Codrer Industries

Yep, this is the real world. For sure this will be Intel Graphics friendly.

There's still a bunch of small artefacts but I'll fix this later...

• Smoothered normales OK
• Terrain optimization OK
• Level of detail system OK

No further changes on my code today, only a lot of work and tuning on the ground textures... they do the job!

To be honest, at first I didn't know what style of landscape I would get this way. And that's actually better that what I was targeting. Pleasantly surprised.

Anyways, at this point, basic playground is set. Time to focus on gameplay...

One full month has passed, without enough time to work on this project. For this new session I guess it's time to get the final name of this game:

Ladies & gentlemen, welcome to HORIZON KEEPERS!

First draft for the logo. This name itself should sound obvious. I hope...

Not enough free time. More than three weeks have passed again...

Anyway: I've got a name, a playground, now I need a game. That's basically the plan. And the very first step for a MMO shoot'em'up is to get some targets to shoot at. This 8x8x8 dots will do the job.

Lot of work on hierarchy. Stage of groups of clusters made of dots.

I've got a 8x8x8 dots cube. My ship can hold 128 bullets moving to this target. That's already 8^3 x 128 = 65,536 possibilities for collision detection.

Let's imagine 8 cubes/enemies and, let's say 64 players. Thats 8 x 8^3 x 128 x 64 = 33,554,432… per frame.

Multiply by 60 FPS we reach 2,013,265,920 raw collision detections per second in this basic case. Out of curiosity I've benchmarked a "raw collision test" without further optimization... my CPU drop instantly to 2 FPS. I would have predicted worse...

That's still utterly unusable. Hence next step is to take a little time to build and optimize a more clever collision routine.

Still need some work but my optimized collision detection works now fine. Full 60 FPS.

I'm using a three passes routine: basic bounding box exclusion for groups ; octree boxes for shoots ; then classic distance check for probable bullet collisions.

• Particles animation
• Mouse control
• Minimal HUD