{"id":1404,"date":"2010-07-01T00:18:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T13:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2010-07-01T00:18:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T13:18:03","slug":"today-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2010\/07\/01\/today-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/VectorStormTestbed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1405\" title=\"VectorStormTestbed\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/VectorStormTestbed-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/VectorStormTestbed-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/VectorStormTestbed.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So it&#8217;s been a day of maintenance. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been merging all the VectorStorm library changes back into the public library trunk. \u00a0I&#8217;m about halfway through; \u00a0I&#8217;ve got the Mac build working, I&#8217;ll get the Win32 build going tomorrow. \u00a0The screenshot here is the original 3D sample that you may remember from ages back.<\/p>\n<p>Notable changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>vsMaterials are now very important. \u00a0Previously, they were a novelty, now they&#8217;re a core concept in the VectorStorm library, completely replacing the old &#8220;DrawMode&#8221;, and mostly supplanting direct setting of colors in display lists. \u00a0Materials are now loaded from data, instead of being specified in code.<\/li>\n<li>The bloom effect is much more subdued than previously. \u00a0This is largely because of work I&#8217;ve done in MMORPG2 to make there be a smaller visual difference between bloom-enabled and bloom-disabled builds.<\/li>\n<li>Added full lighting\/fog\/etc shaders &#8212; the same ones (currently) being used in MMORPG Tycoon 2.<\/li>\n<li>vsOverlays are no longer supported. \u00a0They were cool and quirky, but they really don&#8217;t fit in with the new focus on performance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>All this isn&#8217;t checked in yet. \u00a0I&#8217;ll put it in tomorrow, along with updated binaries for Win32 and OS X.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s been a day of maintenance. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been merging all the VectorStorm library changes back into the public library trunk. \u00a0I&#8217;m about halfway through; \u00a0I&#8217;ve got the Mac build working, I&#8217;ll get the Win32 build going tomorrow. \u00a0The screenshot here is the original 3D sample that you may remember from ages back. Notable changes:&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":[4,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-mE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404"}],"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=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}