I’ve spent the last few days working on spatial partitioning, object pooling code (and fighting with stackoverflow about it), and other necessary performance optimization code. Most AAA titles seem to support something like 5-6 dynamic lights. I’m sure you’ve noticed … Continue reading
I haven’t posted in a few days because I’ve been working on almost purely programming related tasks, which don’t lead to pretty screenshots. I’ve been improving the efficiency of the spatial partitioning scheme, and terrain draw args sorting. Today though, … Continue reading
I have a priority queue of game features that need to be completed. E.g.: [-3] Pure black rolling fog to simplify fog shader. [4] Dual paraboid point light shadow map implementation [2] Terrain diffuse lighting based lightning effect. [6] Moon … Continue reading
I’ve added a bloom filter, which every big title seems to use these days. The bloom filter takes the brightest parts of the image, blurs them, and mixes the result back into the scene. This makes lights glow, softens bright … Continue reading
When implementing a complex system, where there are many variables/objects, I can’t stress enough how important it is to have some sort of assertion tests in your code. In C# we can write assertion tests that are only run when … Continue reading
Today and yesterday I mostly worked on class work. Actually I mostly worked on a single assignment :/ However, I did find time to write the terrain chunk drawing loop, which implicitly builds a quadtree and tests at each recursive … Continue reading
In my previous post about the challenge of path finding on the XBOX with XNA, my A* algorithm benchmarks were abysmally slow. Recall from my previous post that pathfinding was done in 3D, including diagonal movement, allowing 26 possible directions … Continue reading
