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Const Port v1.3

It's time for another release of Const Port! Version 1.3 adds some cool new features and fixes a host of small bugs. As before you can download the compiled x64 Windows version:

or download the source code from the BitBucket Repository and compile it yourself:

Screenshots:

Changelog:

  • The way the buffer is sized and worked with has been completely revamped to allow dynamically sized lines. This allows us to do a lot of cool things. The first of which is Time Elapsed Banners
  • Added Time Elapsed Banners which will automatically show up after 15s or more have passed between lines. The minimum time is configurable in the code but cannot be configured after build in this version. Configuration options are coming soon.
  • Horizontal scrolling has been added. You can use the arrow keys left and right or Shift+Scroll Wheel. There is no horizontal scrollbar in this version
  • Added a Clear button in the upper right hand corner that does the same thing as Ctrl+Shift+C
  • Added an End of Buffer button below the scrollbar
  • Status messages in the bottom bar can now be delivered from anywhere in the program
  • Tx and Rx indicators have been added in the upper right corner allowing you to easily see when data is sent or received
  • Save to File button now appears when text is selected. Currently the output file is fixed in the program's directory with a timestamp appended on the end. Ctrl+S does the same thing as pressing the button
  • Line marks are displayed slightly different. Thick line marks make the line spacing between lines a little larger to make the break a little more clear
  • Escape key now closes the COM menu. Enter key hits the Connect button.
  • Added support for COM13-COM24.
  • Added a single frame flip right after the window is created to allow for a blank window to show even if the application DLL isn't loaded or rendered correctly. Also allows for the window to show sooner
  • Fixed a problem with empty lines being left with a timestamp of 0

Voxel Engine Demo 4: Dynamic/Updating Objects and Special Collision Shapes

I've started doing the work to add voxels that can allocate and store information for themselves. I've also added support for voxels that have different sorts of collision geometry. Right now we only support Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes for collision.

I've started doing the work to add voxels that can allocate and store information for themselves. I've also added support for voxels that have different sorts of collision geometry. Right now we only support Axis-Aligned Bounding Boxes for collision. You can also define custom geometry for each voxel that can be either static and placed in chunk buffer, or dynamic and get generated every frame. The lighting still works like before but the new blocks and shapes have not been implemented correctly. There are also still some bugs and weird behavior with the collision system.

2016 Gallery 7: DirectX Initial Tests

Copied some code for making a sphere and converted it to C for DirectX. The colors are simply set by the (x,y,z) coordinates of each vertex

Enabled default lighting in DirectX and generated random colors for the sphere. Also added a cube

Had a spot of trouble when trying to pass texture information to DirectX

Eventually got the texture problem fixed.

Changed the background color, tested drawing a single vertex buffer with different transform matrices, and got the 2D rendering working on top of the 3D world.

Trying to get stb_truetype.h to render text for me. Had a problem with DirectX wanting square textures

Fixed it by simply rendering all the characters into a packed texture. (Well to be fair, I didn't do the packing, the stb library did. Thanks Sean Barrett!!)

The emerald texture for Sphax PureBDCraft texture pack had a nice color to it

Adding a skybox makes everything look so nice!

Tried generating a heightmap from a bitmap. Grass texture was made by me, looks pretty terrible.

Loading in .obj files. .mtl file loading isn't working yet.

Got the texures working for obj model. Also made a simple function to print strings on the screen using the font pack made earlier. (stb_truetype is awesome, you should go check it out: https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_truetype.h)

Loaded a model ripped from Super Mario 64. Good ol' Whomp's Fortress.

All of the matrix math in the engine was done by me so there are still some bugs to be worked out. For some reason when I changed the near and far distance it messed up my FOV

Stress testing a dynamic buffer in DirectX.