Most recent snapshop/showoff image:
http://i.imgur.com/idnL2l8.jpgf
^ Water w/ some nice optical effects (fresnel, reflection, refraction, ripples, etc.) ^
Sorry for the choppy FPS, I’m running the game and recording it on an i3 processor, usually I’ll run around 300+ FPS ;D
Original first image:
https://s22.postimg.org/jo0mj91dd/snapshot.png
Image above only takes around 100 lines of code to do using library (between loading files, rendering, collision, etc. this isn’t bad at all!)
I have a few threads that give insight to how my progress has been with creating this library so far, but I’ve recently done a ton of work to it. Now that I’m finally able to see progress visually I figure this is as good a time as any to make a WIP thread showcasing my project!
What it is:
I’ve been doing game development for a while now, and I’ve almost consistently used LWJGL to write my games from scratch while reusing some code here and there. This gets pretty tiresome after a while, so a while back I decided that instead of designing a game I should design a library that will make it easier for me to create games in the future. This library has utilities for both 2D and 3D games and permits the use of both utilities at the same time (E.g. if you want a GUI in a 3D game).
Currently the library is sporting these flexible utilities / features:
- Component-Based Architecture
- Window Creation/Management System
- FPS, Timing, etc. Management
- Numerous Math/Vector Utilities
- User Input Functionality (Keyboard/Mouse Utilities)
- File Loading, Reading, and Writing Utilities
- Loading/Parsing/Rendering of blender .OBJ Models
- Loading/Rendering Heightmaps
- Multi-texturing
- Texture Atlases
- Collision Detection between .OBJ Models and Heightmaps
- Console/Command System
- Font/Text-Rendering System
- Shaders System
I’m currently working on adding functionality to the library that would make it easy for the user to add unique graphics like water (you can see I just started working on this in the image above).
Here’s a list of features I am working on currently, or will start soon: (will be updated as I go)
Water
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[li]Reflection (Complete)
- Refraction (Nearly Complete)
- Ripples
- Waves
- Depth level of visibility
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- Lighting System (ambient, directional, shadows, etc)
- Bump Maps
- Displacement Maps
- Particle System
- ??? ~ Not sure yet, baby steps. Can only plan so far ahead.
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