Storm Engine 2 finally got IndieDb entry

[motorsep]

I decided to put some info up about the engine and IndieDb seemed like a good place to do that

 

Check it out: http://www.indiedb.com/engines/storm-engine-2-working-title

[bedhead]

Great work, cant wait for it to come out.

[motorsep]

Thanks

[Lux]

Congrats!

Edited December 15, 2014 by Lux

[Bikerdude]

Very nice work mister.

[STiFU]

Typo: "A first game being developed with Storm Engine 2 is titles Phaeton"

[SteveL]

Nice work, looking forward to seeing it action.

 

Are your particles gpu skinned too? Attempting that is next on my to-do list.

[motorsep]

Typo: "A first game being developed with Storm Engine 2 is titles Phaeton"

 

Thanks, fixed it

[motorsep]

Nice work, looking forward to seeing it action.

 

Are your particles gpu skinned too? Attempting that is next on my to-do list.

 

Thanks!

 

No, no GPU particles. It's not trivial to move particles to GPU, and for the amount of particles we use it doesn't make much sense to move them to GPU yet. I would make more sense to optimized particles, if there is a room for it, on CPU.

 

Demo recording/playback fix, some reload* cvars fixes, dmap writing inlined LOD surfaces into proc file as separate surfaces, and fixing/enhancing tools (since they compile fine with MSVC2013 Community Edition, Qt5 port isn't gonna happen until there is a massive demand in tools for Linux modders) are the next big targets.

 

Moving r_show* rendering from old rendering code to the new shader based one is one long term goal. Faster shadow mapping, having translucent surfaces casting shadows and real-time GI are another long term goals.

 

That is what our renderer road map looks like so far (excluding some mostly purely shader based features).

[lowenz]

Awesome work! IODoom 3 beaten

Edited December 18, 2014 by lowenz

[motorsep]

Heh, that's nice to know, lowenz Thanks.

 

Btw, we fixed reloadGUIs and reloadImages today. Shadowmaps breaks no longer, and GUI iteration is a breeze on the game side now. Just need to fix reloading of images/materials in the editor and it will be all set.

 

EDIT: Here is the video of this goodness:

 

Edited December 19, 2014 by motorsep

[Lux]

Video titled, "ss2 Dev stream 12"... ss2? Don't tease us.

[motorsep]

Video titled, "ss2 Dev stream 12"... ss2? Don't tease us.

 

SS2 stands for Steel Storm 2, which was the working title of Phaeton - a game I am working on :-)