Alejandro Segovia Azapian

Putting it all together

July 10, 2017July 11, 2017Ale

This week has been a big one in terms of wrangling together several big pillars of the engine to provide wider functionality. The image below shows how we can now…Continue readingPutting it all together

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Component Introspection

July 3, 2017July 4, 2017Ale

This week, work on the scripting interface continued. As the image below shows, I can now access an entity’s components and even drill down to its Material through the Lua…Continue readingComponent Introspection

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Vortex Editor turns 1 year!

June 26, 2017December 21, 2018Ale

I hadn’t realized, but the Vortex Editor turned one year old a couple of months ago. I set off to work on this project in my free time with a…Continue readingVortex Editor turns 1 year!

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Binding C++ to Lua

June 19, 2017June 19, 2017Ale

For the last couple of weeks, a lot of work has been going into developing the scripting API that the engine is exposing to Lua. Embedding a scripting language into…Continue readingBinding C++ to Lua

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Building the Engine Scripting API

June 6, 2017February 12, 2019Ale

Last week when we left off, we were able to implement a Lua REPL in the Vortex Editor console. This week, I wanted to take things further by allowing Lua…Continue readingBuilding the Engine Scripting API

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Adding a Scripting Engine to Vortex

May 29, 2017May 29, 2017Ale

This week I added scripting support to the Engine. I chose to go with Lua because of how easy it is to integrate into existing C/C++ codebases. I’ve mentioned Lua…Continue readingAdding a Scripting Engine to Vortex

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Deferred Rendering – Part II: Handling Normals

March 27, 2017March 25, 2017Ale

This week work went into adding normal data to the G-Buffer and Light passes. I left normal data out while I was still implementing the architecture for the deferred renderer,…Continue readingDeferred Rendering – Part II: Handling Normals

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Deferred Rendering – Part I

March 20, 2017March 19, 2017Ale

This week, work went into completing the initial implementation of a Deferred Renderer for Vortex. Every feature we had been incorporating into the Engine so far was building up to…Continue readingDeferred Rendering – Part I

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G-Buffer

March 14, 2017March 13, 2017Ale

This week I started working on the G-Buffer implementation for the deferred renderer. The G-Buffer pass consists in the first half of any deferred shading algorithm. The idea is that,…Continue readingG-Buffer

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Multi-Render Targets

March 6, 2017March 6, 2017Ale

This week, work went into testing Multi-Render Target support. Usually abbreviated MRT, Multi-Render Targets allow our shaders’ output to be written to more than one texture in a single render…Continue readingMulti-Render Targets

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Quick Procedural Geometry Notes

February 27, 2017February 27, 2017Ale

This past week was crazy busy and I didn’t have any time to sit down and code. Nonetheless, I had the time to work out the math and jot down…Continue readingQuick Procedural Geometry Notes

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New Light Interface

February 13, 2017February 12, 2019Ale

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