Flexine

New toy. Work in progress.

Here are some notes in case you find them useful.

Here are some screenshots showing what I've been working on recently :

• Burning cloth - first attempt, a lot more to come. Shows the interaction between different parts of the engine.
• Rotozoom shader - uses Flexine's dynamic shaders (text files, you simply drag & drop them on a mesh). They expose all render states from DX7 and DX8 (and even some other ones!), in a way pretty similar to what "Effects & Techniques" do in DX8. Except that it actually runs on DX7 as well (the DX8 engine is actually currently broken...)
• Explosion & lightnings - shows the textured lines and procedural lightning generation. Boom!
• Power knot - a dynamic shader applied to a knot makes a nice power-up item in a game...
• Halo 1 - a halo using the motion blur path !
• Halo 2 - the same. Scene from the old DOS demo "Shad" by Syndrome.
• Particles 1 - shows the somewhat fast particle system. Fast because hierarchical, in a Susan Fisher way.
• Particles 2 - the same with another texture, looks weird enough to be interesting.
• Environment / cubemaps / etc - shows the standard skybox-used-as-a-cubemap effect. Not especially interesting but still cute.
• ROK files - shows the support of totally unknown file formats such as those japanese ROK files I used to be fond of. Also shows the infinite grid, by-the-way.
• Displaced subdivision surfaces & anisotropic lighting - demonstrates exactly this : displaced subdivision surfaces and anisotropic lighting :) This is called "programmer art".
• Web support - shows it also works online as an ActiveX component. Scene from the old DOS demo "Explora", from Bomb (my old group).
• Decals - shows arbitrary decals over arbitrary surfaces.
• Shadows & detail textures on everything.....
• ...with a controlable, motion-blended, skinned, on-the-fly subdivided character from Unreal. Any weapon can be attached on-the-fly to any point on the skin. Also there: hierarchical culling, full collision detection & response, basic IK on the head, etc. In short, everything you need in a real app.
• High resolution characters
• Power of shaders
• More power of shaders...
• And again, and again...
• A bumpy MAX4 dragon, butterfly-subdivided a few times.
• Archipelago in its full glory.
• Some portals : the test scene viewed from outside, and from the inside using portals.
• Some terrains: Thatcher Ulrich's chunk-LOD code, converted to D3D. Integration with portals / collision detection / physics is on its way.
• Some motion blur, and more motion blur.
• Spherical harmonics lighting.
• Decals. We need decals. Lots of them. Let's say 10.000.
• And 10.000 houses to build our town.

More, later.

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