Brick by Brick

Now the third-person controller works, I'm integrating it with the previous first-person and the free camera mode from my Mesh Tool/Import application.  Along with the improved build UI, the game will soon be back together and I'll be pioneering in a new tiny world to run and jump around.

There are still a couple of bugs, and rendering issues to resolve, but it totally feels like I'm on the road to a new public release now.

Code wise, there isn't much too the new camera/camera controller works.  The input and camera stacks are now both trees, with the Game Input responsible for switching different input policies in and out, and for switching different cameras and camera controllers in and out at the same time.

There is a slightly weird C++ workaround in my camera hierarchy because of the reference counted pointers I am using, but I'll either fix it or declare "No Fault Found" and move on.

My reference counted pointers are built on incomplete types, and point toward concrete implementations. However I ended up with a public method on a camera subclass that doesn't belong in the interface. Conundrum.
I'll revisit the problem before long, and the workaround doesn't create any cyclic dependencies or garbage collect problems, but its no longer code I can be proud of which is a non-trivial problem.

Usually I can sleep on problems like this, and it all comes out in the wash during review. Which seems like a reasonable plan this time too.

Until next time, think inside the box!