This is my second “abandoning” article (also see “Abandoning Vulkan”) so it needs to be mentioned that I am all for trying new things and not sticking to a single programming language or technology in general. As was the case with the Vulkan API, before deciding to write this text as the conclusion…

New video: Second Life Fantasy Faire, 2024, with the new Sharpview viewer:

https://video.hardlimit.com/w/7usCE3v2RrWK6nuoSr4NHJ​

I posted a video last year that looked similar. But the player couldn't move from one region to another back then. Now, movement around the big world (it's the size of Los …

Today we released our very first pre-alpha trailer:

Now that we're officially out of stealth mode, here's what you should know.

We are making an open source game (MIT/Apache repository going public in 1-2 months) which we will put on all major game/app stores with a price tag. By…

Mipmaps are smaller filtered images of the original texture, a mipmap level 1 is half the image size, mipmap level 2 is quarter of the original size and so on.

This is useful for performance and image quality. Without mipmaps you will have strong visible articats in the distance due to the fact that…

This is not a Writing question. Moving to an appropriate forum.