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DevLog #13 - Engine: Viewport & Camera

DevLog #13 - Engine: Viewport & Camera

Before displaying a scene, the viewport and projection transformations are needed. The engine have to allow multiple viewports (for splitscreen or...

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DevLog #12 - Engine engineering 2

DevLog #12 - Engine engineering 2

The keyboard listener is complete, now with fixed and improved mask for special keys ( Ctrl, Alt, Shift ) to be a bit more flexible. The left Alt was...

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DevLog #11 - Engine engineering

DevLog #11 - Engine engineering

Last several days I've spent by separating engine from game by creating engine API.Code for window handling and keyboard listening are nearly...

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DevLog #10 - OpenGL fog

DevLog #10 - OpenGL fog

OpenGL provides 3 fog types - GL_LINEAR, GL_EXP and GL_EXP2.Some time ago I've found an image showing the characteristics of these modes which helped...

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DevLog #9 - Blended objects sorting

DevLog #9 - Blended objects sorting

Finally done. The blended objects are rendered in proper order. Or at least in most cases they are.I think that everywhere where is a word about...

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DevLog #6 - The Milky-Way

DevLog #6 - The Milky-Way

It has been a long time since last update. Personal life stepped in and the development was freezed for a while as I had no taste for anything....

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DevLog #5 - Stars make-up

DevLog #5 - Stars make-up

I got a bit bored with all the tiny dots covering approximately same area on screen with no real comparable differences in sizes and so I played a...

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DevLog #4 - Stars and systems

DevLog #4 - Stars and systems

This log is comming later than I expected, so without any further delays lets have a look on what happened since DevLog #3.A lot of the time has been...

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DevLog #3 - Weekend in sign of troubles

DevLog #3 - Weekend in sign of troubles

The weekend is over. Code has went to Bitbucket repositories, initial encounter with TortoiseHg was relativelly successfull and optimization of...

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Distances and stars visibility

Distances and stars visibility

Several days have passed and StarDust moved thousands of light years away from the Solar System for now. The eliptical orbits of planets were done,...

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Different space simulator

Different space simulator

Welcome to the dev log of StarDust. This project lied in my head for quite a time, but I never had time I could dedicate to it. Until relatively...

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