Author Archives: Krom

Wallside texture

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Krom

This weekend I spent at one of my favorite activities, which I turn to very rarely – painting textures. Here is wall side texture – at ~70% done. I’m painting in Photoshop at x4 scale and then resize the image to … Continue reading →

Posted in Live progress, Screenshots | 5 Comments

Light texture optimizations

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Krom

For today’s improvement I have added textures reuse. All terrain decals are different models. For example road decals are 6 different models (having 0 – 4 connections to neighbors in different configurations). Each decal now has UV texture of the … Continue reading →

Posted in How things work, Live progress, Screenshots | 7 Comments

Working on UV mapped decals

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Krom

Working on combining terrain textures and UV mapped decals:

Posted in Live progress, Screenshots | 2 Comments

Weird reflections

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Krom

Been working on water shader improvements. Sky reflection in water looks weird, if there’s no sky texture: P.S. Don’t look on FPS – it’s from my older PC with old GPU.

Posted in Live progress, Screenshots | 3 Comments

Smoothed terrain screenshots

Posted on May 21, 2016 by Krom

Screenshots of smoothed terrain. Still largely WIP. I’m planning to add normals to mountains next.

Posted in Screenshots | 3 Comments

On Terrain

Posted on May 20, 2016 by Krom

I have got this reply from sado1 (forum link) on previous post about terrain textures. I thought many would be interested in replies, so here goes: It might be too early to mention that, but right now the terrain looks … Continue reading →

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Profits from rewriting terrain render

Posted on May 17, 2016 by Krom

There are a couple of positive effects of rewriting terrain render, among which much better scalability. Previously one terrain chunk (8×8 tiles) was limited to having just 4 textures. Now they are automatically split into buckets with 4 textures each. … Continue reading →

Posted in Live progress, Sidenotes | 5 Comments

Thoughts on terrain

Posted on May 11, 2016 by Krom

Once again I’m thinking about reworking terrain render. Introduction of terrain textures rendered old terrain render approach useless. Let’s recap how it works. Till now everything gets assembles from tiles. Each tile having from 2 to 20+ polygons to show … Continue reading →

Posted in How things work, Ideas | 3 Comments

Knights Province Alpha 6 gameplay on YouTube

Posted on May 8, 2016 by Krom

From time to time I search for Knights Province on Google or YouTube, to see if there’s anything new about it that I don’t know. Today I have spotted another Knights Province video on YouTube (almost 1 month old). It … Continue reading →

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Performance charts

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Krom

Rigged those fancy-looking performance charts today. Each section is part of the total frame render time. As you can see, example frame gets rendered under 20ms (equals to ~50fps). Most of the time is spent in rendering of terrain and … Continue reading →

Posted in Sidenotes, Tools | 9 Comments