The Space Jump effect is pretty simple when looking at its individual components.

Previously I created a 3D star field for the environmental rendering.

I use the 3D locations of these stars in the effect.

When the effect starts, I start cranking up the light emitted for each star.

This is done by just …

Welcome to the first installment of my Coding series of articles where I break down step by step how to achieve certain effects or mechanics in video games. The first of which I'll cover is a simple one but with big impact: slow motion. The code examples used are language agnostic (or pseudo-code),…

Time dilation allows me to speed up or slow down the passage of time.  The way this is implemented is rather simple.  The frame's global delta time is multiplied by a time dilation factor. As I prepared my space ship models for collision, I needed a way to test if it was working. Unfortun…