Author: Ale

This week, work focused on developing a completely new interface for placing and customizing lights in the scene. The history of Vortex with lights is interesting. In Vortex 1.1, the…Continue readingNew Light Interface

These past few weeks the majority of work went into establishing the underpinnings for frame postprocessing in the new V3 renderer. Vortex 2.0 was the first version of the engine…Continue readingPostprocessing Underpinnings

Last week work continued on different parts of the Editor. As the new renderer falls into place, I’ve been going through the Editor code, finding scaffolding and other legacy code…Continue readingReaching Feature Parity

This week I reimplemented the camera logic from scratch. The previous camera controls in Vortex date from around 2010 and, even though it worked and helped release a number of…Continue readingNew RenderCamera Work

This week, work continued on the new V3 Renderer. In the image above, we can see that the renderer is starting to produce some images. It might not look like…Continue readingFirst Steps for the V3 Renderer

This week I took on the large task of implementing a serialization scheme that allows saving the user’s scene onto their disk. The problem at hand can divided in two…Continue readingThe slow road to persistence: encoding