RealJob™ has been kicking my butt lately, and I’m waiting on the GUI work so I’ll be able to progress more in the development of the game itself; but none of these reasons has stopped me from work! Lately, most of what I’ve been doing is backend system coding, stuff like refactoring the collision/intersection system, […]
The reason why we’ve been so quiet is that we’ve been working (finally) on the game systems themselves and the gameplay is starting to take shape! First, I finished the “highlight” effect, that kicks in when the mouse cursor is on top of something that can be interacted with: First I tried making a simple […]
In my test arena, I had some performance issues in same places, where about 9 lights were shinning in a greater or smaller degree… Considering that in a deferred renderer, the main issue is bandwidth (each shaded pixel needs at least 64 bytes of data to come in from texture memory – the G-Buffer), I […]
The merge tool is finally done, and while it was a truckload of work, it was worth it for the amount of small bugs I found… Nothing was too serious or hard to fix, but most where quite complicated to find and would be hard to fix later! I’m finally finished with all the detours […]
Sorry about the lack of updates, but the day job was hectic and I had some personal stuff to sort out… Even so, I’ve had time to make another detour in terms of development roadmap and started building a “project merge” tool… Everything we’re doing in Grey is done on the SurgeEd tool, which manages […]