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<\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/a> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> I ran into a creative roadblock today, and so eventually gave up and worked on a technical problem, instead: making the engine’s 3D line rendering work using screen-space line widths. That is, if I ask for lines 5 pixels wide, I should get lines 5 pixels wide, no matter how close or far they are from the camera.<\/p>\n
This is actually a somewhat tricky procedure; I’m building 3D rectangles which, when viewed from the current camera, appear to be of a single, set width across their whole length. And the way that I’m doing it won’t necessarily work properly in all cases, particularly when a line extends from in front of the camera to behind the camera.<\/p>\n
But for the moment, it seems to be working out okay.<\/p>\n
What follows is the set of screenshots I took over the course of the day, as I tried to make cursor outlines exactly five pixels wide, regardless of how close or far away the cursor was from the camera. As you can see, there were a lot of failures along the way! (If there’s interest, I’ll post a technical breakdown of how I’m doing this)<\/p>\n
Virtually no progress on the MS5 build today, which means that it might be pushed out one extra day, to Sunday. But hopefully no later than that!<\/p>\n
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