Piko3D

Another post! Why not 😉

We’re currently enjoying the Revision demo party again!
No demo this year 🙁  We had some trouble getting our creative juices flowing again,
But not to worry. New stuff is in the works!

I’m currently using the time here to improve culling on cascading shadow maps, and wrapping them up.
I’ll see if I can post another screen shot about it soon-ish.
Micron is working on joint limits for IK which is pretty complex, but a lot of fun to look at 😉
Paramike is looking to improve our renderer further, while Furos and Cisst are working on game art and game ideas.

So yes! We’re not dead! But it’s always difficult for us to start a new project and get everything going again!

Keep ya posted!
Wracky

“This gonna be an annual thing with you Manny?”- Velasco – Grim Fandango

Well I hope I can update a bit more often in the upcoming year, but I’m here to tell you now:
WE HAVE ANOTHER DEMO ENTRY!

We’re entering into the game compo at Revision 2017 this year, with your game called “KillVector”.
It’s a gravity-twisting FPS for up to 8 players, and it will feature on the revision live stream today at the end of the compo-block between 18:30 and 20:00.

You can watch the livestream here!: https://2017.revision-party.net/live

I’ll see if I can provide a download link here later.

See ya!
Wracky

So yes, we fixed a LOT of bugs in the last couple of hours, and we turned a strange spaceship and some bullets that couldn’t hit anything into a small game! Sadly, we didn’t have time to finish the sound effects, but HELL we wanted to finally release something 🙂 Besides, it’s in space. There’s no sound in space 😛

Hey peeps!

Here we are again! We’re at the Revision demo party again!
Always a good time to get some marathon coding done 😉

Let’s see what we can come up with this year eh? Probably lot of bug fixes 😛

Regards,
Wracky

Hey Peepz!

A lot of gaming (Wildstar!) has been going on lately, but tonight, we’re coding Piko3d again!

Knights of the Laptop Table

Hope to have something new to show you soon. 😉

Regards,
Wracky

Hi everyone!

So! We’re at Revision demo party right now!
We were planning on participating in the Game compo this year, but the night before we needed to submit our entry, everything went wrong, and we were left with not enough time to put the demo together the way we wanted. A shame! It would have been our first entry 😉 That said, the game compo was crazy good this year, and a lot of fun to watch.

We might release our little game demo later through this page 😉
Aside from that, so far it’s been a really productive weekend as well! We may not have a demo this time, but we’re coding like mad, and working on all the other stuff that we still need to get done. We have now completed our switch to Bullet physics, and Micron is working hard to extend our physics capabilities further. Meanwhile Paramike is doing a big overhaul to make Piko3D much more multi-threaded, so we can make better use of all those extra cores in all your machines 😀  I’m currently working on a lot of different stuff. We now support additive blending and emissive objects (objects that are unaffected by lighting) and I’ve been making a lot of small improvements that make the lives of our game developers a lot easier.

Anywayz! We’re having a blast.

Talk to you later 😉
Regards,

Wracky

Hello all!

Still hard at work here! Cisst and Furos, our game programmers (slash artists, we still have a small team 😉 ) are finally using our script interface how it’s meant to be used: to create a game! Obviously, this is the reason why we are doing this, so we’re very excited! Cisst has created an awesome first version of a side scrolling game. Furos is creating a platform game. Both are just prototypes, meant to familiarize our game programmers with Piko3D and AngelScript.

Of course, this means that finally all missing features and existing bugs will need to be fixed 😉 To motivate us, Furos has even created a meme for one of their biggest peeves while creating their prototypes:

Cheers!

Paramike

Hi all,

We have ported Piko3D to the newest hardware. The results can be seen here:

Just a bit of fun ofcourse 😉 We are working on GUI functionality: Wracky is working on raypicking, I (Paramike) am working on support for more image types and support for non-power of two images.

Micron is finishing up our animation/physics blend, and is almost finished. It’s pretty awesome, if we say so ourselves 😉

Stay tuned!

– Paramike

Hey everyone,

We mostly use Visual Studio 2010 express edition for Piko3D development. We’ve been using this version of visual studio for a couple of years now, and we were always annoyed by what we perceived to be, limited functionality of the program.

With a default installation, a lot of the standard features you find in the full version of Visual studio are disabled.
For instance, amongst others, the following features are disabled:

• Attaching the debugger to running processes
• Memory windows, for viewing program memory,
• Cancel build steps
• Pause a running program
• Restart a running program
• The entire “Build” menu in the main menu bar.

We always thought this was pretty annoying! Turns out, each one of these features IS available!
And I only noticed it yesterday. I’ve been cursing at Microsoft time and time again for the what I thought “absence” of these features, and it turns out they are there all along! We all installed visual studio 2012 with “Basic Settings” … Turns out you need “Expert Settings” for all of this to be available!

I’ve seen a lot of people online looking for these options in the Express editions of Visual studio, so I thought I’d make a post.
You can find the “Expert mode” in the Tools menu, under “Settings”

Regards,
Wracky.