Damn that looks nice, i love your engine !

I've been following the Vapor engine for a while, and it's looking really good. I like to see engine coders that understand the importance of gameplay enough to build prototype and test games on top of graphics technologies without waiting until all the "neato" features are in.

This shot looks really cool, and different from any of the other stuff you've done with it. Kudos!

-z

nice! what happened to the racing game though? i've been wanting to play that wipeout 2097 style racer for a while :)

"I like to see engine coders that understand the importance of gameplay enough to build prototype and test games on top of graphics technologies without waiting until all the "neato" features are in."

In fairness, engine coders are generally not the ones responsible for the gameplay.

egad, just saw on your site that you killed it! nooooo... if i get enough people to say they want to play it, will you release what you've got? :)

">>if i get enough people to say they want to play it, will you release what you've got"

You do realize he's had a demo of the racing game on his site since January, right? Perhaps you were refering to changes since then, but if not, check out his downloads page.

I meant, specifically, in the free project "hobbiest" arena. I realize that, in a professional setting, these are different jobs... it's just refreshing to see an independent engine that isn't all graphics features and no scene graph, etc.

-z

Ass kickin'!!
And you've done it ALL yourself!!

That demo is absolutely brilliant!

I love it :)
(especially that waterfall scene)

I can only agree!

Great demo! I loved it.

aha, the many interesting things one finds when one looks...

thanks for the kick up the arse :)

OK, in that case I agree. Too many people label their projects as "game engines" ... what they really are, are "graphics engines".

I'd just like the say that the scene with the viewscreens looking upon other viewscreens looking upon other viewscreens... That was cool. :)

Jonathan

Very nice, Is your engine still BSP/PVS? have you considered any other partitioning scheme?

Haven't tried the demo, but the shots on your site are absolutely spectacular! Especially the water and fog mixing thing.

Speaking of water, how do you handle it? Do you animate the vertices or the texture coordinates to similate the ebbing of the water? I've been trying to implement a system where the texture coordinates are shifted over time to make the water swirly (kinda like Quake), but I can't get it to look right. Any tips?

You are so tight!

Very Nice. I think those little messages are a nice touch. And it runs great on my system. P2 350 64mb Voodoo 3 2000

Very well put. :)

-z

I just downloaded and watched the demo.


DAMN.


Very cool. Solid artistically, and very impressive tech-wise. Ran smooth as glass (1G Athlon, GF3, 256MB).

-z

Nice pic.

Back when you started work on the racing game, you said you might release the API specs for your engine, so others could mess around with it. What ever happened to that?

I for one am very interested.

I interested too. More the layout than using it. After reading "elements of an engine", I'd really like to see what the api look like.

Nice, reminds me of running for the C train in the morning!

Just tried the demo. What can I say. WOW! You did ALL that yourself. Thats a lot of work. Very impressive. Now that is what I call dedication.

Nice,
This is one of those iotd's that you sit back and admire for its grapihical beauty (can't download it thanks to dial-up speed)... then freak when you realize that you need to do 900+ hours on your own project to get it to look half as good.

or in my case, multiply the figure by twelve

Hehe... You should see the kinda crap we put poor Luke through at work.. Not to mention the fact that he has to put up with me all day :).

Very nice btw! Now if only we were doing an indoor FPS....
-doug

I was wondering when this was going to go IOTD :)

This demo rocks so much and its good that its finally made it to the site. Anyone who's been to New England (And specifically Boston and even more specifically Academic Cambridge) might recognise this picture as based on the Redline T :)

Luke and I rode it together in Boston - its a freaky experience.

Freaky, I downloaded the demo a couple of days ago and then it turns out as an Image of the day. Good work, especially the church part looked _really_ good.

humm.. saw something strange in the last scene of the demo.
the dancing blue lady is spinning with the scene but with a great distance off center..

the trees. are you planing on puting leaves on them?
Im braindancing on trees my self. think yours looked nice.

real good work even did the music. great..

looks very professional. Would get you a game job if you didn't have one allready :-)

It is a 1st person game, didn't you hear? We changed the design yesterday! Time to start over.

Luke - very nice work. I really like your music too.

Wayne