{"id":2785,"date":"2013-02-22T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2013-02-22T18:58:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T08:58:07","slug":"yay-wasting-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2013\/02\/22\/yay-wasting-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Yay, wasting time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent two hours trying to figure out why my starfield-with-custom-rendering-code wasn&#8217;t rendering unless I put it somewhere which ought to have been behind the camera, and why all the tests for which stars were visible weren&#8217;t working correctly.<\/p>\n<p>Completely forgot that the camera transform needs to be supplied to the rendering code, for these custom-rendering entities.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not done for you automatically, the way it is with vsSprites and vsModels.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n<p>I started out planning to steal the starfield from the old Asteroids testbed game.\u00a0 But having looked at it again, it&#8217;s only six single-pixel dots.\u00a0 So maybe that&#8217;s not ideal for use here.\u00a0 I&#8217;m putting in a 3D starfield behind the 2D game, just because it looks nice.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just spent two hours trying to figure out why my starfield-with-custom-rendering-code wasn&#8217;t rendering unless I put it somewhere which ought to have been behind the camera, and why all the tests for which stars were visible weren&#8217;t working correctly. Completely forgot that the camera transform needs to be supplied to the rendering code, for&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":[41,17],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-IV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785"}],"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=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2787,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}