Shader Series – Screen Space Reflections
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: Screen Space Reflections are used in every engine these days. Games from The Witcher 3 to Fortnite all employ this eff...
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Space Esc8bit Now Released
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: We’re happy to announce out second release, Space Esc8bit, a mobile missile escape game for Android and iOS. Race to t...
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Extensible Game Localisation
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: There’s lots of text in a game, but there’s also a lot of languages in the world. Google Play and Apple both allow you...
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The Chaotic Workshop – Now Available!
Originally posted on Virtex Edge Design: We are excited to announce our first game, The Chaotic Workshop! A cartoon puzzle sandbox game which challenges you to...
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Screen Space Reflections and Terrain Editor
Two major features for the Vertices Engine that I got up and running recently were SSR (Screen Space Reflections) and a fully integrated and Serializable Height...
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Colour Index Encoding Selection in WebGL
Every 3D application will have user interaction to some degree. But with the CPUs and GPUs these days, it’s easy to have 100’s or 1000’s of entities per scene,...
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Vertices Engine Optimizations – Encapsulating Post Processors
Currently most of the Post Processors are handled loosely and internally by the vxRenderer class. This is great for keeping everything in one place, but it caus...
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Vertices Engine Optimizations – Camera Frustum Culling
As Metric has progressed, I started running into frame rate drops while debugging. Naturally the game is going to run slower when Visual Studio is debugging it...
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Metric Dev – Ship AI
The extent of any AI I’ve ever written is mashing together macro’s in excel to streamline complicated tasks. So when it came to developing an AI for Metric, I d...
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Shader Porting to Linux MonoGame
One of the things which I wanted to implement in the Vertices Engine were Crepuscular Rays, more commonly known as God Rays. These have become ubiquitous in gam...
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Vertices Engine Porting : Success
After a weekend of coding, porting, and compiling, I manged to get a large portion of the shaders ported over too MonoGame. It was really nice to finally see Go...
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Virtex Edge Dev Blog: So What Works Out of the Box.
Firing up Xaramin and adding each of my *.cs files into the new project. I found there were actually very few issues building the actual C# code. The issues sho...
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Setting Up MonoGame
I played around with Monogame for a long time, but had a lot of trouble getting shaders working as well as figuring out all the nuances of content. It’s finally...
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First Look at Metric Racer
So I’ve been hard at work over at Virtex Edge, and I’m happy to show the first glimpse at Metric Racer. I first started working on it years ago when i first got...
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Virtex Edge Design
Finding I had more time on my hands recently, I decided it was time to start a video game company. I started Virtex Edge Design, as a gaming development, animat...
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