3D graphics design and programming

Android

Hwinfo android app almost done!

ago

My new android app is almost finished. It uses a little server for windows to get sensor information from your desktop computer to send it to a client android device. It’s still a bit rough at some edges, but it should be done soon! Here is how it looks like:

3D QT Engine

Wireframe and Vertex modes back

ago

Added the wireframe and vertex modes back to the render pipeline. Also went back to 13 pixel lookups in the NFAA shader but with additional improvements i had with 8 lookups. The reason i went back was because 8 pixel lookups ignored some conditions… Here’s a screen of the render/debug modes: I will introduce 2 additional modes to output the geometry of lights and octrees.

3D QT Engine

Engine progress

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[gallery link="file" columns="2" ids="675,673,672,670"]   During some days i worked over 8 hours on features or bug fixes, but i think it was worth it. A lot of changes happened to my little engine in the past few weeks so let's sum up a few of them ...   (more…)

Android

Additional Project

ago

Not long ago my laptop's GPU died and i was forced to take a break on my Engine project... The reason was the OpenGL version which i targeted. The Nvidia chip was capable of running the project, but the engine aims for OpenGL 4.0 or higher and my laptop's HD4000 can only run with OpenGL 3.3. This made be choose between two options,

  • bring the OpenGL version down to 3.3
  • get a new machine
"Downgrade" to 3.3 would mean, rewrite the shaders, change the rendering procedures and so on... so i bought a desktop machine with a bit more power. (more…)