Year: 2016

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

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