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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Brasil
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![]() ![]() Description These are three different screenshots produced in realtime by Etherea1, the engine&game I'm developing in my spare time for about 1 year now. Etherea1 is a multiplayer solar system that can be explored freely by the players. My current daily work is on mobile IT programming (wireless terminals). That is a cool work anyway, but absolutely unrelated to game programming. At my house, on weekends, I do program little engines and games (and keep the imersiva.com up) just because I can't stop loving it. The engine itself is already able to handle much more than a single solar system, but I'm not applying this just yet. Lets concentrate on a single solar system for now. I am still implementing the networking functionality of the Etherea1 Engine. As said in this project's previous IOTD, I am developing both the engine and the game in C++ with OpenGL. The engine is a custom, spherical Quadtree that can split indefinitely (currently it is being split up to level 12, as can be seen in the demo). Every time a node is split, a shader generates noise for the child nodes in the GPU, another shader generates normals, and yet another shader generates the textures for those nodes. That happens in realtime and on demand. Techdemo download: http://imersiva.com/get.php?f=etherea1_eng (Windows, ~92kb) As a work in progress, there are many bugs yet, but I'm progressing as much as I can to finish this game before the end of the next month. The program is under heavy development, so updates will be frequent on this download link -- with bugfixes, adjustments and enhancements on the Techdemo. As always, forums like DevMaster.net and GameDev.net, and websites from many people who publish bits of programming info were and continue being very important and helpful to me. The background music is an old and great chiptune done by a guy called Skaven. Programming is by me, Vander "imerso" Nunes. Thanks! http://www.etereo.com.br http://www.imersiva.com Last edited by vrnunes : 04-28-2011 at 11:29 AM. |
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Brasil
Posts: 407
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![]() Well... the techdemo is updated, I found a bug that probably was causing a crash on some (many?) machines... hope it is fixed now.
Next release in some days, with a basic multiplayer.
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