Category: Dev
It’s occurred to me that some may (quite justifiably) be thinking that ‘Dom dev’ is being side-lined in favour of writing the trilogy, because surely that must be taking much more effort/time/life to achieve… writing a book is no mean… Read More »
As promised… Enjoy! 🙂
The scene reworking is done, and a lot more logical to work with. But there’s a but… whilst things now page themselves into the scenes beautifully, they don’t really like leaving. This is something that has long been an issue… Read More »
Dev news wise, another dull week from your perspective – most likely! 🙂 I’ve been refactoring again, and by now you’ll probably be thinking “This guy really likes redoing stuff he’s already done, what about new/cool stuff?” Well, as much… Read More »
Ok, so not quite ‘weekly’… 🙂 I just thought I should reassure all that it isn’t entirely ‘all about the book’! The PR machine for IO (Insurmountable Odds) is underway, probably not as much as I should be / could… Read More »
It’s been yet another good week! NPC’s can now leave local space – so after they have ‘done their business’ (in this instance, docked and undocked from the local station) they can choose a destination and head off into the… Read More »
This week, I distracted myself from NPC’s (again) by looking at the planned procedural shaders. Initially it was to be a short distraction – as a short mental ‘vacation’ as it were. The metal shader is just an ongoing experiment… Read More »
This week I have been (largely) working on improving the autopilot course plotting, notably to improve the visuals when docking/undocking for both the player and NPC’s. I got fed up of flying through the station geometry, and being taken on… Read More »
This past week has been spent chasing down a really weird bug I have with node instancing in the scene for docking. For a video, I wanted to get vessels to at least align to the docking bay floors correctly,… Read More »
Well, it’s been an interesting week… My main site (maksw.com) got hacked by some (supposedly) Japanese son-of-a-b*tch, who injected 20,000+ files containing total crap relating to Adidas, Nike, and god knows what else products, filling up my web storage space… Read More »



















