In our last post, we presented the new event system in Vortex and how it allows scripts to receive and react to input events. This week we want to put…Continue readingLet’s Build Pong in Vortex Engine!
This week work went into adding support for receiving events and passing them down to scripts. The idea is to allow scripts to provide some logic that reacts to user…Continue readingEvent Handling via Scripts
As we continue to grow the Lua scripting API for Vortex, it’s become clear that we need a better, less verbose way to expose “classes” and their functions to the…Continue readingModern C++ Lua Interface
This past weekend I spent some time making sure the Lua scripting runtime worked correctly on the iOS runtime. While archiving already took care of including scripts into generated Vortex…Continue readingScripting the Runtime
With the vertical slice complete and the 3D renderer in a good spot, this week I decided to shift focus to the scripting API of the engine. Scripting is a…Continue readingDeveloping the Scripting API
This week has been a big one in terms of wrangling together several big pillars of the engine to provide wider functionality. The image below shows how we can now…Continue readingPutting it all together
This week, work on the scripting interface continued. As the image below shows, I can now access an entity’s components and even drill down to its Material through the Lua…Continue readingComponent Introspection
For the last couple of weeks, a lot of work has been going into developing the scripting API that the engine is exposing to Lua. Embedding a scripting language into…Continue readingBinding C++ to Lua
Last week when we left off, we were able to implement a Lua REPL in the Vortex Editor console. This week, I wanted to take things further by allowing Lua…Continue readingBuilding the Engine Scripting API
This week I added scripting support to the Engine. I chose to go with Lua because of how easy it is to integrate into existing C/C++ codebases. I’ve mentioned Lua…Continue readingAdding a Scripting Engine to Vortex