I'm working on my new game "Cats VS. Aliens - War in space".
I opened a new thread in the projects folder!

some little progress:

Deferred Lighting with Gamestudio
atm no shadowmapping or normal mapping, but basically it works

As I could not work on my sidescroller on vacation, I've worked on two other things:
1) Screenspace reflections, that means no additional rendering (except a depth view) is involved. They can be attached to arbitrary surfaces but have many limitations (only what is on screen can be reflected and so on) and, as a work in progress, there are still many bugs.


(a screenshot from my laptop, runs at 1024fps on my desktop)

2) A pretty fast 2D collision system that supports boxes, spheres and convex polygons with GLIDE support for my future sidescrollers:

Video



The idea for the polygon-polygon collisions is based on this article.

@Superku :
there is already BOX2D and other free solutions for 2D collision
Perhaps you needed specific features, or had pleasure creating your own system simply ?

Yes, right, I forgot about Box2D. Nevertheless, I like to code most things myself as you have already guessed (including a quadtree-like structure for my movement functions and my own function scheduler, so there is no wait involved).

Further progress in the deferred lighting solution:
flashlights, lightflares, saturation of the image and light scaling



#EDIT: Now with Flashlight Model:

Problem with those physics solutions is that you have to hack them down to get standard collision/movement behavior working. I actually implemented a collision system based on the very same article Superku posted. This works good usually but also has it's drawbacks f.i. two projectiles with crossing trajectories (ger.: Flugbahnen) in a single frame will always collide if your implementation doesn't consider that case.

Video please!