Jul 05

The Sky is Falling

Tag: VectorStorm — trevor @ 11:58 pm

MT_SkyFallLots and lots of stuff been going on, lately.  Most notable is probably this prototype for the “taking the MMORPG offline” sequence, in which the sky breaks up into hundreds of pieces and explodes away.  The still probably doesn’t do it proper justice.

Other fun stuff includes further rendering optimisations (got VBOs fully working, got my shader-based rendering path to run just as fast as the fixed function pipeline, etc), and a fully functional 2D UI system, based around a button bar at the bottom of the screen.  However, I’m not entirely sure how I’m going to take a screenshot of that button bar just yet;  the UI slides out of view when you’re not actually using it, and my screen capture program takes mouse focus away from the program while it makes the screenshot.

I’m sure I’ll figure something out, though.  :)

4 Responses to “The Sky is Falling”

  1. Wickedgenius says:
    July 6th, 2009 at 5:15 am

    You could use the PrtScn button to screenshot the UI :P

  2. trevor says:
    July 6th, 2009 at 10:13 am

    My laptop doesn’t have a PrtScn button. ;) But yeah, I could work around that, and then crop the image manually.

  3. Wickedgenius says:
    July 8th, 2009 at 1:53 am

    You could send me the thing, I’ll get the pic for you and send you it

  4. Wickedgenius says:
    July 8th, 2009 at 1:54 am

    The picture here: http://sa.tweek.us/emots/images/rolleyes.gif
    goes with the above comment :P