Videos, more or less

After a day of frustration with an antiquated camera and crashing video software, there are two rather low quality videos here.

These will be replaced later with more details, proper split-screen, and real screenshots. I just wanted to throw something up, however small, for the curious.

Frost out.

Soon

Interface rewritten again, major bugfixes in the renderer, and several additions and tweaks. As is tradition, a low res mobile snap showing very little:


Video this weekend, optimistically.

Tweaks and Finds

Found a very thorough and interesting site on methods for presenting an oldschool road. A little late to be useful to my renderer though. Still some good thoughts in there, like faking corners, that I might bring over. My abrupt angle changes aren't very convincing.

Rewriting the bike sensor functions again after a live test as the last go overlooked some important details. I really ought to do live tests more often.

Happy 2011

Getting used to a new lifestyle/schedule and having real live free time. I've taken that opportunity to rewrite a big chunk of code and overhaul both the renderer and sensor interface. The bad news is that doesn't change much on the surface visually, but under the hood it's a lot more stable, balls-on accurate, and a bit more open to move to OpenGL some day in the future. In the meantime, for the record, writing a software renderer has been a blast - and challenging. Really the same thing.

I suppose I ought to get around to that video?



PS: It is with deep regret the DOS port has been broken through the updates :(