What are you working on? v16

[Catdaemon]

[QUOTE=Dlaor-guy;28440700]How about a darker background?
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/svDfE.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]

Not as good. Try some sharper shadows?

[DevBug]

You're using Mercurial.

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=DevBug;28440903]You're using Mercurial.[/QUOTE]

I noticed that too. Mercurial is a nice VCS.

[Dlaor-guy]

OK, sharper shadows it is then.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/1zKP8.png[/img]

[DevBug]

[QUOTE=esalaka;28441058]I noticed that too. Mercurial is a nice VCS.[/QUOTE]

I prefer Git for a DVCS. I'm lazy and don't want to convert the repo. If you upload a tar of the repo I can handle it myself.

[~ZOMG]

[QUOTE=Dlaor-guy;28441089]OK, sharper shadows it is then.
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/1zKP8.png[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]

I think it would look better if the icons were on the squares on the grid instead of the crosses.

[Smashmaster]

[img]http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/2208/softlighting.jpg[/img]

Soft shadowing. Haven't implemented point sources for this engine yet.

[Asgard]

The shadow looks like it's floating in my opinion.

[Smashmaster]

[QUOTE=eXiv2;28441323]The shadow looks like it's floating in my opinion.[/QUOTE]

Yeah. It's possible to fix this by increasing the resolution of the shadow map, but one thing at a time.

[Dotmister]

[QUOTE=Smashmaster;28441368]Yeah. It's possible to fix this by increasing the resolution of the shadow map, but one thing at a time.[/QUOTE]

Make the shadow caster solid, then it probably won't look like it's floating

[Catdaemon]

[img]http://img.meteornet.net/uploads/jnybio/ss2.png[/img]

Ignore the super derp entity on the top left. I have a randomly coloured shield effect here - you can't really see shit in a screenshot but it's the effect from [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGxDzqnAWOY]this video[/url] without the rotating lines (can't get them to work with my camera rrerr!!!). I changed the light attenuation a little to make it look more believable too. Currently the rendering of the map is a little garbled because the map compartmentalises itself but I didn't add any doors yet :/

Code for the shield entity for those interested:
[lua]

entity.ImageName = ""

entity.LastEffect = 0

local EffectEvery = 10000 -- miliseconds

function entity:onTick()
if not self.Parent or not self.Parent.Valid then
self:Remove()
return
end
if (MilliSecs() - self.LastEffect) > 0 then
self.Parent:EffectDispatch("roundshield", self.Pos.x, self.Pos.y, EffectEvery, 80 , math.random(128,255), math.random(128,255), math.random(128,255))
self.LastEffect = MilliSecs()+EffectEvery
end
end

function entity:onSpawn()
self.Size.Set(80,80)
end

[/lua]

Edit: oh yeah and this:

[lua]
hook.Add("onChatMessage","defaultchat",function(ply,msg)
-- This will relay to all clients with a nicely formatted message and who sent it
Msg("<"..ply.Name.."> "..msg)
SendChat("<green>"..ply.Name..": <yellow>"..string.sub(msg,5))

if string.sub(msg,5)=="shieldme" then
local e = CreateEntity("shield")
e:SetPosF(ply.Pos.x,ply.Pos.y)
e:Spawn()
e:SetParent(ply)
end
end)
[/lua]

:v:

[Smashmaster]

Took a break and fixed it. How is it now?
[img]http://i51.tinypic.com/2zpm7oy.jpg[/img]

[Asgard]

Imgur for the win.

[Catdaemon]

[QUOTE=Smashmaster;28441716]Took a break and fixed it. How is it now?
[img_thumb]http://i51.tinypic.com/2zpm7oy.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]

it looks like a tetris piece with a blurred dark patch under it

[Smashmaster]

[QUOTE=Catdaemon;28441826]it looks like a tetris piece with a blurred dark patch under it[/QUOTE]

It also looks like an upside down dick if you've got a lot of imagination. What's your point?

[~ZOMG]

[QUOTE=Smashmaster;28441716]Took a break and fixed it. How is it now?
[img_thumb]http://i51.tinypic.com/2zpm7oy.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]

The shadow needs to be sharper and it needs to go right to the edges of the shape.

[AmazingAzzy]

You're all working on your fancy 3D stuff while I have just started C# and created something I am quite proud of.

[IMG]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3695360/Updater%20download.png[/IMG]

So far it will just go through a list and download the files, later I am hopping to make it get the files to download from a website so it only updates the files that need it.

[thomasfn]

Wait, is it the shape that's casting the shadow? If so, why does the shadow itself fall across the shape? Shouldn't the shape be above the shadow?

[editline]5th March 2011[/editline]

Or does it just [i]look[/i] like the shadow covers the shape, it's hard to tell.

