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More Weapons

Add Comment! By David Rosen on September 30th, 2005

I have been working on various less visual areas like scene management, sound, and so on, so I decided it is time for another screenshot update 8)

Here are ten of the weapons we have so far:

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Weapon Reflections

Add Comment! By David Rosen on August 23rd, 2005

The Phoenix engine now supports a form of gloss map, which allows us to modulate the reflectivity of surfaces using the alpha channel of the texture. This means that we can easily render models that reflect light differently from different areas.

Don't forget to clean off your sword after you use it...

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More sky

Add Comment! By David Rosen on August 21st, 2005

I added several random features to the sky, such as fog and haze.

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Dynamic Sky

Add Comment! By David Rosen on August 20th, 2005

I added dynamic clear sky effects; the sun, moon, and stars all move realistically throughout the day. Clouds are coming soon 8)

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More shaders

Add Comment! By David Rosen on August 18th, 2005

I have been messing around with shaders some more, and put together a nifty chromatic dispersion shader and an odd garnet shader. I will probably start on some basic features that I have not added yet like model loading.

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