I’ve kind of been sitting on this for a while, but finally decided to go ahead and upload it somewhere. It’s kind of low-resolution and I’m not thrilled about dropping the frame rate to 30, but it’s much more comprehensible than the still from the last picture!
Lots and lots of stuff been going on, lately. Most notable is probably this prototype for the “taking the MMORPG offline” sequence, in which the sky breaks up into hundreds of pieces and explodes away. The still probably doesn’t do it proper justice. Other fun stuff includes further rendering optimisations (got VBOs fully working, got…
Just a quick note that yes, I’m still alive and kicking. Been a little distracted by various non-coding things, but have fixed up a few more rendering issues. Most notable new stuff is that we no longer waste time drawing terrain triangles which would have been drawn beneath the water (since the water surface is…
So it’s been an extremely busy day today. Today I revamped a lot of VectorStorm’s underside, in order to support this magical feature that I’ve been wanting for a while; the ability to do the old style “bright vector glow” at the same time as rendering other geometry normally. Long-time readers will have noticed that…
There’s an old maxim amongst programmers, that premature optimisation is the root of all evil. Or to put that in a less glib way, it’s generally a bad idea to perform optimisations before your program is completed, and it’s always a bad idea to perform optimisations if you have no way to check your performance…