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I recorded a full level with the exact same object spawned through its length.
It's the exact same game at 60 and 164 fps.


Now, to the zgeBullet framerate...

It *maybe* is harder on PC at 60 FPS. I have two possible causes that I'm going to look into: First, I'm going to create a fake level that spawns the exact same objects at the exact same positions and verify whether the enemy/obstacle spawn rate is affected by the FPS. Second, and I don't like this ...

164 FPS on the computer 60 FPS on the phone On the computer, I have time to look outside the screen, kill every enemy whenever I want, and navigate around obstacles. On the phone, I can't finish the first level without losing 90% of my HP, as I'm constantly overwhelmed by enemies and having a near-d...

Hello, I'm preparing the release of the next version of Omeganaut, and I’ve run into another issue. It’s been bothering me for a while, but I wasn’t sure at first: the game seems to run faster on the phone than on PC. Everything in the code is tied to App.Time or App.DeltaTime, so it should run at t...

Oh. All right
Thanks. I'll try that. I wonder how they manage to handle the looping, though. Maybe it's an animated texture?

Edit:
I found this very interesting article about this wind effect
https://medium.com/@gordonnl/wind-f4fc7a3b366a

You suspect right. But I want the wind to pass near the camera, so we can appreciate the direction of the wind. Not just breezes in a distance. Would the stretched bitmap work in that case? It really looks like your polygon trail : Screenshot_20260121-153034.png But the bitmap technique is interesti...

Whoops, sorry. I'm on a long bus trip... I thought it was the same trail example as another one that I have on my drive. I'm pretty sure it was also made by you : <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> <ZApplication Name="App" Caption="ZGameEditor application...

Hello. I intend to use something like this in my boat game, for the wind. But since your effect is made of pure openGL functions, I don't know if it is compatible with ES2/GL3. I tried a few things already, but the trail isn't showing up. Should I abandon the openGL functions and port that to a Mesh...

Thanks for those examples, Kjell, they are very helpful to me.
Thanks to that, I’m currently calculating the normals only where the stitches happen between ocean chunks. The rest use auto-generated normals.

However, why not simply start with a 2D mesh that has the triangles flipped for each symmetrical side? :wink: Oh, I didn’t know that MeshExpression could apply to combined meshes, but that makes sense. Perfect for my boat :D However, now I’m unable to apply a texture properly, and I’ve tried all po...

Hello 🙂 I made a whole boat from a single 2D mesh: Screenshot 2026-01-04 113029.png I was quite happy with it until I realized that the hole will never be symmetrical: Screenshot 2026-01-04 113349.png So I remade only half of the boat from a 2D mesh and mirrored it using scale.X = -1.0 to get the ot...

Hello everyone, and happy new year. May you finish your ongoing projects :lol: I have a simple question, as I would like to modify meshes from UI buttons: how does one access an external var from a MeshExpression? I can access an external function, but not an external var... They return 0. I made a ...

After a lot of testing, I just discovered the hard way that using glUniform3f to pass the light direction to shaders only works if the material used immediately before is using the same shader. So writing: glUniform3f(glGetUniformLocation(Shader_Boat.Handle, "lightDir"), v.x, v.y, v.z); gl...

Oh, I keep forgetting the unusual "empty UseMaterial" technique. Thanks a lot

Hello. I'm going to make quite a lot of skins for a single model, and I was wondering if I need to create a Material per Bitmap, or if I can hot-swap bitmaps on a single Material during the rendering of the scene. Is that possible? I tried a few things without success: <?xml version="1.0" ...