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Offline Swifty

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Re: Major features I'm working on
Yeah, thanks for the comprehensive sitrep. I should definitely fix render-to-texture scripting access and devise a good way to for scripts to integrate with the engine's HUD gauge system.

 

Offline torc

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Re: Major features I'm working on
other question:
Will the hud be affect from post processing?

I think is good having an hud that glows a bit :)
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Re: Major features I'm working on
I think that's a bad idea. If you want a glow effect on the hud, it's better and less expensive rendering-wise to incorporate that effect into the HUD bitmaps.
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Offline Valathil

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Re: Major features I'm working on
i think he means the rtt hud and this would be a yes its affected
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Offline Nuke

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Re: Major features I'm working on
at some point rtt would need to mesh with the currently theoretical materials system. say your doing a monitor you may want to draw to the glow map and have a static or animated bitmap as the diffuse texture. if your doing a mirror would use the dynamic texture as diffuse and want to overlay specular to make the mirror look dirty when the sun hits it (much like my monitor). another idea, scorch maps. when damage happens you could figure out on which polygon the imact happened, and get the uv position, then draw impact bitmaps to the scortch map, and blend it multiplicatively into the diffuse texture, lts of cool things you can do with this. if your rendering hud gauges to the panel in the cockpit model, such feetures would be needed to improve the appearance of rtt textures.
« Last Edit: September 29, 2011, 12:40:40 am by Nuke »
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Offline Valathil

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Re: Major features I'm working on
Food for thought here: What about making the collision detection a seperate Thread cause its kinda asynchronous anyway with the time delay on the checks and everything. Would help on multicores.
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Offline Swifty

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Re: Major features I'm working on
I kinda don't want to think about designing a multithreaded collision detection system until my current revisions to the collision detection system are done.

 

Offline CaptJosh

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Aside from that, wouldn't that take rewriting the whole engine, seeing as the engine is not multi-threaded at all?
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No, it would take rewriting those subsystems of the engine, which is a big enough task already.
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Offline CaptJosh

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My mistake. I've seen a lot of "we should make FSO multithreaded" suggestions over the years since I discovered FSO, and most of them seemed to get shot down based on the need to rewrite basically the whole engine to even multithread part of it. Others were shot down with, "If you think it's such a great idea to do that, you do it."

In any case, there are many features that need to be worked out before there's a feature freeze and the time taken to multithread even part of the engine.
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Re: Major features I'm working on
There's a huge difference between programmers familiar with the codebase talking about it and random forum members.
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Offline CaptJosh

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Agreed. In any case, I hope I'm wrong about how long I think it might take to get to the point where a feature freeze can be put in place and work on multi-threading the engine can begin.
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Re: Major features I'm working on
The main argument against doing something like that is that there are plenty of other ways to optimize the code without multi-threading, that we haven't done yet.  Supposedly.  But seriously, if multi-threading is ever the answer, we'll do what is necessary in order to accomplish it.
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Offline CaptJosh

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Sounds like a plan to me. I look forward to all the optimizations you coders can manage. Me, I'm no coder. Closest I get to it is writing PHP. Oh and correcting some constant defines in a single file for another app I compile from source. Someone forgot to make one of the source files define _STDINT_H if _STDINT was already defined and _STDINT_H wasn't if the project was being built for windows. Of course, that has to do with none of the sdk includes, either from MS or the Quicktime SDK having that constant defined anymore. Nonetheless, it's a sanity check that should already have been in place in the particular source code file to which I had to add the necessary ifdef and ifndef lines. But still, that's the most I've ever done with actual c++, and I had to get help to figure that much out.
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Re: Major features I'm working on
Show this man more appreciation. I'm doing the flashy eyecandy stuff everybody notices. He does the invisible grunt work that nonetheless is needed and is as awesome as my work!

Oh hey now, heat distortion and shadows are very cool and look awesome, but hardly the only things I look for in the nightly changelog. I'm constantly hoping to see more optimizations. Hosting Delenda Est Co-op takes a lot out of ones computer after all, and every little bit helps.
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Offline Quanto

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Re: Major features I'm working on
Hey Swifty,
A few months back (maybe a year ago? I don't remember), I asked you about rendering shield/weapon/speed gauges as a diagonal (or even arbitrary angle) instead of vertical or horizontal. Did you ever get around to looking at that? Is that in your current To-Do list? Because as things stand, my current hud doesn't exactly work... ;_;

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Offline Nuke

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Re: Major features I'm working on
you can render bars like that with 2 polygons, and 2 images of full and empty bars. by changing the size and uv coords of the polygons and texturing each with one bitmap or the other you can approximate a progress bars. also polygons can be rotated so you should be able to pull it off. i think you can in scripting (another case for scripted gauges). could also support ani/eff based gauges, but i dont think they are as good.

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after looking up some functions i doubt that this can be done with scripting now. currently gr.drawPolygon() doesnt let you change the uv space for its vertices, of course i cant imagine this being hard to add in.
« Last Edit: October 12, 2011, 11:32:34 am by Nuke »
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Offline Quanto

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Re: Major features I'm working on
I'd rather avoid using lua if at all possible
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I'd rather avoid using lua if at all possible

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That's a potentially sexy HUD you got going there, Quanto.  :cool: