Starting Terrain
August 1st, 2005
I have been spending most of my time setting up the Lugaru 2 project, but now I am focusing on programming again. I have basic terrain rendering implemented now, similar to Lugaru except smoother and higher resolution. Soon I will add more interesting effects like grass rendering and texture blending. For comments, see the original thread.
Starting Physics
June 30th, 2005
I just started working on physics expanding on the same general idea as the Lugaru physics engine; so far I have rigid constraints working, but nothing groundbreaking yet. Unfortunately physics are hard to demonstrate in screenshot form, but I will do my best. Here is Turner with per-vertex physics after falling a bit too hard: No modern game can compete ...
GLSL and Normal Mapping
June 28th, 2005
I redid my whole shader system to use GLSL instead of CG to save on function overhead, and added lighting optimizations and normal mapping. For comments, see the original thread.
Per-pixel lighting
June 21st, 2005
I added lighting shaders to render lights per-pixel rather than per-vertex; This allows for diffuse and specular bump mapping as well as an unlimited number of light sources. I am going away for two weeks, but I will bring my computer so I can continue to work on this; though I might not be adding a major feature every day ...
Optimizations
June 20th, 2005
I added view frustum culling (objects that are out of the field of view are not drawn) and a new form of frame coherency optimization. Basically it means that it only draws objects that have changed from your point of view, so the slower you are moving the faster your framerate will be. This is a proof of concept at ...
Dynamic Cubemapping
June 19th, 2005
I added support for dynamic cubemapping. This means that reflection and refraction effects can be applied to other object in the scene, and not just skyboxes. For comments, see the original thread.
Model loading
June 18th, 2005
I added a 3ds model loading class, and got a free male and female human model from the Open3Dproject. For comments, see the original thread.