Tech Feature: Sunlight With Shadows
Now I am pretty much done with the first major feature for HPl3, the engine that will power our upcoming (and so far super secret) game. Thi...
rendering
Tech Feature: Pre-Pass Lighting
Progress on the new engine, HPL3, is coming along nicely and recently I changed the core rendering system into something called Pre-pass lig...
Pre-Pass Lighting Redux
Introduction After writing the previous post on pre-pass lighting I started doing some tests, to see how it compares to the old deferred re...
Tech Feature: Terrain Geometry
Introduction The past two weeks I have been working on terrain, and for two months or so before that I have (at irregular intervals) been re...
Tech Feature: Noise And Fractals
Introduction Now that I have a working algorithm for terrain rendering, I wanted to try making some of it procedurally. This would not be us...
Tech Feature: Terrain Textures
I have finally finished the part of the terrain rendering that I spent most time researching and thinking about: texturing. This is a quite ...
Bye, Bye Pre-Pass Lighting
I have an announcement to make. I am dumping pre-pass lighting. A couple of weeks ago I started to remaking the renderer from a deferred sha...
Tech Feature: Light Masking
So just wanted to give a quick isu on a merk new feature: light box masks. When placing lights in some rooms, it is common that light bleeds...
Tech Feature: Undergrowth
Introduction After a little break with updates on the rendering system , holidays and super secret stuff, I could finally get back to terrai...
Physics And Heightmaps
here ), instead of megatextures or similar. With the auto-generation of physics, it is much easier to create and update the terrain, somethi...
