Boost and Stackless Python

Well, had an all day hassle with trying to get Boost to play nice with Stackless Python, the final score is me: 1 - linker: 0. Technical details here. The result: I can use an even better concurrency model than my scheduler/communicator. Although the scheduler still handles C++ and Python tasks alike, whereas (at least in my design) will strictly handle the Python side. I'm aiming for my scheduler to do the heavy lifting behind the scenes, and write most of the pythonic code with tasklets.

foundation-engine

Starting up the blog again to track my thinking. Screenshot to the left is an initial game of spiffynamehere.

Currently, it contains a GUI based on MyGUI rendered within OGRE. Object selection works through the magic that is OGRE (PlaneVolumes and Rays really).

Top end is running Python. What you see is the build-queue system in place, the larger box is a unit creation facility that pumps out smaller boxes.