What are you working on?

[mankrip]

3-step dithered lightmap rendering, on top of dithered texture rendering, using separated surface caches:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CFAZbQrUIAAezKo.png:orig

This was done in the last two days. It's unfinished, blended textures and alphamasked textures are fullbright now, but that'll be easy to fix.

It has a significant impact on the framerate, but there still are many things that can be optimized to compensate for this, and I already get 72 fps at 1280*720 anyway.

[Shpuld]

Looks very sick mankrip, I like the small detail on the wall that the dithering causes as a side effect, has much more personality than just regular 16/32bit color depth and looks miles better than banded 8bit.

[xaGe]

[toneddu2000]

Thanks xaGe! The improvements on specular and reflection maps, plus darker environment make the reflections more intense

EDIT:@mankrip: the dither effect is interesting! All made in pure C?

[sock]

[toneddu2000]

[jim]

For me level design (and pretty much everything in a game) is more about the gameplay. And I feel like I don't get to do it enough because of having to do all the art too... I'm thinking that I could make a game with just some simple primitives, like cubes, pyramids, cylinders, etc.. some day maybe when I get my current stuff done.

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Here's some keys. Each key shape can have , or they could be fixed to these colors. Should have maybe switched the Gear and Skeleton key places for better contrast on the background.


And some wip of a boss monster called HammerHead. It's kinda like a Balrog. There could also be a non boss version with smaller wings, brighter texture, some different weapons.

[toneddu2000]

[mankrip]

[toneddu2000]

[sock]

[mankrip]

Great screenshot, sock.

On a side note, MFX's CleanCut map fooled me into thinking my engine was buggy.

My engine has individual r_water_blend_alpha, r_slime_blend_alpha, r_lava_blend_alpha and r_portal_blend_alpha cvars for the turbulent surfaces. The old r_wateralpha cvar is ignored on surfaces assigned to those new cvars, and vice-versa.

When playing CleanCut, many surfaces were seemingly displaying grey void, and changing r_maxsurfs and r_maxedges didn't help.

It was only when playing it with Baker's Mark V engine that I saw that those surfaces were supposed to be translucent. And then I saw that the old r_wateralpha in my engine was still set to 1, and realized that those surfaces were actually turbulent surfaces using a flat-colored texture to simulate glass, and the name of that texture didn't match any of the categories of my new cvars, so the value of the old r_wateralpha cvar was used for them instead.

Creating new standards can lead to funny situations...

[hogsy]

Things...


(and yes, the engine is integrated into it.)

[motorsep]

Working on day/night cycles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5xIq3a36u4

[hogsy]