As usual, get it here:
Engine Test Build - Mythruna Wiki
Full change log is here:
20111017 Release Notes - Mythruna Wiki
Highlights:
normen said:
Weee, Pine trees!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg
http://www.visitantesfc.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/trollface.jpg
And for those not following along at home:
Beautiful pictures :o. The first picture one reminds me the good times of Final Fantasy Tatics 
(but in a three-dimensional look of course xD).
Very pretty 
1up. How do you manage to have so many trees in the scene without loosing much framerate? Good looking vegetation makes a huge difference for the games impression.
What more impresses me is the framerate. It’s above 100 :). Does it use an additional hardware acceleration feature?
It’s not so different than the regular trees… in fact, block for block, the pine trees use fewer polys than the other trees. It’s just that they are usually bigger since they can get up to almost 20 meters tall. So there are a lot more blocks in the large pine tree.
100+ FPS is on my GTX 460 with the game at 192 meter clip. For the most part they are just textured and lit triangles like everything else.
The pine trees do slow things down a little I think… at least that’s my impression. But as I said, they have a lot more blocks. I also upped the number of trees generated per area… and that’s probably the biggest impact. If I ever come up with a clever way to do LOD for the really far trees then that might help. With the way I batch things, it’s kind of tricky.
…but they look really nice. I’m willing to do what it takes to keep them.
That first screenshot from a distance really looks incredible
those pictures remind me of that dump i took last night
wezrule said:
those pictures remind me of that dump i took last night
lol, i meant that in a good way!!, it was a good dump lol, wtf im getting thumbs downed for 
wezrule said:
lol, i meant that in a good way!!, it was a good dump lol, wtf im getting thumbs downed for :(
wezrule said:
lol, i meant that in a good way!!, it was a good dump lol, wtf im getting thumbs downed for :(
wezrule said:
lol, i meant that in a good way!!, it was a good dump lol, wtf im getting thumbs downed for :(
toilet humor is the best tho :(, guess ill learn for next time, sorry :(. Lemme try again:
Those pictures are pretty beautiful btw
Glad you recanted, @wezrule
There’s now a place to go for incidents like this btw 
http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/groups/free-announcements/forum/topic/the-ive-been-offended-by-wezrule-but-still-love-him-anyway-thread/
sbook said:
Because usually when things like that are said some poor kid'd father is talking about their baseball skills and inflicting years of emotional distress.
pspeed said:
Skye, that was awfully specific. Do you have issues yet to be resolved? :)
