Category Archives: Engine Development

Successful Testing

The new windowed/borderless option I added to the game is working great for fullscreen! All of the performance is back now. I’ve been able to tune and fix a bug with the multithreading support that I recently added. Things like … Continue reading

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Client-Server Avatar Movement Updates

I’ve never really been totally happy with how my avatar movements are handled by the client and the server. For one thing, dealing with the inevitable network lag stinks. I’m trying to make the server and the client perform the … Continue reading

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Direct3D 11 Refactor

Just about have the new Orion Engine D3D11 driver module finished. Testing should begin soon. I still want to emulate some of the legacy Fixed-Function Pipeline using shaders. I think the generic lighting routines are still useful. Also, FFP processing … Continue reading

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Been There Game Update

I’m still learning Direct3D 11, It’s quite a bit different than the DirectX 9 API. Anyway, I do hope to have the new video driver working soon. I’ve been busy with other things lately, but I am finally ready to … Continue reading

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DirectX 11 Support

Finally decided it was time to update the Direct3D video driver currently used by Orion Engine. It seems DirectX9 support in Windows 10 is taking a back seat. Apps no longer run exclusively in full-screen mode, they are now just … Continue reading

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Render Thread

While working on cleaning up the avatar movement messages, I decided to move the rendering and scene updates to their own threads. This certainly smooths things out quite a lot! For one thing, input device updates don’t get starved whenever … Continue reading

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Large Mesh Files

I decided to re-write the mesh load and save routines used by the engine. They were previously using a recursive algorithm, which quickly caused the stack to fill up on larger models with deep hierarchies. Running into a stack overflow … Continue reading

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Collision and Response

I’ve been hard at work implementing new intersection tests, and dealing with collision and response algorithms. Pretty tough stuff to make work correctly and smoothly under all circumstances! I’m basically breaking up an area into distinct height levels, then doing … Continue reading

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Animation Controller Scaling

Turns out I wasn’t extracting scaling properly in my 3ds Max exporter plug-in. For one thing, if the local transformation included any scaling, it could cause NAN problems to arise while converting the matrix rotations into quaternions for the keyframed … Continue reading

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Networking Code

I finally feel the game’s network code is very stable. I found a pretty major bug on Christmas day that would cause file downloads to randomly stall. It had been nagging me for a while. Of course, this severely hurt … Continue reading

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