{"id":294,"date":"2008-10-20T21:13:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T11:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=294"},"modified":"2008-10-20T21:13:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T11:13:11","slug":"rasterstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2008\/10\/20\/rasterstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"RasterStorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/rasterstorm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-295\" title=\"rasterstorm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/rasterstorm-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So it was only a matter of time until I weakened, and added texture support to VectorStorm.\u00a0 I&#8217;d been thinking about doing it on the sly, and revealing it in a Game in a Week where your character was in search of some impossible artifact which turned out to be a textured object in a vector graphic world..\u00a0 but that all seemed like too much work.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m going to need some basic texture support for the thing I&#8217;m thinking about for the Lovecraft compo over at TigSource, so I finally hooked all the pieces together.<\/p>\n<p>In the screenshot, that&#8217;s the standard vector font, and a texture of a screenshot of the &#8220;Muncher&#8221; sprite (so technically, it&#8217;s being double-glowed), and a shot of my own ugly mug, all being affected by the standard glowy vector shaders.<\/p>\n<p>Textures still aren&#8217;t going to be the norm in my games (as I&#8217;m certainly no artist), and I&#8217;m still calling the engine &#8216;VectorStorm&#8217;, but I wanted the ability to use a few textures where they&#8217;re needed, so here they are.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also migrated all the VectorStorm library improvements back from MMORPG Tycoon to the core VectorStorm testbeds repository, so if anyone&#8217;s really curious to see the various engine changes, that&#8217;s the place to look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it was only a matter of time until I weakened, and added texture support to VectorStorm.\u00a0 I&#8217;d been thinking about doing it on the sly, and revealing it in a Game in a Week where your character was in search of some impossible artifact which turned out to be a textured object in a&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":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-4K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"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=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}