Irrlicht Engine

Added a link to the initial post

I got asked about a release date of the track editor on Steam so I think I need to continue work on it. I have not yet released a version, but I'd like to share a screenshot. The new version is based on Y.A.I.S.E., it's a separate branch in the repository so it's open source.
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Over the last few days I started work on porting MarbleGP to the Raspberry Pi, and it does already run. Ok, it has no sound yet, but the game generally runs, and it runs fine in Full HD on my Raspberry Pi 5. Once I'm done with the rest (some menu updates, sound, find out why the rostrum is not ...

MarbleGP is not my first project so I was aware of the fact that it will get big. In the beginning I used IrrEdit with an AddIn as editor, but I later switched to an editor of my own which sucks - that's why I never released it.

The most important thing is (imho) to keep things organized, and since ...

Yes, it's a bit annoying, but as this is no commercial service I keep calm and don't panic

I have created and uploaded a video where I show for the first time how I play at the moment: unfair. I kick many of the AI marbles off the track a lot of times th emake sure my two favorite marbles finish in 2nd and 3rd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9XtLfIj5b0 . I hope you like it

Btw: I'll ...

The only difference between the levels is the level of the AI marbles. As you pointed out in the video description "very hard" is all MarbleGP opponents. I have to admit that I also am not able to win against those when playing on the phone (at least with the touch controls), but on the PC or when ...

I have just released a new version of MarbleGP, I have added support for Track Packs. I am currently working on a track editor which will allow users to create new tracks and export them as track packs (which are just plain ZIP archives) to share them. The editor is not yet available (and it will ...

It seems that the marble in second place is still on the track. Maybe (happens from time to time) the AI is stuck somewhere. I have added a respawn for the AI some time ago if they get stuck, but this doesn't always work.

However if you go to the race result screen the deficit of the marbles which ...

Yes, it takes longer to decode text, but there are some other problems you can avoid this way (endianness for example). In MarbleGP the network messages are all text messages, numbers are encoded with base 64 (not base64 encoded :wink:). It works without problems, especially for network games with ...

It's always special cases . I am not that deep into shader programming, just hacked together mine, but now it works on an additional system. I think I may update the OpenGL-ES shaders in the same way, just to be consistent

I am limiting the framerate using the C++ 11 function std::sleep_until ( https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/sleep_until ), like this

Calculate the time the frame after the current should be drawn
Render current frame
Sleep until the time calculated above

Seems to work fine for me, but I am ...

It was a minimal change in the vertex shader. Before it was

vNormal = mat3(mWorld) * gl_Normal;

Which seemed to work fine, but mWorld is a 4x4 matrix, and the AMD implementation didn't like that so I had to add a method (taken from some place on the web):


mat3 mat3_emu(mat4 m4) {
return mat3 ...

Yesterday I received my Asus Rog Ally X so I was finally able to test MarbleGP on an AMD gfx chip, and it failed. This is now fixed. The shaders didn't compile at all, and while the NVidia and Intel drivers accepted the code AMD didn't. The new version is available on https://dustbin-online.de ...

I thing adding a link works fine if you include the "http(s)://" at the start of the line: https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005003665545158.html?gatewayAdapt=glo2deu .

At the moment I don't have time to play around with it, but I wanted to give porting MarbleGP (and the YAISE editor) to the ...