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Ah, this one is a story the lua maintainers wouldn't tell you... I kid, I kid. This is partially my fault, because I'm used to writing code in the Lua style (e.g. setmetatable), with a dash of snake_case mixed in. It seems the original Lua authors (robn and a few others) were a fan of PascalCase, so...

Dual Licensing is possible, with caveats: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/331846/dual-license-with-gpl-and-a-closed-source-license https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-licensing I think the problem might arise where it goes into Pioneer, one of us adds too it (GPL), then you'...

Clustered forward is cool, you might need to be aware that we do some crazy things with scale and position for planets/stars because we don't have an infinite z-depth ( despite using logarithmic z-buffer ) which can be seen here and here that mgiht affect using z-partitioning schemes. Sounds cool Y...

Does "no shadows" mean the eclipse in Hades system will be broken? I think, in a space game like pioneer, shadows (from planets, moons, space stations, ships), is more noticeable/important than ship textures & decals, which you only see in rare occasions, like when you buy your ship, ...

After doing a significant amount of evaluation and reading, I think I'm ready to lay down some specifics on the planned rendering rewrite. I've identified the new workflow, figured out how to implement it, and I think I've got a fairly good grip on how I want to implement the higher-level C++ API fo...

I came across this really interesting project the other day regarding renderer architecture, https://github.com/azhirnov/FrameGraph/ , as well as this presentation on Frostbite's rendering . The way our current rendering architecture works is kind of a pain, as the code responsible for actually rend...

I've got a really nice, completely incomprehensible post on better terrain texturing that we really should use if it's as cheap as I think it is: http://johnwhigham.blogspot.com/2015/03/derivative-mapping.html describes using a derivative map for better procedural surface normal variation on planets...

Additionally, here's an implementation resource on VSM (variance shadow maps), an alternative to PCF soft-shadowing. https://www.fabiensanglard.net/shadowmappingVSM/

These have likely been posted before, but here's a really useful resource about better tree rendering which we'll definitely want to implement or crib from when we do planetary foliage: http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/publikationen/Luft2006ExpressiveIlluminationFoliage/Luft2006ExpressiveIllumination...

I'm posting another set of mockups, this time for the InfoView. We're looking at moving the InfoView away from a full-screen View and splitting it into several dockable windows, displayed in the main Game View, either free-floating or in one of several re-sizable docks.


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