Author: Ale

This week was pretty packed, but I found some time to write the final addition to the native components for the vertical slice of the Editor. This time around, the…Continue readingNew Scale Tween Component for the Vortex Engine

Work continued on the Vortex Editor this past week. One UI element that has always been somewhat of a functional placeholder and I’ve been meaning to revisit was the Entity…Continue readingRevisiting the Entity View

This week I’ve been working in different several UX enhancements for the Editor to improve the scene building experience in general. One thing to notice in the above image is…Continue readingBuilding a Vortex Engine scene using Vortex Editor

At the end of last week’s article, we signed off mentioning the possibility of providing two component APIs for the Entity Component System of the Vortex Editor. Although I’m still…Continue readingOff-the-Shelf Native Components

Last week, we got to a point were we can drag and drop an MD2 file into the 3D view and it automatically instantiate an Entity representing the 3D model.…Continue readingEntity Components in the Vortex-Engine

This week I worked on a way to bring in external assets into the Editor. The way this works is by means of a new import tool in the UI.…Continue readingBring in the Assets!

This week I finished implementing full edition of Entity transformations by means of the properties panel. In the above image, five box instances were dynamically created and then moved, rotated…Continue readingEntity transform via the Properties Panel