Tag Archives: been there game

Game Status

Posted on February 18, 2023 by Eric DeBrosse

Wow, is it February already? Finally able to get busy with the game again. Just wanted to leave a post letting people know that I’m still alive and kicking!

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Client-Server Avatar Movement Updates

Posted on December 9, 2022 by Eric DeBrosse

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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Been There Game Update

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Eric DeBrosse

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

Posted on September 2, 2021 by Eric DeBrosse

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

Posted on July 13, 2021 by Eric DeBrosse

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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Avatar Movement Messages

Posted on June 20, 2021 by admin

I’ve been re-writing the game’s avatar movement code in the client and the server. I want to smooth things out once and for all! It’s finally time to retire the test code that has currently been in place for years. … Continue reading →

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Enemy NPC Avatars

Posted on May 5, 2021 by Eric DeBrosse

Finally! Everything is coming together in the game to the point where I can finally work on the combat system. Now that the code for the friendly NPCs is progressing well, I’m starting to work out all of the details … Continue reading →

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NPC Avatars

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Eric DeBrosse

Finally got around to adding some NPCs into the game. Currently you can chat with them. Soon, they will be used to start quests, and to provide rewards, etc. It’s very cool that I have this working, since enemies will … Continue reading →

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Large Mesh Files

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Eric DeBrosse

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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Animation Controller Scaling

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Eric DeBrosse

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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