Journal of Ysaneya, by Ysaneya

ASEToBin 1.0 release

Finally, the long awaited ASEToBin 1.0 has been released !

ASEToBin is a tool that is part of the I-Novae engine ( Infinity's engine ). It allows contributors and artists to export their model from 3DS Max's .ASE file format and to visualize and p...

Tip of the day: logarithmic zbuffer artifacts fix

Logarithmic zbuffer artifacts fix

In cameni's Journal of Lethargic Programmers, I've been very interested by his idea about using a logarithmic zbuffer....

Seamless filtering across faces of dynamic cube map

Tip of the day

Anybody who tried to render to a dynamic cube map probably has encountered the problem of filtering across the cube faces. Current hardware does not support filtering across different cube faces AFAIK, as it treats each cube ...

Audio engine and various updates

In this journal, no nice pictures, sorry :) But a lot to say about various "small" tasks ( depending on your definition of small. Most of them are on the weekly scale ). Including new developments on the audio engine and particle systems....

Galaxy generation
In the past weeks, I've been focusing my efforts on the server side. A lot of things are going on, especially on the cluster architecture. But one particular area of interest is the procedural galaxy generator. In this journal, I wil...

Deferred lighting and instant radiosity
In the past months, I've been wondering how to approach the problem of lighting inside hangars and on ship hulls. So far, I had only been using a single directional light: the sun. The majority of older games precompute lighting into textures ( c...

Detail textures
Many people have been worried by the lack of updates recently. No, we haven't got lazy, in fact quite the contrary :) We've been awfully busy at work.

In this journal I'm going to review some of the recent work, without going too far into details....

Some nice concept art
I don't usually post concept art, but this one, made by Dr. CM Wong ( alias Koshime ) is particularly good (click on it for high-res):

For example, I adde...

Descriptions generator
In the past weeks, I've written a story/descriptions generator for players, NPCs or even locations. Steve Breslin, our storywriter, has helped to design the system, and so will be the one to try to explain it in today's journal (in better english than...

Meta server system
Meta-server

In the past 3 weeks, I've been busy working on the meta-server. The meta-server is the server on which the client is first connecting. It handles connections to the server clusters ( shards ), patches, authentication, ...