Author: Menne Kamminga

Hi folks!

All these sleepless nights caring for my little boy bring a lot of ideas.

I have been working on the next update of the game engine:

These are things i have done so far:

• The renderer is now completely OpenGL “Core profile”, no more deprecated (old) functionality! (And perhaps in future: android support?)
• Fixed a lot of stutters in the rendering, game feels a lot smoother now.
• Many more frames per second…
• Lower cost to do particles…. 2000 particles were a lot for the previous version…. tested to 100.000 particles with the next! :D
• New network protocol features to make network play smoother.

This is what i am still working on:

• discovered that the old models (MDL) render very very slow… more then 50% of CPU is wasted on this: so i am converting old models to new models.
• Tuning and testing of all the new code… it’s a big update… so a lot of testing!

Greetz,

Menne

Hi folks!

Just posting to let you all know my wife gave birth to our first son. Mother and baby are both fine!

Of course this means a little less nerd-time for me, and a bit more father time. Next update may take a bit longer!

We are a very happy family!

PS: next update is going to be a big one! ?

Hi folks!

My wife and i are having a baby (as you may know), we were “due” last week, but we are still waiting.
In the mean-time i released the aura update, this update should improve security/stability.
It also adds the new aura i have been working on, let me know what you think of it.

Greetz, AnalyticaL

Epic performance bug fix update…

I was accidently calculating 10.000 particles 10.000 times….

100.000.000 calculation in stead of 10.000… oops?

Particle and physics performance should be much better now.