New splash screen, the sunbursts are actually animated so they spin around… quite a trippy effect in full screen:
We made that for S & G’s. And now for a something completely different:
Chad started some clientside interpolation for our prediction. Our goal is to have a smooth and enjoyable multiplayer experience. Basically what happens is the client (you) doesn’t rely on the server 100% for exact values of visual things like, for instance, the position of a ball. If your screen rendered exactly what the server told you and the game happen to have a little bit of lag, you’d see the ball warp across the screen. Instead using prediction and interpolation, it smooths out the movement to look more realistic even though the lag is still there.
Additionally, Chad just barely started implementing the physics, BulletX. Really looking forward to see what he’s going to manage.
Me? I’ve been doing crappy shit like advancing our GUI library to include tools for building a settings menu and shit. It’s really boring and I can’t wait till its done. Even though I hate it so much, I know its really needed. Such a simple tool yet so necessary for any decent game. Some games missed out on this feature and it really shows the lack of attention to detail. Although Infiniminer is a wicked fun game, it really blows ass to have to exit the game and edit a text file to change settings… oh well.
I’ve also been reworking the audio system thus far. Mainly improving performance and moving away from the MediaPlayer library. That thing sucks all sorts of donkey anus and I won’t go into how laggy it can be (you play a song and it waits 3 seconds while it blocks the rest of the application before you can actually hear anything).
I also emailed Steam, which you can keep up-to-date with here.
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