Just thought I'd let you know that I've just put a downloadable version of the Angler Fish demo on the project's page. I have been working hard trying to optimise it these last few days and have managed to get a 40% increase in the framerate so far. While profiling the engine I've noticed that the SwapBuffers command seems to be taking about 25% of the processing time but have no clue as to why this is....anyone have any ideas? Currently the engine seems to be CPU bound and if I could "fix" that issue (if it actually is one) I reckon I'd see a nice and healthy increase in the framerate. In any case I'll keep on trying to squeeze a few extra frames per second out of the engine :D

On another note, I've just started to work on a 3D remake of Tetris with a bunch of nice little shader effects to make it a bit more flashy. I'll put some preliminary screenshots up on the site in the next few days, but cause I've just started it don't expect the whole thing just yet. Still got loads of work to do...

Anyways, have fun with the demo,

Michael

Its been a bit of a while since I last wrote something here and a lot has happened since then. I unfortunately left Morzine at the end of April, however it wasn't all bad as the weather was really warm and all the snow had pretty much melted...the last few days of snowboarding were almost like water skiing or wake boarding. Which actually reminds me that I actually did go over water once! They set up a water slide thing in Les Croset on the last day that they were open and we just happened to come across it. After a lot of comtemplation about getting wet and having to board home soaked, I decided to give it a shot. As you guessed it, I didn't manage to completely clear it on my first attempt and got absolutely drenched! Seeing as my fear of getting wet was over I went about and did it another two times clearing it both times. The first two times were filmed and can be seen at the links below:

First (failed) attempt
Second attempt

After Morzine I came home to Germany, were I've been since doing all sorts of things. I have had a fair amount of time to work on my engine and have created a small graphics demo which can be found here: Angler Fish.
Pretty neat huh? I'm really pleased with the outcome actually and its nice to be able to see the results of the work I put into it.

I have made a lot of updates to the content in the last few days, and after having used the site for a bit I have noticed a fair few things that I would like to change to make it easier to use. I've kinda realised that I have made it into one of those generic blog sites that I dreaded making it into at first, so am definetely going to need to change that. Some of the other changes include creating... more