Image unrelated. One of my pet peeves is games which need to quit and restart when some apparently trivial setting is changed. So when the original MMORPG Tycoon was released, I made an extra effort to make sure that you could change the game’s resolution while the game was running. It worked, but it was…
The VectorStorm version 2 project has reached a milestone today: the “glow” shader has been reimplemented to work with it. In the original VectorStorm library, this “bloom” effect was implemented using about 200 lines of raw OpenGL code. It was ugly code, it was difficult to follow, it was difficult to maintain. In the new…
So here’s some news. I’m going to be going full-time on VectorStorm and MMORPG Tycoon 2 in a few months. I expect that development will substantially speed up when that happens. As I’m preparing for that, I’m doing some much-needed housekeeping on my core VectorStorm game engine — the sort of “quality of life” improvements…
This is what happens when you don’t correctly clear out a render target before using it — you get random texture data. The big X is part of a close button used in a not-yet-and-maybe-not-ever used GUI toolkit I wrote a few months back. Much of the rest of the visible oddnesses are font pages…
It’s been a long time since I’ve had a proper, native Linux desktop machine. I used to be a heavy Linux user up until about ten years ago, at which point my old Linux laptop was literally falling apart and I just couldn’t face doing another Linux laptop install, and so hopped over onto the…