Elysian Shadows

Thankies

While I'm at it. Linux anyone?



EDIT:
Please for the love of god don't look at the poly/vert count

N64vSNES wrote: Please for the love of god don't look at the poly/vert count

Is is wrong or just horribly unoptimized?

(btw. there is already Codeblocks 10.05 out, you might want to check that out :D )

Milch wrote:

N64vSNES wrote: Please for the love of god don't look at the poly/vert count

Is is wrong or just horribly unoptimized?

(btw. there is already Codeblocks 10.05 out, you might want to check that out :D )

Depends how you want to view it really. If the face is blocked by others then it won't get drawn and it won't be added to the counter. If OpenGL finds that it won't be visible and doesn't render it, it will still be added to the counter. So it's how many polygons are "attempted" to be drawn, not how many "have" been drawn.

To be honest, one you're past the overhead of Java I'm stunned at how efficient Minecraft renders the map.

I believe that is because Minecraft uses a form of summarizing that I use, where if blocks are adjacent to each other then it doesn't render the two seperately, it renders it as one prism instead. so: the large empty space being one cube instead of the individual 18 that it would render.

MadPumpkin wrote:I believe that is because Minecraft uses a form of summarizing that I use, where if blocks are adjacent to each other then it doesn't render the two seperately, it renders it as one prism instead. so:

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just would get rendered as:
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the large empty space being one cube instead of the individual 18 that it would render.

That's what I've read.

Yea, it's really rather genius. But I do it a bit differently, given that my game isn't a bunch of cubes... But Minecraft did help me out because I had never thought about summarizing adjacent object since I don't use cubes. So what I do now, is if it's barely out of fog, (barely within view distance). Then my custom model format (no animations at this time D:) will use labels to decide what parts of the model that my engine shouldn't render at a certain distance. I'm trying to add these attributes to .OBJ models that I export from blender. But I can't QUITE get the obj format to work on my own, if anyone has resources that'd be appreciated by the way.

But in closing, I suggest that you do something like that, I know you don't really need to, given that you're not using Java. But it will still make it easier on your engine. :P

I was thinking of doing the same once I learnt OpenGL, too bad you bet me to it haha. Would've taken me ages to get to that stage anyways, but either way grand job :D

Pornomag wrote:I was thinking of doing the same once I learnt OpenGL, too bad you bet me to it haha. Would've taken me ages to get to that stage anyways, but either way grand job :D

If I'm going to do better than Notch, someone needs to do better than me

Looking good, motherfucker. I know we've had our differences, but a man deserves credit when he has done well.

You've done well.

GyroVorbis wrote:Looking good, motherfucker. I know we've had our differences, but a man deserves credit when he has done well.

You've done well.

Wow thanks man, always motivating to hear compliments from the more experienced

Actions really do speak louder than words. Hopefully, I can buckle down and start putting out some content rather than sitting around just talking.

N64vSNES wrote:

Pornomag wrote:I was thinking of doing the same once I learnt OpenGL, too bad you bet me to it haha. Would've taken me ages to get to that stage anyways, but either way grand job :D

If I'm going to do better than Notch, someone needs to do better than me

I don't know about better, but I'll ante up different. Working on some tech demo stuff right now to see if I can do a voxel terrain game on mobile. Here's where I'm at so far.

teamtwentythree wrote:

N64vSNES wrote:

Pornomag wrote:I was thinking of doing the same once I learnt OpenGL, too bad you bet me to it haha. Would've taken me ages to get to that stage anyways, but either way grand job :D

If I'm going to do better than Notch, someone needs to do better than me

I don't know about better, but I'll ante up different. Working on some tech demo stuff right now to see if I can do a voxel terrain game on mobile. Here's where I'm at so far.

Mmmm, that's real nice man. I have a full scale nerd-on here, but I'm in work so I have to be careful not to have a nerd-gasm. In all seriousness, that looks epic. You should start a new thread for it to keep us updated.

teamtwentythree wrote:

N64vSNES wrote:

Pornomag wrote:I was thinking of doing the same once I learnt OpenGL, too bad you bet me to it haha. Would've taken me ages to get to that stage anyways, but either way grand job :D

If I'm going to do better than Notch, someone needs to do better than me

I don't know about better, but I'll ante up different. Working on some tech demo stuff right now to see if I can do a voxel terrain game on mobile. Here's where I'm at so far.

Damn dude. Looks great.

I've been doing a lot of stuff with Crafter but most of it is behind the scenes optimizations and all that tacky math which a screenshot can't show. Hopefully I'll have another update soon.
I'd also like to blame University course work for the lack of updates.

I too would like to seem more of this though, teamtwentythree. You should open a new thread for it

Damn he's right, that's sick teamtwentythree. I'd love to hear about that behind the scenes math by the way, just because you don't have anything to show doesn't mean you don't have something to show