{"id":1395,"date":"2010-06-29T00:34:19","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T13:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2010-06-29T01:06:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T14:06:58","slug":"a-day-of-rest-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2010\/06\/29\/a-day-of-rest-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"A day of rest&#8230; or not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after pushing out all those bug fixes yesterday, I decided to take a day away from the MT2 codebase, before starting on work toward MS2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and it didn&#8217;t really work out. \u00a0I ended up spending much of this &#8220;day off&#8221; playing with MT2&#8217;s shaders, just for fun. \u00a0As part of that, I found the causes of the weird visuals on grass on ATI cards (my own fault; \u00a0I had actually already fixed it on my ATI machine, and then forgot to commit the fix so that it&#8217;d be included as part of the 1.04 build) \u00a0I also found that for some reason which I don&#8217;t currently understand, the floaters (the red numbers that appear when you place buildings) are causing really strange fog effects on ATI cards. \u00a0I&#8217;m completely baffled by this, so I just disabled those floaters for now. \u00a0They weren&#8217;t giving any useful information in the MS1 build anyway; \u00a0I can figure out what&#8217;s going wrong with them later on.<\/p>\n<p>While I was playing with shaders, I also switched to a nicer fog implementation. \u00a0Higher quality, fixes some other fog glitches on ATI cards, and actually runs a lot faster, too.<\/p>\n<p>No other changes in this build. \u00a0So unless you&#8217;re running on an ATI card, it&#8217;s probably not worth bothering with the update. \u00a0But you ATI users, this one&#8217;s for you. \u00a0It&#8217;s MS1.05:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vectorstorm.org\/MMORPG2-MS1.05-Win32.zip\">Win32 build<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No OS X build for this version, since ATI on OS X wasn&#8217;t experiencing the rendering glitches in MS1.04.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, if you give this a run on an ATI card, please let me know how it works out for you; \u00a0whether the graphic glitches from previous builds are actually fixed now, or whether there are still some left. \u00a0Thanks, guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after pushing out all those bug fixes yesterday, I decided to take a day away from the MT2 codebase, before starting on work toward MS2. &#8230;and it didn&#8217;t really work out. \u00a0I ended up spending much of this &#8220;day off&#8221; playing with MT2&#8217;s shaders, just for fun. \u00a0As part of that, I found the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-mv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}