{"id":610,"date":"2009-07-05T23:58:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T13:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/?p=610"},"modified":"2009-07-05T23:58:53","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T13:58:53","slug":"the-sky-is-falling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/2009\/07\/05\/the-sky-is-falling\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky is Falling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MT_SkyFall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-611\" title=\"MT_SkyFall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vectorstorm.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MT_SkyFall-300x195.png\" alt=\"MT_SkyFall\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MT_SkyFall-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MT_SkyFall-1024x668.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/MT_SkyFall.png 1052w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Lots and lots of stuff been going on, lately. \u00a0Most notable is probably this prototype for the &#8220;taking the MMORPG offline&#8221; sequence, in which the sky breaks up into hundreds of pieces and explodes away. \u00a0The still probably doesn&#8217;t do it proper justice.<\/p>\n<p>Other fun stuff includes further rendering optimisations (got VBOs fully working, got my shader-based rendering path to run just as fast as the fixed function pipeline, etc), and a fully functional 2D UI system, based around a button bar at the bottom of the screen. \u00a0However, I&#8217;m not entirely sure how I&#8217;m going to take a screenshot of that button bar just yet; \u00a0the UI slides out of view when you&#8217;re not actually using it, and my screen capture program takes mouse focus away from the program while it makes the screenshot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll figure something out, though. \u00a0:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots and lots of stuff been going on, lately. \u00a0Most notable is probably this prototype for the &#8220;taking the MMORPG offline&#8221; sequence, in which the sky breaks up into hundreds of pieces and explodes away. \u00a0The still probably doesn&#8217;t do it proper justice. Other fun stuff includes further rendering optimisations (got VBOs fully working, got&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9WK-9Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vectorstorm.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}