Category: Dev
Sorry, couldn’t resist 🙂 Thanks Arthur C. Clarke for being such a visionary! Star rendering… I’ve left it alone for quite a while – as we’ve got plenty of other things to be working on at the moment – but… Read More »
Engine Flares Revisited
I’m sure this one thing is going to kill me. I realised my intended approach is very similar to a toon-shader. I need the effect to “roll off” based on the viewing angle. So I started tinkering with one to… Read More »
So, I had a cool idea to create a shader which would make engine flares look a whole lot nicer. A volumetric effect, which would produce a nice glow inside any volume from any viewing angle. It would have many… Read More »
Tell me a story
When we were looking at what we really like in any videogame, it’s always that narrative that you create yourself, just by playing the game. I’ve watched so many GTA cutscenes that I immediately forgot that I sometimes wonder what… Read More »
Snap Happy
Coming right on the heels of Mak’s High Resolution Worlds I’m going to take the opportunity to talk to you about one of the coolest things you can bolt onto your vessel. The all purpose, auto-focusing, water resistant digital camera… Read More »
So – we’ve banged on about “no hyperspace, seamless this-that-and-the-other” – what do we mean? Traditionally – games have to shift in huge amounts of data (levels, textures etc.) in order to provide a larger game experience than will necessarily… Read More »
Yes, that featured image is being rendered in real-time, in Dominion 🙂 So far, I’ve been using 2048×1024 (or lower) images for the planet surfaces. For populated worlds I’ve been sticking with the Blue Marble surface maps for day and night… Read More »
Ok, it’s about time for some posts! So far shooting stuff has been based on your basic point/ray to sphere  – a more sophisticated system was planned for later on in development – but to bring the wow-factor up a… Read More »
Insurmountable Odds
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