Warzone 2100 Forums

I'm making some progress on the 3d part (terrain rendering actually). Hopefully I can have something "good enough" in a week or 2 that could be candidate for merge. Since I'm focusing on introducing a layer between current code and GL callbacks it won't actually bring any performance diffe...

Hi, in order to support mipmapping in Vulkan and use some advanced textures compression scheme (BC6/7) or layout (texture array or cube texture) Warzone 2100 textures will need to be converted to a more 3d graphic friendly format before being loaded by the game. Currently all textures are stored in ...

There's nothing to see currently, only the menu is displayed so it's hard to know how well performance will be. Plus there are a lot of glitches (no alpha blending so black boxes around letter for instance). I can't comment on Dota2, I'm also having some very small freeze especially at the beginning...

Actually adding Vulkan support is taking more time than I initially expected. I have basic 2d menu support atm but the modifications are huge. The issue is that wz2100 quietly assumes OpenGL support in a lot of place. Blending depth stencil modifications are often spread in separate place and textur...

I'd like to keep GL2.1 compatibility as long as possible. Using GL 3.3 would make dev easier with uniform buffer objects but I think it can be possible to simplify thing by using some compile time reflection.
On the other hand a vulkan backend could be used to implement some advanced technics.

Actually clustered renderer is a forward rendering technic. Deferred rendering trades shader flexibility for the ability to render lots of small point light and has an heavy bandwidth requirement (due to gbuffer storage and access) ; it also makes MSAA impractical. Clustered rendering technic on the...

What do you mean ? Windows and Linux build of cmake works for several project.
WZ2100 doesn't have a cmake build atm.

Currently wz2100 is using autotools on Linux and Mac and a separate .sln for MSVC. Maintaining 2 build systems is usually quite tedious and is error prone, that's why a lots of c++ project use cmake. A couple of weeks ago Microsoft announced the vcpkg project which is an "apt-get source" l...

Explosions will be per pixel, sorry I wasn't clear. Fog of war will remain texture based, it's rather a gameplay feature than a visual one. I've mostly finished working on it, it's not ready for usage (I didn't add safety check in shader for buffer bounds so gpu often crashes) but I can détails the ...

Hi, since I removed all legacy fixed function in my branch I'm playing with WZ lighting. I'm currently implementing per pixel lighting : currently at map loading time an illumination value is computed and stored for every tile (note: it's direct illumination ie dot product between sun position and t...

It's fixed in my branch. To be honest I don't really know why, but I don't understand why 4k is broken with fixed functions. Maybe drivers make matrix computations on float16 for performance ?

Yes, it runs on Nvidia/AMD cards released after 2012 and Intel Skylake (core iX-6xxx) and Broadwell (core iX-5XXX) on Windows and Linux. Linux drivers have some sort of support for Haswell and Ivy Bridge too but it's considered experimental. On Android side afaik only Galaxy S7 and Note 7 and latest...

I'm intending to add a Vulkan backend to Warzone 2100. Obviously the goal is not to reduce cpu overhead since the game doesn't draw a lot of thing on screen at the moment (there's around 100-200 draw call per frame), but to improve current code architecture. WZ codebase could be described as state o...

Not trivial. The codebase is quite convoluted, some object are stored in a list that could be parsed twice but it will require some works.

I've added shaders for water and terrain, I think only shadows are the only remaining effect that use fixed function pipeline.