Just like my mom's

Quite a long time since the last post (again), but you'll see, it's worth it (kind of). Many things ahve been accomplished since then. Mainly, the terrain part is fully done. After working on the skybox and more responsive controls, I decided to go a little more "graphics" and start on shaders. The first shader I did (and that I'm actuallay proud of) wasn't easy to build. It's a nice water effect, just like those you see in recent games (well, not that good). It has reflection using a cubemap and some ripple perturbation added to it. Wave height and speed are customizable, as well as water color and transparency. I had great help from the Gamedev community (http://www.gamedev.net). The final result is a combination of many of their ideas and of my own conlcusions. Take a look !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgheU4_hcgQ

Now, back to work !

Something like progress...

The project has been pretty much inactive lately, but hey, that's not my fault. You know the deal : job, school, friends; there's no time left for my sweet AGE. But I've done something that might help the project progression. It's a schematic outline of the "basics" of the engine. There's a nice color system so it's easy to find where I'm at. Well, to make things short, I hope this will give me the kick in the butt I need to continue my work.

Some really early screens

Those are screenshots I've took like 6 months ago. I'm not ready to take any other for now so I've put those ones to tease you. Well, that's not much but it basically shows some heightmap terrain, model integration and particle effects. Oh, and the config screen too. As I said, those screens are quite old and I've progressed alot since that. So, be patient and soon you'll see real screens and probably videos (and if you are really nice a tech demo !).