VDrift Graphical Upgrades

[portets]

Here something to tease you.

Laguna Seca in February:

It's a Nishita style atmospheric scattering sky box(quad).
I've got the code since February. Just haven't had the time to integrate it properly into the game.

ooooh. nice, NaN. is that info stored in the track file?

I've been thinking about moving to a graphics engine like Ogre or Irrlicht after I am satisfied with the simulation part of the game.
This would require some serious code refactoring. Hopefully I will find the time and motivation to do it.

i was actually thinking about ogre recently. i've seen some really nice looking games using ogre . one was a racing game. (actually a vehicle stunt game that was proprietary).

ogre has opengl 3.2 support i think. and it probably won't be long before ogre has opengl 3.3 support and opengl 4.0 support.

oh, by the way everyone. opengl 3.3 and 4.0 were released a couple of days ago. 4.0 seems to be very, very nice . it requires a directx 11 card capable of hardware tessellation. and 3.3 tries to backport a bunch of 4.0 features for directx 10 capable cards. opengl 2.1 is starting to become part of the past.

edit: also, glsl jumped from version 1.5 all the way to version 4.0!
edit2: http://fireuser.com/blog/opengl_release_...aves_the_/