Status update

I've been on vacation the last week, so haven't had much time to hack. Anyway, I used some of my relaxing time to think about the design of the new AI framework.

I have several things that should be possible: Easy extensible through scripting, possible to define AI through XML scene files, possible to handle AI in c++. I thought a lot about it and think I've finally found the correct design. So now it is time to hack, yay.

I've also used some time to get steamwinter running on a clean windows install. It seems that every person that have tried it so far have had VC2005 installed + some other tools. These come with a bunch of DLLs that tanxoid need. The package I had created did not distrubute these DLLs. To make things worse Microsoft decided to create something called Side by Side DLLs (SxS) that should make the DLL hell disappear. Well, the solution they came up with it not exactly elegant, and I've been fiddling around with DLL manifests and the like a lot to get things to work. I still haven't verified that it works yet, since I need a clean Windows install, but a friend has a clean install and I'll get him to test it as soon as possible.

I just cannot understand why people are so excited about VC2005... I really think it sucks donkey balls big time.