12 hours is costly…but sleep, so refreshing.

So, just before I went to sleep Sunday night I had managed to get a number of things working. This was great news. I had content loading to the screen: textures, models, and custom shaders. I had managed to set up a few functional pieces as well: skymap, lighting (through shaders), and a camera system. All of this was done with the XNA 2.0 framework.

However, _just_ before I went to sleep I managed to break something such that the engine would crash at runtime…debugging this seemed to be of no help, and since this was after about 12 hours of coding, I decided the best thing would be sleep.

Last night I returned to battle this phantom crash. Turns out, which I found in a matter of minutes, when you have a class, static, named “Content” that you are using to set the root of the content repository, you shouldn’t name a variable - “Content”. Yes, yes…now is the time to /slap and /punch me. It was at the end of 12 hour coding stint…thats all I got.

Well, to bounce back from my folly and I was able to implement a pretty basic Octree system with correct culling and so forth. I may try to grab some screenshots tonight for you as this is a bit more impressive than “WOOT! I HAVE A SQUARE!”. However, I may just continue to press forward with the engine development and see if implementing an RTree is worthwhile. Thoughts?
That is all you get for now.