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hi @Pauli, very interesting. Would you like to tell us more technical details on how you achieved this, perhaps in a separate topic?
GIMP , GNU Image Manipulation Tool , it comes shipped with some Linux distros , btw nice work & good luck 
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I use this one myself, as its probably one of the more feature-complete ones. That said, it does have a bit of a learning curve compared to, say, Paint.NET on Windows.
Some screenshots of my current project.
Itās a retro shooter inspired by the System Shock series.
Iām doing all level geometry with my custom level editor. This helped me find lots of bugs and improvements I want to fix before doing more levels.
Edit: hereās a playable build: Dropbox - abyss-of-the-void.jar - Simplify your life
Hey guys,
as some of you know, Iām working on a Java Vulkan engine from time to time.
So first of all I wanted to ask if itās fine that I keep posting updates / progress here, as itās not directly related to jME, since itās obviously another engine. However, it would be a lie to say my work wasnāt heavily inspired by jME and I know some of the folks here asked me for updates, so I will quickly share a few. If the monthly screenshot thread is not the place for this kind of content, please let me know. 
ā¦ it would look way cooler in a video, but I didnāt have time to record and upload one.
New features:
)))So far, Iām really happy with the progress - But there is still a ton of work to do before I would consider it a mature code basis. I still learn new things about Vulkan every time I touch something, leading to more and more refactorings and to-do-list-entries. The optimization possibilities are endless, but itās hard to offer them in a generic way (as the whole point of Vulkan is actually to offer low-level stuff so you can customize it for your game). In any case, Iām excited how the project evolves.
Itās actually quite simple, because I implemented a basic animation system where a model is just a regular part of the scene graph (node = bone). That way I can use all the standard scene graph / vector methods without thinking too much about matrices and stuff (but without features like weighted mesh deformation at this point).
The leg IK is then just a matter of calculating the hip / knee / foot locations and let the limbs look at the end points.
I personally love seeing the updates.
Yeah, Iāve heard of GIMP. Donāt you need a starting image for it though?
Also, does jme support scalable vectors?
You can start painting from zero , just like photoshop CC , but this would be an open source software ,
What do you mean by Scalable vectors , there are vec.add(vec) , subtract , scaleAdd which multiples by scalar & add the new vector & you can simply scale a vector by multiplying itās Components x , y , z by a scaleFactor of choice.
codex mean vector graphic, i only know TTF font that do so i suppose
Scalable Vector Graphics (svg) Iām pretty sure is a way of storing an image using vectors. Although I donāt know much about it, I do know that a game called Xmoto (
) uses it for itās levels (which can get very large) because it happens to be pretty effecient. I could be wrong about it though.
it depend on games, Mesh vertex locations are not so āinaccurateā as āpixelsā.
SVG was used to avoid scale issue that happends that pixel graphic have.
So if you need it for 2D scaling graphic, it make sense to avoid pixel scaling issue.
