V0.8.4 – New Racing Teams, Upcoming Track Editor Jam & Soundtrack Release!
Keeping with the 4-6 week release cadence, Version 0.8.4 is out now with some pretty large changes to some noticable and not so noticable parts of the game. The bulk of changes and work is mostly under the…
V0.8.3 Update – Improved Visuals & Faster Loading Times
Version 0.8.3 is out now with Improved Visuals, 50% Faster Loading Times, and a number of Editor & Gameplay tweaks! Visuals Skyboxes now have selectable cube maps for each planet and level theme along with improved…
Shader Series – Screen Space Reflections
Screen Space Reflections are used in every engine these days. Games from The Witcher 3 to Fortnite all employ this effect, so it was natural that I wanted it in Vertices. While I came across a…
Mesh Generation in Metric Racer
Streamlining our Content Generation for Track meshes and World Items.
Shader Series – Camera Motion Blur
Once I had the core mechanic of Metric Racer down, I tried a number of ways to increase perceived speed to make it seem that the player was moving faster than they actually were in the…
Shader Series – Emissive Materials
Selective Bloom, Emissive Glow, Fake HDR, there’s a number of ways to call this, but with Metric Racer being a scifi racing game, there was a need to make it look, well, scifi-ish. What that meant…
Vertices Engine Optimizations – Camera Frustum Culling
If a tree falls in the woods, but there’s no Camera Frustums around to see it, does it still get rendered?
Check out through the link how we implement Camera Frustum Culling to optimise 3D scenes within the #VerticesEngine.
Metric Dev – Ship AI
Getting AI’s Running in Metric Racer. RT gives a quick snap shot of all of it over at his dev blog.
Virtex Edge Dev Blog: Porting 2D Game Play
This week I’ve posted about the experience of porting over from XNA under Windows too MonoGame under both Windows and Linux within a 2D Game. Porting 2D Game Play I’m working on two games at the…