https://xaviercs.com/Recent content on XavierCSHugoen-gb© XavierCSMon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://xaviercs.com/posts/2026-03-16-a-simple-entity-component-system/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://xaviercs.com/posts/2026-03-16-a-simple-entity-component-system/Being able to render some 3D models to a window is all well and good, but this doesn’t constitute a particularly useful game engine. What we need is some way for a developer to move “things” around within 3D space without having to recompile the game engine. Why use ECS? There are many arguments you can find online about why Object Oriented Programming (OOP) is “bad”. Many of these arguments don’t convince me as they consist of arguing against poorly written OOP code that abuses inheritance.https://xaviercs.com/posts/2026-02-10-true-3d-rendering-effect-engine-devlog-2/Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://xaviercs.com/posts/2026-02-10-true-3d-rendering-effect-engine-devlog-2/It has been a while since my last post, and much has changed since then. Firstly, I have ditched Rust and WGPU for C++ and Vulkan. I felt the Rust rendering ecosystem was not developing in the way I liked, and relying on Rust bindings to C/C++ libraries made updating dependencies difficult, hence the switch. Although Rust’s memory safety will be sorely missed, development has become much smoother. What can the engine do?https://xaviercs.com/posts/2024-06-15-effect-engine-devlog-1/Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://xaviercs.com/posts/2024-06-15-effect-engine-devlog-1/Welcome to the very first devlog of Effect Engine! Being the first devlog, this one will be a bit unusual. It will roughly cover how the game engine currently works as well as what I am currently working on. There won’t be many demos at the moment or the forseeable future, as the game engine is still in a state where it cannot make a fully functional game. However, I hope to change that slightly later on with the introduction of working text and menus.https://xaviercs.com/posts/2022-10-25-embedded-rust-on-pico-w/Tue, 25 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://xaviercs.com/posts/2022-10-25-embedded-rust-on-pico-w/The Raspberry Pi PicoW is a powerful and inexpensive microcontroller with wireless support. However, when trying to run the classic “blinky” example from rp-hal, you may have discovered that it does not work. This is because the onboard LED (GPIO25) must be accessed through the wireless controller. A port of the driver is being written as we speak. Fret not however, as it is still possible to access most of the other GPIO with rp-hal.https://xaviercs.com/posts/2022-07-22-welcome-to-xaviercyber/Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://xaviercs.com/posts/2022-07-22-welcome-to-xaviercyber/Hi, and welcome to xaviercs.com. Today we will discuss how this website is put together, what it will be used for, and potential future content. How this website is constructed At the time of writing, the amount of CSS and HTML written by myself is very minimal, though this will definitely change as I update the site and add necessary functionality. The heavy lifting has been done by a combination of the Jekyll Static Site Generator (SSG) and the beautiful TeXt Theme.https://xaviercs.com/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://xaviercs.com/about/XavierCS is a casual technology journal and devlog started by Xavier, a game engine developer with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science. Being casual, it means that articles consist of what the author wants to write about and his opinions without following any strict themes. Detailed benchmarks and hardware testing is not currently in the scope of the journal, however it is something being considered in the distant future. Currently, and likely forever, the only author is Xavier.