[Catdaemon]

[QUOTE=thomasfn;28442030]Wait, is it the shape that's casting the shadow? If so, why does the shadow itself fall across the shape? Shouldn't the shape be above the shadow?

[editline]5th March 2011[/editline]

Or does it just [i]look[/i] like the shadow covers the shape, it's hard to tell.[/QUOTE]

I think it *might* be some kind of glass but yeah it's just indistinct as hell (which was the point in my original comment).

[DevBug]

[QUOTE=Catdaemon;28441630][img_thumb]http://img.meteornet.net/uploads/jnybio/ss2.png[/img_thumb]

Ignore the super derp entity on the top left. I have a randomly coloured shield effect here - you can't really see shit in a screenshot but it's the effect from [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGxDzqnAWOY]this video[/url] without the rotating lines (can't get them to work with my camera rrerr!!!). I changed the light attenuation a little to make it look more believable too. Currently the rendering of the map is a little garbled because the map compartmentalises itself but I didn't add any doors yet :/

Code for the shield entity for those interested:
[lua]

entity.ImageName = ""

entity.LastEffect = 0

local EffectEvery = 10000 -- miliseconds

function entity:onTick()
if not self.Parent or not self.Parent.Valid then
self:Remove()
return
end
if (MilliSecs() - self.LastEffect) > 0 then
self.Parent:EffectDispatch("roundshield", self.Pos.x, self.Pos.y, EffectEvery, 80 , math.random(128,255), math.random(128,255), math.random(128,255))
self.LastEffect = MilliSecs()+EffectEvery
end
end

function entity:onSpawn()
self.Size.Set(80,80)
end

[/lua]

Edit: oh yeah and this:

[lua]
hook.Add("onChatMessage","defaultchat",function(ply,msg)
-- This will relay to all clients with a nicely formatted message and who sent it
Msg("<"..ply.Name.."> "..msg)
SendChat("<green>"..ply.Name..": <yellow>"..string.sub(msg,5))

if string.sub(msg,5)=="shieldme" then
local e = CreateEntity("shield")
e:SetPosF(ply.Pos.x,ply.Pos.y)
e:Spawn()
e:SetParent(ply)
end
end)
[/lua]

:v:[/QUOTE]

When are you going to release it? I want to mod the shit out of it.

[Dotmister]

[QUOTE=AzzyMaster;28441991]You're all working on your fancy 3D stuff while I have just started C# and created something I am quite proud of.

[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3695360/Updater%20download.png[/img_thumb]

So far it will just go through a list and download the files, later I am hopping to make it get the files to download from a website so it only updates the files that need it.[/QUOTE]

A bit like wget -i textfile.txt but with a GUI then?

[esalaka]

[QUOTE=Dotmister;28442189]A bit like wget -i textfile.txt but with a GUI then?[/QUOTE]

More like that, then parse through the file and then get those too, if they've been changed.

The text file being a filename/CRC list or something.

[AmazingAzzy]

[QUOTE=Dotmister;28442189]A bit like wget -i textfile.txt but with a GUI then?[/QUOTE]

Well it's meant to be an autoupdater for an application, so it will send the current version to a server, and the server responds with which if any files need to be downloaded.

[ColdFusion]

[QUOTE=Chris220;28438197]If you want to learn the non-deprecated stuff then the newest OpenGL Superbible is pretty much the only way to go[/QUOTE]

Any other suggestions for books/tutorials/guides on OpenGL ?

[Dotmister]

[QUOTE=esalaka;28442200]More like that, then parse through the file and then get those too, if they've been changed.

The text file being a filename/CRC list or something.[/QUOTE]

Fair enough, though wget can do that too.

[commander204]

[QUOTE=CarlBooth;28436630]That looks like the blood vessel that expands on the House MD intro.[/QUOTE]

They work the same way.

[Smashmaster]

This is what it looks like without any filtering--my old engine's way of doing it:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/KMCww.jpg[/img]

It's just to show what the shadowmap looks like. It's resolution is one lumel (luminosity pixel) per tile.

When I crank the lumel resolution up to 64 lumels/tile, you get this:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/7br3B.jpg[/img]

It runs at 5 FPS, though. I'm going to optimize everything and make it only update the lighting when it detects that the world is changed, and only in places where it's been changed.

EDIT: I like it more like this:

[img]http://i.imgur.com/wxvIY.jpg[/img]

[backwardspy]

That bottom one is how it SHOULD be

[thomasfn]

Also try making the shadow less dark, it might help the objects not seem like they're floating a bit.

[Smashmaster]

Alright. All suggestions taken into account, this is lighting a la facepunch.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/YT013.jpg[/img]

Resolution is 16 luxels/tile. It runs fairly well in real-time.