Bay Area Meetings: AMD, NVIDIA, and Havok
December 26th, 2009
Two weeks ago, John and I came back from our scholarship-sponsored trip to Game Connection in Lyon. Several of the companies we met in France are located here in the Bay Area and…
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Happy holidays!
December 25th, 2009
Happy holidays from the Wolfire Team! Happy holidays! View the original
HD detail map textures
December 24th, 2009
Last week I posted about some new levels I was working on. A number of people criticised the texture resolution. Recently, I've been working on updating some of our older textures…
Close-up and distant terrain lighting
December 23rd, 2009
Normal-mapped detail textures are effective at conveying close-up detail, but don't add too much in the distance. In Overgrowth, the players will spend most of their time looking…
Overgrowth alpha 58
December 22nd, 2009
Here is what is new in Overgrowth in this weekly alpha. If you are confused what a weekly alpha is, or even what Overgrowth is, please read our fancy FAQ. Basically, we are…
Soft normal maps for grass
December 21st, 2009
Grass is an especially difficult material to convey in a flat texture, because grass isn't flat. In fact, it's not even a continuous surface! For this reason, we'll eventually need…
Fading detail textures
December 20th, 2009
Here's a problem you can probably recognize from many games -- obvious tiling effects on terrain textures. The textures look good up close, but in the distance it's obvious that it…
More Mesmerizing Meebo Mischief
December 19th, 2009
I recently discovered a synergy between Meebo tools. Apparently the Meebo flask is designed to work in tandem with the Meebo live chat widget. Where crazy Meebo conversations might…
Three new landscapes
December 18th, 2009
Here are some examples of new landscapes I'm working on. They're based on photo references, but have a touch of artistic license. We're still not sure if we'll have water in…