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amazing engine #371555 05/22/11 12:20 05/22/11 12:20
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,615 Cambridge Joey OP Expert
Joey OP Expert Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,615 Cambridge	wow, now that's what i call amazing. one of those things you can't normally achieve with an allround engine - without extending it. http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinit...3&Itemid=93

Re: amazing engine [Re: Joey] #371559 05/22/11 13:57 05/22/11 13:57
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,713 L�beck Slin Expert
Slin Expert Joined: May 2005 Posts: 2,713 L�beck	Nice LOD system... I wonder how and when which data is generated and how to customize things in a kinda endless universe and how they handle collision detection... Lite-C Tut. 1 Lite-C Tut. 2 Lite-C Tut. 3 (en) Shader Tutorial (ger) http://www.slindev.com

Re: amazing engine [Re: Slin] #371560 05/22/11 14:15 05/22/11 14:15
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,615 Cambridge Joey OP Expert
Joey OP Expert Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,615 Cambridge	i bet he's using geometry shaders for the terrain, which seems to be generated procedurally.

Re: amazing engine [Re: Joey] #371561 05/22/11 14:25 05/22/11 14:25
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BoH_Havoc User Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 655 to your left	Quote: i bet he's using geometry shaders for the terrain Nope, he's using pixelshader 3.0 at max, so no geo-shaders I'm following this project for quite some time now, and every new video is more impressive than the videos before. Quite an impressive project. You can find more info on the technical side of the game (plus some nice tips) here: http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=75&board=6.0 Shade-C EVO Lite-C Shader Framework

Re: amazing engine [Re: BoH_Havoc] #371582 05/22/11 18:53 05/22/11 18:53
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Joey OP Expert Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 4,615 Cambridge	he's creating them on the cpu. weird. seems as if i underestimated its performance. but then, a good perlin noise algorithm can be optimized quite well. this is game developing at its finest, truly. i'd so love to have more time for stuff like that. edit: just noticed he's still using legacy opengl code. ugh ^^ Last edited by Joey; 05/22/11 18:56.

Re: amazing engine [Re: Joey] #371584 05/22/11 19:32 05/22/11 19:32
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,640 Earth Germanunkol Expert
Germanunkol Expert Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,640 Earth	http://outerra.com/ THIS is amazing... and goes into the same direction... ~"I never let school interfere with my education"~ -Mark Twain

Re: amazing engine [Re: Germanunkol] #371585 05/22/11 20:10 05/22/11 20:10
Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,093 Germany T Toast Serious User
Toast Serious User T Joined: Sep 2007 Posts: 1,093 Germany	There also is "Pioneer" - a hobbyist project to recreate something like the old Frontier Elite 2. There even is a playable demo... http://pioneerspacesim.net/