February 2006

Posted on February 22, 2006 by Doolwind

Now Open: Closed Alpha Test

Things are continuing along steadily towards the tech demo release. I decided to put together a closed alpha test mailing list for anyone interested in getting a sneak peek at CIC. The test will mainly be for hardware compatibility and network testing. I’m upgrading the AI to accomodate the added gameplay features however it will Read More

  • Category: CIC
Posted on February 8, 2006 by Doolwind

Glossy Smoke Damage

After adding environment mapping I decided I was on a roll and would add ‘gloss mapping’ to my models. The alpha values within the normal map now specify how glossy or reflective that part of the model is. The more reflective a pixel the more of the environment will be reflected from it. In the Read More

  • Category: CIC
Posted on February 7, 2006 by Doolwind

Environmental Change

On a whim last night I decided I wanted to add environment maps to my spaceships. This may be due to the fact I saw Ysaneya’s new model or that I can never say no to implementing some new graphical feature. What started out as being a small job turned into a mammoth exercise as Read More

  • Category: CIC
Posted on February 1, 2006 by Doolwind

The move

I’ve decided to move my blog from it’s current residence here to my own website. There are a number of reasons for this, mainly blogspots lack of a proper rss feed and the fact I’m hardly using any of my terrabyte of traffic per month.