Deleted post :( ( Mon 19 Jan 2009 )
My last post was deleted in a server migration. It was about me doing some optimizations to the render engine ( with not as much success as I expected ) and walking characters requiring more to work properly that the simple collision detection and pathfinding that this engine provides.
I was wondering where that post went!
Keepin an eye out for any new revisions on google code
Mike said this on January 19th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I was noticing the long break between posts as well (possibly just because I check for them so often
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Looking forward to the next release.
Pat said this on January 20th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Hey found your last post on my Google reader!
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Hi everybody,
here’s some progress report.
Rendering
I’ve been trying to optimize the whole rendering process. Some of the “thinking” behind it is quite old, from the days of AS1, so I thought It was well worth the effort of revisiting it.
I have managed to reduce the amount of layers and blendmodes needed to achieve the lighting. Also, there are less transform matrixes involved.
However, the performance increase ( at least in my preliminary tests ) is not as big as I expected. After all these years there are some things about the flash render engine that still elude me. But it will go faster, around 15% , so It is an improvement after all.
About walking
I have fixed several collision and pathfinding related bugs. I receive lots of questions about pathfinding and collisions, mostly about “making a character walk properly from point A to point B”. Making a character walk around is a complex thing ( even in GTA IV characters get stuck all the time ). The engine provides a way of calculating a path between two coordinates and collision events, but there’s a lot of extra work needed to get a decent walk.
My poncho demo provides a quick and dirty effort in this matter, but with different cell size, character size and speed it will need to be adjusted. I provide it as an example of how to approach the issue, but I don’t consider the walk algorythm a part of the FFilmation engine. I’d like to point that the engine will never provide a walkTo() method because it can’t be effectively solved in a generic way.
This is something that belongs to every application, not to a graphic engine.
Release
I expect to release and update by the end of the month.
Bye !
Sam said this on January 20th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Thnks man !
admin said this on January 20th, 2009 at 1:11 pm