Ok, great. Wonder if i can increase the draw distance further... No problem, I just assumed it would render in the strange 3X format, but it turns out it acutally renders in native res, which is a very good thing. 1080p must be pretty amazing for such a small device, would love to see it running on it. Well, one day I guess...
Well Fugl is very simple render-wise, with very few state changes, so it didn't do a lot since I'm bandwidth bound anyhow. But it opens up some possibilites for further optimizations and instanced drawing was much quicker (hence the 3X animals). Now i just need to make the animals move a little smarter, and it will be very fun just to watch. I have some ideas in that department...
I loaded the latest build on my iPad Air 2 (hadn't touched it in a week or so ... ahh, the iPhone 6S Plus is so lovely!) and Fugl is as smooth as glass, as smooth as it ever was. Even while it was rendering out the other biomes there was no slowdown whatsoever. I played across 4-5 biomes for 25 mins and I saw no slowdown ever. I'm not sure what the other poster here was seeing on his iPad. (And I don't have multitasking shut off.) I do prefer the experience on the iPad more than the iPhone, just because the larger screen makes for deeper immersion. So, I was flying in the canyon and taking in the sights of the clouds shadowing the walls and hearing the much improved animal sounds and noticing all these thing happening. I then landed on a tiny island in the middle of an open water area and just looked around and listened. Wow - the world has really come alive. I felt "right there" in that biome that feels so very alive. It's a magical experience. Fugl has headed in so very right a direction over the past year. It's wonderful. (Canyon is still my favorite. ) bp
Ok, good to hear. My latest build is a little more optimized and I'm working on some further optimizations like collapsing similar voxel faces (greedy meshing). Yeah absolutely, but it's pretty ok on an iPhone6 screen also. Thank you, that's the feeling I'm aiming for. I'm currently working on enhancing that further with general ambience sounds and more interesting animals behaviour (like the predatory birds will go after fish and animals on the ground and flee you). Did you try with headphones? The 3D sound is pretty cool.... Yeah, and I've worked on it some more since last version, trying to get those caves just right. I also redid the mountain biome as I was never very happy with it. Now it looks more like the "Frozen"-version of Norway, haha!
Did you adjust the colors again? I loved the original orange-ish color of the Canyons, then I noticed the coloring went more towards a pink in an update. I quite preferred the orange, but now it seems the color is somewhere in the middle, and I'm liking it. ...or am I just seeing things? Also, the Cave is _way_ better than it was originally, now. bp
Haven't tocuhed those in a long time, but of course the colors are a bit procedural, and they will be re-generated every time you start up Fugl. Thanks, it was a huge rewrite!
loving the new biome! will you add diferent colored sky to go with it? Edit : if you google : "zangarmarsh from above" in the pictures, maybe you will find some more inspiration towards this biome's final form
0.8.1.7 is out! New stuff: Completely revamped Mountain-biome (inspired by Norway!) 100 % faster tesselation Tweeked canyon biome (more caves) Biome specific ambience sounds Shorter startup-time Bird shadow is back It's at the website for UDID-testers, Testflight is processing now (could take an hour or two or more)... Next release I'm fixing the crashing that might happen when generating the levels. Turns out loading all the sounds and models at startup was a very bad idea! Also more animals, more interesting movement and more biomes!
I'm running the most recent update of fugl: Getting an immediate crash with a notice in the middle of the screen saying if game crashes due to low memory... It crashes too quickly for me to read the notice. iPad Air 1 running iOS 8.0.2
Just tried this, when I first opened it it showed the loading bar and loaded for about 25 seconds then crashed, I tried again, the notice appears for a brief second and it crashes again. Same problem as before.
I attach a couple of images where it looks like the bird tail got stuck somewhere. Then when I start walking the tail was few cms away. After that the whole bird turned into a flat thing and then the game crashed.
