{"id":390,"date":"2009-01-04T19:57:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T09:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-01-04T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T10:01:43","slug":"still-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/01\/04\/still-working\/","title":{"rendered":"Still working"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lordp2.png\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lordp3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-393\" title=\"lordp3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lordp3-300x195.png\" alt=\"lordp3\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lordp3-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lordp3-1024x668.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/lordp3.png 1052w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not going to be finished tonight, I suspect.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m still doing my best.<\/p>\n<p>More than half my time has been going into fixes to VectorStorm&#8217;s 3D engine code..\u00a0 putting in basic, simple things that I&#8217;d overlooked before is taking up a rather surprising amount of time.\u00a0 One big obvious missing thing that didn&#8217;t occur to me until I needed it was lighting;\u00a0 VectorStorm has absolutely no concept of lights, at the moment.. and its only method of applying varying colors to optimised mesh is the old &#8220;Overlay&#8221; mechanism..\u00a0 I&#8217;ve quickly hacked in a way to set colors, but lighting is out of the question at this point;\u00a0 I&#8217;ll have to add it post-Lord.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the terrain lighting you see above is actually being calculated explicitly on the CPU, instead of being calculated on the GPU.. so it&#8217;s not as fast as it could be.\u00a0 But it shouldn&#8217;t be too big a problem.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the silly thing is that the game design I&#8217;ve worked out for Lord is entirely 2D;\u00a0 the 3D stuff is only used for visualisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not going to be finished tonight, I suspect.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m still doing my best. More than half my time has been going into fixes to VectorStorm&#8217;s 3D engine code..\u00a0 putting in basic, simple things that I&#8217;d overlooked before is taking up a rather surprising amount of time.\u00a0 One big obvious missing thing that didn&#8217;t occur&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-6i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}