Wow...a milestone is reached! Welcome to my 200th blog post which is not going to be about anything special. sorry. 
Well, maybe I can share some of the stuff I have been working on a few days ago. I loaded my BatteryCheck game code again and started to tinker with it a bit. Trying to remember what the biggest issues/challenges are that I needed to fix. And I think the biggest one for now is also the most complex....sprite dicing! I posted a video about it a while ago on youtube, but in short it slices a sprite into tiny pieces (or tiles) and then only saves the unique tiles! This means empty space does not to be wasted in textures on the GPU, and if sprites are very similar between frames they can share a few tiles. This saves a huge amount of VRAM!
The only issue is that my prototype code is all written in Python....and the multi-platform game is in C++! So I first need to rewrite a working "sprite dicer" that analyzes the sprites and find a quick way to compare tiles. The python implementation I have works...but is terribly slow actually. It's "ok" when the tile size is big like 32x32 or 16x16...but when you go to 8x8 or lower it gets really slow. But it's a prototype...and it works...so what do you expect right! hahahah
Anyway, at the moment it's way to warm here to be writing code...it's going to be near 30 degrees Celsius here today they said.....I HATE the heat! And I used to hate the sun because of it...and also because I burn easily after just a few minutes of sunlight on my skin. So...I am either a vampire....or it's my ginger genes I guess.
But at least I am now harvesting the sun's energy with my solar panels...and now I actually want more sun light every day. Just not on my skin...but on the panels. Hahahahahhaha
I guess this is enough for now. Thanks for reading
Well, maybe I can share some of the stuff I have been working on a few days ago. I loaded my BatteryCheck game code again and started to tinker with it a bit. Trying to remember what the biggest issues/challenges are that I needed to fix. And I think the biggest one for now is also the most complex....sprite dicing! I posted a video about it a while ago on youtube, but in short it slices a sprite into tiny pieces (or tiles) and then only saves the unique tiles! This means empty space does not to be wasted in textures on the GPU, and if sprites are very similar between frames they can share a few tiles. This saves a huge amount of VRAM!
The only issue is that my prototype code is all written in Python....and the multi-platform game is in C++! So I first need to rewrite a working "sprite dicer" that analyzes the sprites and find a quick way to compare tiles. The python implementation I have works...but is terribly slow actually. It's "ok" when the tile size is big like 32x32 or 16x16...but when you go to 8x8 or lower it gets really slow. But it's a prototype...and it works...so what do you expect right! hahahah
Anyway, at the moment it's way to warm here to be writing code...it's going to be near 30 degrees Celsius here today they said.....I HATE the heat! And I used to hate the sun because of it...and also because I burn easily after just a few minutes of sunlight on my skin. So...I am either a vampire....or it's my ginger genes I guess.
But at least I am now harvesting the sun's energy with my solar panels...and now I actually want more sun light every day. Just not on my skin...but on the panels. Hahahahahhaha
I guess this is enough for now. Thanks for reading
