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Today I finished implementing the core rendering loop for my 3D C++ raycasting engine and also added player-wall collision detction!

In summary, for every column of your screen, a ray is fired to draw a single vertical strip of a specific size based on how far that ray travels. Then all these strips are combined to form a 3D scene. I also added shading to specific sides of walls.

I then learned how to fix edge distortions (fish-eye correction) and uneven ray distributions using math + geometry.

I also spent ALOT OF MY TIME trying to fix a bug where the player could clip into a corner and get stuck inside, which got very annoying to debug. But I eventually solved it by checking for wall overlaps across the player’s every possible movement position.

I have started working on my new pseudo-3D raycaster project. Using raylib and C++, so far I have created the basic boilerplate code for the main window rendering loop for a basic 2D map. But most importantly during this first session, I created a basic, but working raycasting system which used an algorithm called DDA. (grid-traversal algorithm)To implement it, I worked through the underlying math and logic behind the algorithm, and went through some examples before implementing the code myself. I faced many bugs while coding it and it took a lot of trial and error before I finally had it working.. . The CastRay() function I created allows rays to traverse efficiently across grid cells, skipping over unnecessary positions and without missing any collisions. For the next dev log, I hope to have completed the actual Player object + movement + collision detection, and implement the 3D rendering loop that constructs the 3D scene using my CastRay function.

Dev log #1

For the past 2-3 days I got started working on a python discord bot that I named Kairos, meant to be something that helps people (like myself) maintain or track their habits through the use of Discord pings, and streaks as a reward system.

I never actually built a Discord bot before :(, so I didn’t code much of the actual features yet. My first dev log is mostly about spending my time learning new tools/libraries such as discord.py, and SQLite (for storing user data).

Progress so far:

• I made a new application on the Discord dev portal, configured bot intents and gave it administrator access to a test server
• I created the initial discord bot boiler plate code, using classes and methods provided by discord.py: setup_hook, on_ready, on_message
• I created a .env file to securely store and load the bot token
• I implemented the aiosqlite library, that runs SQL commands to an SQLite database (.db file)
• System that currently logs in new discord users who run a Kairos bot command for the first time
• Created a command group for running slash commands related to managing user habits (only has 1 command currently tho)

Things I learnt:

• Setting up a discord bot, and creating the boiler plate code
• Usage of asynchronous functions
• How bot slash commands are created and synced within discord’s command tree
• First time using SQL, learning database concepts and understanding each of the clauses: INSERT, SELECT, FOREIGN KEY, was a bit confusing but I feel like I’m getting more of a grasp on it