Screenshots

Mar 5th, 2005 - Duke's handgun model

Another amazing 3d model from Bogdan! (I think Duke Nukem would find the .50AE Desert Eagle an 'appropriate' choice :)

Jan 30th, 2005 - Shotgun 3d model and a glimpse at the new UI subsytem

Another great 3d model from Bogdan (and more to come!), and a brief look at the new UI subsystem I've been working on these days. (... abusing the freedom I have with LDuke3D, the UI supports 'themes' for the window decorations :)

Jan 5th, 2005 - Exclusive 'Devastator' 3d model

New 3d model for the 'devastator', created for LDuke3d by Bogdan Chesaru. Saying that I'm impressed with the quality of this model is probably redundant :)
There is still some work left to make the model usable inside the engine (as well as coding the support for 3d weapon models of course), but it's a great start.
(BTW, if anyone is interested in helping with texturing, I'd be more than happy to hear! There is only one catch: the texturing has to be at least as good as the 3d model :)

Thanks Bogdan! I'm looking forward for the rest of the weapons ;)

Dec 27th, 2004 - New portals code

Probably some of the 'ugliest' screen shoots so far :) The engine it's being rewritten (major clean up, improved design, ...) and this is how far I got it running. Doesn't look much, but I'm pretty proud of this new portal code, I've finally implemented an old idea I had: do a breadth-first traversal of the sectors 'tree', trimming the current view/frustum after each 'tree level' (I transform the portals into the camera space first so that I can only keep track of the 2d camera view)

In the end this might help a lot in many cases, as show in the screen shoots below (one of the screen shoots is with this new algorithm disabled, you can see the difference in the number of 'visible' sectors for the same scene)

without the view frustum optimization

the new code eliminates most of the sectors that are not really visible

May 15th, 2004 - Player collision detection

October 5th, 2003 - Sprites

	all duke3d sprites (wall, floor, face)
	correctly sort the sprites/masking walls

August 16th, 2003 - Mirrors

	implemented duke3d mirrors
	mirrors have a glass texture as well (in duke they are perfect mirrors)

July 21st, 2003 - Masking walls (and transparency)

	masking walls and 'one-way' walls
	transparency (for masking walls) - the transparent walls are sorted back to front to generate the correct image

May 13th, 2003 - Portals rendering in wire-frame mode

March 30th, 2003 - Mip-mapping and Fog

	textures are now mip-mapped
	sectors are fogged (black fog) to simulate 'visibility' for the original duke
	a special fog is used for the parallaxes
	fixed a couple of parallaxing problems