Ale – Alejandro Segovia Azapian

2020: Vortex Retrospective

December 31, 2020July 27, 2025Ale

As another year concludes, it’s time to recap this strange, strange year and take a look at what work made it into the project. In 2020, two major pillars of…Continue reading2020: Vortex Retrospective

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Image Effects and Entity Highlighting

August 26, 2019July 27, 2025Ale

This weekend work went into adding a visual outline to the selected entity. While entity selection has been a feature since the early days of the editor, a cue to…Continue readingImage Effects and Entity Highlighting

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Vortex Runtime for Android

March 4, 2019July 27, 2025Ale

Eight years after my initial experiments with OpenGL via the Android NDK, there is now a fully-functioning Vortex Runtime for Android and Chromebook devices. The Vortex Engine had not run…Continue readingVortex Runtime for Android

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Let’s Build Pong in Vortex Engine!

February 11, 2019February 17, 2019Ale

In our last post, we presented the new event system in Vortex and how it allows scripts to receive and react to input events. This week we want to put…Continue readingLet’s Build Pong in Vortex Engine!

Lua Vortex-Engine

Event Handling via Scripts

February 4, 2019February 5, 2019Ale

This week work went into adding support for receiving events and passing them down to scripts. The idea is to allow scripts to provide some logic that reacts to user…Continue readingEvent Handling via Scripts

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Modern C++ Lua Interface

January 21, 2019January 19, 2019Ale

As we continue to grow the Lua scripting API for Vortex, it’s become clear that we need a better, less verbose way to expose “classes” and their functions to the…Continue readingModern C++ Lua Interface

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2018: Vortex Retrospective

December 31, 2018December 24, 2018Ale

Despite what it might look like from reviewing this blog’s history, a lot of work went into Vortex through the course of 2018. So much so, in fact, that just…Continue reading2018: Vortex Retrospective

Lua Vortex-Engine

Scripting the Runtime

December 24, 2018December 21, 2018Ale

This past weekend I spent some time making sure the Lua scripting runtime worked correctly on the iOS runtime. While archiving already took care of including scripts into generated Vortex…Continue readingScripting the Runtime

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Developing the Scripting API

October 22, 2018February 17, 2019Ale

With the vertical slice complete and the 3D renderer in a good spot, this week I decided to shift focus to the scripting API of the engine. Scripting is a…Continue readingDeveloping the Scripting API

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Vortex Engine V3 and Editor Vertical Slice Complete!

August 20, 2018August 20, 2018Ale

Just a few days ahead of the 2018 SIGGRAPH conference, the last few pieces came into place to allow a complete experience from Editor to Runtime. When we set out…Continue readingVortex Engine V3 and Editor Vertical Slice Complete!

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Deferred Realtime Point Lights

July 23, 2018July 18, 2018Ale

It has been a while since my last update, but I’m excited to share significant progress with the new renderer. As of a couple of weeks ago, the new renderer…Continue readingDeferred Realtime Point Lights

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Multiple Directional Realtime Lights

September 4, 2017September 3, 2017Ale

This week work went into supporting multiple directional realtime lights in the new Vortex V3 renderer. In the image above, we have a scene composed of several meshes, each with…Continue readingMultiple Directional Realtime Lights

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