, and a skybox. I also made the camera move. The next steps for the project are lighting, optimizing the shader for performance(so I can have a reasonable render distance because 64 looks like a lot but the player is actually 8 blocks wide because this game is more detailed than Minecraft), and sending the world data from the CPU instead of generating it while rendering.
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Fun with Squares
4h 56m 45s logged
I finally got a start to ray tracing!
The game is finally rendering using raytracing, although it’s currently very minimal and for some reason there’s a blue bar on the left. If anyone can help figure out why, it would be much appreciated.
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Fun with Squares
2h 33m 47s logged
The Test Triangle
Look! A triangle! (This is a very common test to make sure a graphics library works)
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Fun with Squares
1h 20m 8s logged
Finally got the window drawing! (WGPU is hard)
