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In the previous entry I ended with an abrupt half-joke where I said I got raytracing working. The idea was that I spent days struggling to get simple old technology working properly, but then casually mastered cutting-edge tech in a single sentence. Sadly, it’s not totally true. I got access to raytracing, but I think it’s a stretch to say it’s “working”.

When I left off, I presented you with an image that looked more or less like this:

That’s what the program looks like when you leave it alone, but if you move the camera even slightly then it looks something like this: Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Adventures in Raytracing”

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

This is a second entry, following the first one, which makes this a series now.  If you remember, my son Issac made a level for Garry’s mod that I thought was cool, and I foolishly assumed it would be easy to get it translated to a modern engine. Here’s the original level:

It was unreasonably difficult to extract all of those polygons and render them in another game engine. Let’s talk about why. Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Revisiting a Dead Engine”

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.

This no-content post is brought to you by sloth, incompetence, and malfeasance. I have lots of content in the pipeline, but I recently got sidetracked by a project that I figured ought to take “a few hours”, and has now devoured much, much more than a few hours.

It all started when my son Issac showed me a Garry’s Mod level he was working on…

Continue reading ⟩⟩ “No content today. Except for this.”

Shamus Young is a programmer, an author, and nearly a composer. He works on this site full time. If you'd like to support him, you can do so via Patreon or PayPal.