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!
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
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
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
This week we swtiched gears back into Rendering! A lot of work went into building Normal Mapping in the new Renderer. The following image shows the dramatic results: Here, I…Continue readingNormal Mapping 2.0
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
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
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!
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
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