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Tag Archives: orion engine
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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Tagged been there game, mind blown games, orion engine, orion engine sdk
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Performance Issue Fix
I’ve been playing a lot of games lately and noticed a new feature that I’ve never really noticed before. An option called “Windowed Borderless” mode. Since exclusive full-screen access was broken in my game by a recent Microsoft patch, this … Continue reading
Posted in Game Development, Hardware
Tagged been there game, D3D11, D3D9, direct3d, directx, mind blown games, orion engine
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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
Posted in Engine Development, Game Development
Tagged avatar, been there game, D3D, direct3d, FFP, fixed-function pipeline, mind blown games, orion engine, orion engine sdk
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Game Server Avatar Updates
The game server finally properly handles avatar update messages. Basically, all avatars are grouped into small areas. These areas align with the land block grid system used by the terrain renderer. As a player moves in and out of a … Continue reading
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Tagged been there game, mind blown games, orion engine
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Avatar Trade Window
Currently working on the “Trade Window” in my Been There Game client. This will be used to safely trade items between two avatars, or a vendor NPC. To open it, you simply double-click another player’s avatar. If the other avatar … Continue reading
Terrain Scene Management
The new terrain scene management features are working great! I’ve invested a lot of time and hard work to make this happen. I can now finally knock this huge milestone off the list. The custom client and server architecture is … Continue reading
Posted in Engine Development, Game Development, Graphics
Tagged been there, game engine, orion engine, scene manager, TERRAIN GRID
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year from Mind Blown Games! I look forward to starting a fresh new year working on Been There Game. I expect good things to come soon!
What’s Been Going On?
Getting close to finishing up the network driver code for the servers. I’m finding that I want to re-factor a few network related things in the Orion Engine SDK. I’m finally getting close to a new public test of the … Continue reading
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Tagged been there game, cryptography, orion engine
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Client Networking
I finally figured out what was causing problems with my network code! Man, that makes me feel good. Wow, I’ve been tracking this issue down for months! The client networking in the game is working pretty efficiently right about now. … Continue reading
Posted in Engine Development, Game Development
Tagged been there game, driver, ip, IPv4, network, orion engine, socket, tcp
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Team Foundation Server 2018
Well, I finally upgraded our source control to Team Foundation Server 2018. Not sure when, or if, I’ll upgrade to Azure DevOps Server 2019. This is a good next step at least, and it’s working pretty nicely. The memory in … Continue reading
Posted in Hardware, Web Site Updates
Tagged azure, been there game, orion engine, team foundation server
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