Bullet holes…
After a nasty fight (brain was slow today!), got the bullet holes up and running in the game! Also added a small camera shake with the shots, to lend some force to the weapon… Next, plasma burns! Now listening to “Torn” by “Evergrey”
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More issues with decals…
Unfortunately, my initial idea that screen-space decals was some sort of magic bullet was completely wrong… They work great a lot of the time, easy to implement, fast… but (there’s always a but) they have some small details which break it down… The issue I talked about yesterday was mostly solved with the stencil buffer: […]
What’s life without some problems?!…
Well… Just finished implementing decals… It went better than expected, since I’ve never tried implementing screen-space decals before… The main difficulty of screen-space decals is the occlusion. Most of the code is related to this, and mine is working great: One problem I’m already seeing is the fact that the way the decal maps removes […]
Started with decals
One of the effects I would like to use extensively in the game is “decals”… A decal is just a kind of painting you put on top of the geometry. Decals used to be done by intersecting the world geometry with the decal shape and drawing those polygons, but since I now have the normal/depth […]
Finished with props…
Finally finished with props! Had to go into the maps and readjust positions because of the change in pivot point, but now the system is working very nicely! Also added a FPS counter on the game, because I had the feeling that the rendering on OpenGL was slower than on D3D9, but it ended up […]
Pirate lair props done!
Finished the props on the pirate lairs, which involved adjusting the pivot points of most assets in the game… Now I need to work on all the maps to account for this… It’s boring work, but easy enough (except the part where I have to add prop manipulation to the editor, which shouldn’t be too […]
More work on props
Today I managed to fix one of the bugs that, although not game breaking, annoyed me the most: props in front of doorways: To do this, I just check the bounding box of the prop with the bounding box of the door… This was a bit of a headache because the coordinate spaces are different […]
Fixing props
Now I’m working on something boring: fixing small stuff… In this case, prop placement on the pirate lairs. Currently, a lot of the props get in front of doors, have wrong bounding boxes, etc. For example: In this case, the table has a bad pivot point and the size is not aligned with the voxel […]
Alpha test on shaders
As I mentioned yesterday, because of the way I’m doing the alpha-testing, if I want to place the depth on the alpha channel of the render target that I’m using for the screenspace effects, I need a way to keep the alpha testing, but don’t use the end result of the rendering for it… If […]
Screenspace Effects – Part 2
Time has been a bit tight lately (just back from holidays, so work has piled up), but today, between house chores and resting, I managed to add rendering of the normals: Here you can see the normals mapped to colors… For example, the lime green corresponds to a normal vector of (0,1,0). Now I want […]