Team Projects

Rendering pipeline - Everything from loading the models with FBX SDK to shaders. 

• Decals - Tileable, angle threshold to avoid stretching

• Materials - Shaders, textures, instances, settings (sampler state, world aligned UV:s, etc.)

• Shadow mapping for spotlights and local directional lights

• Unified pipeline - Rendering in-game is the same as in the editor

• Instanced draw calls - Everything that could be batched was batched in a single draw call

• Frustum culling - Multi-threaded octree.

• New model handling - Treating everything as meshes instead of models, animated models, sprite2Ds, and sprite3Ds.

• Model loading on a separate thread.

• Window handling

Entity Component System - read more about it here

Double buffering - Render and Update on separate threads

Scene management

Input management - Full keyboard & controller support

Combined the thread that loads the models and the thread that checks if a file has changed. Most of the work for the first one is done during start up and the other does most of its work during runtime, so they would work very well as a single thread.

16 people, 6 weeks, 20 hours a week, C++, TGE (Custom school engine)

Reference game: Diablo 3

Rendering pipeline

• Shadow mapping for spotlights and local directional lights

UI System - Editable in the editor and uses nine slicing

Double buffering - Render and Update on separate threads

Scene management

Input management - Full keyboard & controller support

The loading screen was animated and done on another thread, but it was setup last minute ad-hoc style and as such it had at least one race condition which would crash it on some computers.

16 people, 6 weeks, 20 hours a week, C++, TGE (Custom school engine)

Reference game: Death's Door

Rendering pipeline

UI System - Support for nine slicing

Double buffering - Render and Update on separate threads

Scene management

Input management - Full keyboard & controller support

Add ability to edit UI from the editor. I made sure to fix this in all future projects.

13 people, 10 weeks, 20 hours a week, C++, TGE (Custom school engine)

Reference game: Super Meat Boy