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In case you were wondering…

The 13 MB update is a preparation for what is coming… but it is not yet the new update i am working on!

Just in case you were wondering what is taking so long: converting 83 models takes time… Why convert? Check out these screenshots:

The 1st screenie… the engine is rendering @ 200 FPS… stable too… judging from the graph… this is new models… thought up in 2004. Implemented by myself in 2015
The 2nd screenie… the engine is rendering @ 120 FPS… also pretty stable… but every onscreen model takes a couple of milliseconds to render…. This is the old model format… thought up in 1998…

For 4 player games.. the difference is even bigger!

So… be patient… speed is coming! :D

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