Archipelago

List above updated... very good progress over the last few weeks.
Got loads of little things done, unfortunately a lot of them too small/unplanned to show on the list... :-/

Surface vehicle autopilot basically done & working nicely, just need some code to avoid island structures intelligently.

Was also thinking of making the supply drone a...

More stuffage being done:

- Shaders simplified and unified to use global lighting properly.

- Lots more scripting and debug stuff - I can now execute Lua commands, show results and query data in a console-like debug interface. Had some fun trying to intercept stdout where Lua outputs its stuff, but in the end I just redefined the Lua print function to...

In full shader-vision



Amazing how a nice shader covers up the rather basic skin ;) Unfortunately the carrier is using the same shader so it's a bit bright on the later pics.
Just need some nice shadows now...

Vista annoyance number 52 in a series of 500:
Carrier2 app hangs with a black screen roughly 50% of the time it's run. Having an explorer window open seems to help (wtf?!)
Single-stepping in the debugger always runs fine, so can't narrow the problem down that way.
It's probably something Microshaft put in to hinder OpenGL app dev.

This pathetic excuse for...

Integrated the rather nice DevIL image loading lib today - I was using some of my old code to load bmps and now I'm starting to need extra stuff like alpha layers (i.e. tga loading)
Speaking of which I made a per-pixel lighting shader for the vehicles and structures too, looks quite a bit nicer than the fixed pipe per-vertex stuff.
The alpha loading gained...

Nope, not an April fool... I have actually done something! ;)

Ok, Surface vehicle basic waypoints mostly working again. Walrus now seems to skid like mad on land for some reason now - still investigating... probably that damping issue again
Hacked in manual Walrus docking too for now - just drive up the Carrier rear entry and you'll get docked...

Some models that are currently in progress... nothing to set the modeling world alight just yet ;) Something suitably industrial and semi-futuristic to give the resource islands some character. Somewhat inspired by my daily commute past the Weston Point refinery complex.

Modified the model import stuff (now I've got more to grips with the Collada format) to apply the modelled transform for each object exported from Blender. Was having to 'apply transform' to each object in Blender before export and ended up with intermediate files and other bad stuff. Should be faster and more flexible getting stuff from Blender into the...