You are both right and man, the_clown, I feel your pain.
Visual Studio is an awesome IDE and lightyears ahead of Xcode which is lightyears ahead of code::blocks. MSVC is a piece of garbage and I've written way too many ifdefs and dirty hacks to work around compiler and STL bugs.

And I'm not even happy with GCC either (regexes, anyone?). 4.9 is getting somewhere with C++11 support, but Clang beats it completely. If I could, I would force LLVM/Clang down your throats and switch to C++1y.
Oh well, you work with the tools you got, not the ones you wish you had.

Edit: If anyone wants to know the current state of things in terms of implementation completeness of C++11 compiler features: http://www.italiancpp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/CppISO-Feb2014-r1.pdf

Today I refactored our particles, so here are shadows!

please make it not look so unity-like. Not saying it looks that way right now but it's heading in that direction.

There are only so many ways you can make a functional editor UI.
But it's not going to be Unity, I promise!

I know right, assign different shortcuts to every key and every key combination on the keyboard and make them change depending on where the mouse is!

Looks really professional I think.
There's nothing bad with looking like the Unity editor, which is the best part of Unity imho.

There is a new weekly devblog!
http://rayne3d.com/blog/03-19-2014-devblog--6---editor--bugs-and-other-things

Also I made a video showing Downpour in action:

Wow. Really impressive!
The workflow can be improved a lot, but i assume you know that better than me.
Decals and Shadowmapping is really good, looks awesome in Motion.

But why does the framerate drop on fullscreen mode? Capturing problem?

I recorded the video on my retina mac book with a resolution of 2880*1600 (the window, the screen is slightly bigger) and while I setup Downpour to render the 3D viewport with a lower resolution, switching back to the game will render at full resolution and it absolutely kills my performance with SSAO and all the other post processing effects. Also the screen capturing does not help

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