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Outerra Anteworld Alpha Demo released

Outerra Anteworld Alpha Demo released

[color=#0088FF]Outerra Tech Demo[/color]Finally here comes the Outerra tech demo, coming together with the alpha release of our game Anteworld.Recent...

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Book: 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes

Book: 3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes

3D Engine Design for Virtual Globes is a book by Patrick Cozzi and Kevin Ring describing the essential techniques and algorithms used for the design...

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Podcast about Outerra

Podcast about Outerra

I've never been much of a speaker, not in my native language and even less so in English. When Markus Volter, the man behind SE Radio and omega tau...

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A new terrain mapper&compression tool

A new terrain mapper&compression tool

Our old terrain mapping and compression tool has been recently replaced by a new one, developed from scratch. The old tool has been the only piece...

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Ocean Rendering

Ocean Rendering

Rendering of water in Outerra.There are two types of waves mixed - open sea waves with the direction of wind (fixed for now), and shore waves (the...

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Underwater scenes

Underwater scenes

Here are some further outputs from unfinished work on water, this time from the underwater environment.A sunken ISS space station And a short video...

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2010 Retrospective

2010 Retrospective

Our friend from Texas, artist and science-fiction writer born under nickname of C. Shawn Smith, made this nice compilation from pieces of our...

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Himalayas Trip

Himalayas Trip

Finally here comes the video we promised some time ago, with Lukla airport and more.The video is quite long, over 13 minutes and that's after some...

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Earth Fly-by

Earth Fly-by

A video of Earth fly-by, with head-up display showing altitude, ground distance, speed, heading and current latitude/longitude.">

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Cessna in Mountains

Cessna in Mountains

A short video of Cessna flying high over mountains. Angrypig took it somewhere in Lesser Himalayas, mixed in some music, and here's the result.">

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Dirt Roads

Dirt Roads

In the previous post about roads in Outerra I mentioned that different road types can be created by using road profiles. Here comes one example.Dirt...

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Integrating Vector Data - Roads

Integrating Vector Data - Roads

You may remember an earlier blog about roads where the approach and algorithms for creating spline based roads were outlined. At that time it was...

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Tatra T813 Video

Tatra T813 Video

Previous video with Cessna test flight apparently made some good (for most) waves in the flight sim scene. Here comes another video, this time with...

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Cessna Test Flight

Cessna Test Flight

Angrypig finally managed to implement collision detection for JSBSim planes along with the joystick support, so we created a short test flight video...

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Outerra Engine Progress

Outerra Engine Progress

It's been some time since I blogged about the Outerra engine, so here comes the latest info about what we've been doing.Lots of stuff has been done...

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Floating point depth buffers

Floating point depth buffers

I had always thought that using a floating point depth buffer on modern hardware would solve all the depth buffer problems, in a similar way than the...

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Early vehicle physics test

Early vehicle physics test

First test of vehicle physics in the engine. Camera isn't yet attached to the vehicle so I had to chase it, without much success I admit [smile]Also...

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