#epicray

Recently I added multi-threaded rendering support to my open source java raycasting game engine. 

The last few weeks, I was pretty busy with university stuff. If I did anything else, I optimized EpicRay. After the drop to 8fps (due to floor and ceiling textures), I optimized the rendering to go up to about 15 fps. 

This is on 800x600 resolution by the way and very system dependant, as well as dependant on how many other things are going on the computer aswell (obviously).

How much multi-threading helped in terms of framerate was actually a big surprise. I now have 60fps for world rendering (no sprite rendering implemented yet). 

I did some work on Epic Ray today. I refractored the rendering system to how it was meant originally (most of the code was make-shift, just to have something on the screen). Also, there is a depthbuffer now :)

EpicRay now supports floor and ceiling color rendering (no textures just of yet), and the implementation of masked wall textures and fog are now possible! :)

Also, EpicRay has a basic editor, player movement (wasd). 

I finally got around to uploading my work to GitHub. Although everything is very rudimentary, placeholder-heavy and so on, here's a link to the repo:

EpicRay has regained a certain stage of completion! Although I was this far before, now I actually have some powerful structure behind everything which will not collapse if loads of features are built onto it.

What EpicRay has now what my engine didn't have before is player movement. No textures yet though.

Currently I am roughly coding a basic editor for the engine (tile maps and such).

As always there has been a lack of posts in the last few weeks. 

Well, last post more or less promised a design for EpicRay. Sadly I have to say that design got me a little bored. And although I did get something written down, I was to lazy to continue further. Nevertheless I created a GitHub repository containing only the designs up to now. (Search for "EpicRay" if you really want to ;P)

I will start coding some Interfaces sometime, but don't see that coming in very near future.

Meanwhile I was distracted with other fun stuff: Android development. I got the SDK set up, wasted lots of time trying to get applications started on actual devices, and finally more or less copied&understood code from a book. Eventually I will want to make some free and probably sucky game, just to have done it.

Also, I think I never mentioned this: I own a Palm Pre, which I got over e-bay once for rather cheap. There are almost no decent free games for WebOS, and that probably due to the not so simple SDK Installation (my impression, but I always have problems getting things set up).