My Adventures in Development

Just spend the day implementing support for GLSL in the Lux Engine. While that increase the version of OpenGL needed to OpenGL 2.1 (was 1.4), it's seem to the only way to support Display Styles.



Above is the current state of the Display Styles, and they are still some issues with them.

This is the current GLSL code for the sprite outline but as you can see it's not quite right yet.

varying vec4 v_color;
varying vec2 v_texCoord;
vec3 ShadowColor = vec3(1.0, 0.0, 0.0);
uniform sampler2D tex0;
void main()
{
	vec4 color = texture2D(tex0, v_texCoord);
	vec4 sum;
	bool border = false;
	if (color.a < 0.9)
	{
		// Check Surrounding pixels
		sum = texture2D( tex0, abs(v_texCoord + vec2( 0.00, -0.05 )) );
		if (sum.a >= 0.5)
			border = true;
		sum = texture2D( tex0, abs(v_texCoord + vec2( -0.05, 0.00 )) );
		if (sum.a >= 0.5)
			border = true;
		sum = texture2D( tex0, abs(v_texCoord + vec2( 0.00, 0.05 )) );
		if (sum.a >= 0.5)
			border = true;
		sum = texture2D( tex0, abs(v_texCoord + vec2( 0.05, 0.00 )) );
		if (sum.a >= 0.5)
			border = true;
	}
	if ( border )
	{
		gl_FragColor = vec4(ShadowColor, 1.0);
	}
	else
	{
		gl_FragColor = color;
	}
}

I'm on the final stages of working on Mokoi Gaming 0.9, just have to fix the save system (or dump it), add path support to lux engine, and just squash some small bugs.

You also try a recent release by using Open Legends of Zelda which you can download from openzelda.net

I don't often post about things that i'm not involved with, but this worth posting here.
Buy 5 indie games for what every you're willing to pay.
Not only are you getting 5 games, you can send any amount of your purchase to two major nonprofit groups. Also the Games do run on Linux and Macs



Go to the Humble Indie Bundle website, and pick it up for at least a dollar, just World of Goo is worth that. The sale ends in under a week.

Humble Indie Bundle website: http://www.wolfire.com/humble
Ars Technica news post: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/05/the-greatest-indie-game-sale-ever-and-how-it-came-to-be.ars

Exactly a year ago I talked about the fact is Mokoi Gaming Technology was able to be a full functional replacement for Open Legends and Open Zelda that I was once involved with. As you seen in previous posts, I been working on Online Zelda game called Hyrulean Adventures, but with the addition of the Alchera Game Editor Framework, it becomes the the world first "Open Source Cross Platform Zelda Game Creation Tool"™ Open Legends of Zelda currently available for Windows and the Mac OS X operating systems.

Open Legends of Zelda Website: http://sites.google.com/site/openlegendofzelda/

Since the last post I been working on tweaking and improving usability of Alchera and Lux Engine, which are the core software I use for all of most games.

Some of the recent changes, on top of fixes and speedups, have been Animation Frames Offsets, Patch Creations and Sprite Collision Editor, which you can see below.

Animation Frames Offsets Patch Creations Sprite Collision