http://ignh.dyndns.org Project Development Site]]> en-US http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2007-01-12/hdr-compression.html Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:02:33 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2007-01-12/hdr-compression.html Shawn Kirst RGBdiv8. This allows me to render HDR scenes very quickly with little degradation in quality (Theres is some slight banding in the skybox texture, but it's hardly noticeable). It's also good for storing HDR assets (The skybox texture is stored in RGBdiv8 format using PNG images, and is stored as RGBA8 on the graphics card). This format can be linearly filtered as well, a plus over other 8-bit compression formats such as Radiance RGBE. You can also have anti-aliasing + HDR enabled on all cards that support the EXT_framebuffer_multisample extension. This method is much faster than using floating point frambebuffers, so it will play nicely with even mid-range D3D9 cards. This is the look I'll probably base my game on when I get to that point.

]]> http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2006-11-07/back-from-the-dead.html Tue, 7 Nov 2006 21:58:31 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2006-11-07/back-from-the-dead.html Shawn Kirst

• 3D sound system using OpenAL with support for WAV, Ogg Vorbis and FLAC formats.
• Scripting system based on a heavily modified Lua 5.0.3 VM with a full object oriented standard library. Almost every aspect of the engine is now scriptable.
• Particle systems with support for dual/quad core CPUs.
• New XML based shader system.
• Video playback with sound using the Ogg Theora format for video and Ogg Vorbis for audio. Videos can also be rendered directly to textures.
• x86 64-bit support.
• Various other enhancements/features.

More updates and screenshots to follow soon.
]]> http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2005-07-25/clouds-video.html Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:12:44 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2005-07-25/clouds-video.html Shawn Kirst
clouds.avi (4.2 MB) ]]> http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2005-07-22/raytraced-cloud-shading.html Fri, 22 Jul 2005 15:07:33 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2005-07-22/raytraced-cloud-shading.html Shawn Kirst I'm taking the normal 2D cloud texture, and raytracing the shading in a fragment program. To simulate multiple scattering, I'm simply blurring the result. It looks much better than the old shading IMO. All 100% GPU based. Here's a screenshot:



I put a few more in the screenshots section. More to come fore sure ]]> http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2005-06-09/new-screenshots-and-hdr-rendering.html Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:02:54 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2005-06-09/new-screenshots-and-hdr-rendering.html Shawn Kirst I wrote a window compositor for the GUI system for one. An example of that is shown here. I've also been playing around with HDR rendering. Here's a side-by-side LDR vs. HDR comparisson:

vs.

The difference is pretty amazing i think ]]> http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2005-02-21/hover-tank-model.html Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:44:51 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2005-02-21/hover-tank-model.html Shawn Kirst Noel Cower has donated a model of a "hover tank" to the project. I've added some screenshots of it, as well as 2 videos of it spinning around and looking shiny and cool The shader shows a "metalic paint" effect. A texture for the tank is under way by the same artist. It's gonna be fun driving this shiny bastard all over the terrain. Time to get coding!

Videos:
tank.avi (4.9 MB)
tank2.avi (5.0 MB) ]]> http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2004-11-19/hdr-water.html Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:40:56 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2004-11-19/hdr-water.html Shawn Kirst
Videos:
hdrwater.avi (6.4 MB)
hdrwater2.avi (5.2 MB)
]]> http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2004-11-03/ignh-videos.html Wed, 3 Nov 2004 00:51:11 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2004-11-03/ignh-videos.html Shawn Kirst
Videos:
water.avi (2.3 MB)
water2.avi (7.3 MB) ]]> http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2004-09-09/check-out-the-new-duds.html Thu, 9 Sep 2004 16:15:02 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2004-09-09/check-out-the-new-duds.html Shawn Kirst http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2003-07-09/ignh-status.html Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:23:42 EDT http://ignh.dyndns.org/news/2003-07-09/ignh-status.html Shawn Kirst Bioscythe project page I will be working on the rendering code, as well as all the low-level geeky stuff. The good news is, the IGNH project isn't totally dead. I'm in the process of redesigning and rewriting the game engine. When I'll finish, only the gods know. BUT I WILL FINISH IT! I'm concentrating strictly on the engine's design and architecture. When I am satisfied 100% with it, then and only then will a game be designed and written. That's all for now. ]]>