{"id":3272,"date":"2014-06-27T16:31:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T06:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=3272"},"modified":"2014-06-27T16:32:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T06:32:41","slug":"rendertech-5-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2014\/06\/27\/rendertech-5-build\/","title":{"rendered":"RenderTech 5 Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a slightly experimental build.\u00a0 In appearance, it&#8217;s almost identical to the Milestone 4 build from earlier this week, but under the hood it&#8217;s almost completely different.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of differences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now requires an OpenGL 3.3 core profile.<\/li>\n<li>All buildings, trees, monsters, and players are drawn using instancing. Which means that it should be possible to have a lot more of them on screen at once before it starts to affect the frame rate.<\/li>\n<li>When clicking to activate a region, it now moves the camera a bit to try to frame the region for easy editing. (Early days on this; needs more work)<\/li>\n<li>Lighting is slightly different (darker) than in the MS4 build.<\/li>\n<li>Lines don&#8217;t look as nice on Retina or HighDPI displays as they did in the MS4 build. (they&#8217;re often far too thin to be picked up by the bloom pass)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a camera glitch that has been annoying me figuratively forever, which resulted in the camera sometimes &#8216;popping&#8217; up or down up to several hundred meters, at a seemingly random point while zooming in on the ground. Making this fix involved introducing a different glitch, but I think the new glitch is subtle and inobtrusive enough that it doesn&#8217;t make me want to stick forks in my eyes every time it happens, so I call that a net win.<\/li>\n<li>Any forests placed during game start now get trees placed in them, exactly as though you&#8217;d placed the forests yourself. In MS4, such automatically-created forests had no trees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So there&#8217;s not really anything new to see or do in this build, but I&#8217;d be grateful if folks could download it anyhow, and verify whether or not it works for you! And also how it compares against the MS4 build in terms of speed\/smoothness, if any difference is noticeable.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vectorstorm.org\/MMORPG2-RT5-Win32.zip\">Windows build<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads.vectorstorm.org\/MMORPG2-RT5-OSX.dmx\">OS X build<\/a> (requires OS X 10.8 or later)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks, guys, I really appreciate your help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a slightly experimental build.\u00a0 In appearance, it&#8217;s almost identical to the Milestone 4 build from earlier this week, but under the hood it&#8217;s almost completely different. Here&#8217;s a list of differences: Now requires an OpenGL 3.3 core profile. All buildings, trees, monsters, and players are drawn using instancing. Which means that it should&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24,25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/opengl-logo.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-QM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272"}],"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=3272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3272\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}