Star Trek - STVOY:Short Stories

Devlog

• Class 2 shuttle and Delta flyer control test
  November 06, 2023 by aalberik

  Shuttle control test when automatic hovering is active. It (should) make the near-to-terrain maneuvering and landing easier. Also analytic skylight shadow for the spacecrafts is added, adapted from In... Continue reading
• Finalizing the tutorial story - a screenshot with a tricorder and a borg sphere
  October 15, 2023 by aalberik

  Just a quick update and, yes, you can enter the sphere. Borg sphere from Download Borg Sphere 3D model by Maxpayn in MAX,PSR (trekmeshes.eu)... Continue reading

  
• First glimpse into the tutorial
  September 25, 2023 by aalberik

  This short story is built upon a holodeck program in which you can change the weather and the time of day. You can also try how to interact objects and drive space shuttles. This video demonstrates so... Continue reading
• More performance on Nvidia GPUs with UBOs
  September 16, 2023 by aalberik

  The application's rendering engine is based on a tiled forward solution so it needs (relatively) large lighting data buffers. The previous implementation used shader storage buffers (its full name: sh... Continue reading
• Delta Flyer HUD changes and a tutorial story
  September 09, 2023 by aalberik

  I1m planning to improve the Delta Flyer's HUD. Replace the text-based navigation instructions with graphic navigation symbols (arrows, cross-hair). I'm also planning to add a tutorial in which you can... Continue reading
• AMD GPUOpen - SPD
  August 28, 2023 by aalberik

  The project already integrated some of the GPUOpen technologies like AMD FidelityFX SUPER RESOLUTION v1.2, AMD LUMA PRESERVING MAPPER 1.2, AMD DepthOfFieldFX 1.0 Recently the AMD FidelityFX Single Pas... Continue reading
• Performance tuning and third-party update
  July 27, 2023 by aalberik

  Tow major issues were identified in the last month which will be addressed in the upcoming weeks: Performance: since shadows are a significant part of the engine's 3D renderer the CPU overhead was nee... Continue reading
• VkError: -8 bugfix
  June 18, 2023 by aalberik

  Bugfix: The application reported this message VkError: -8 line: 6379 func: Init2 . The cause was a "never say never" type of bug which is now fixed. Description: AMD FSR 1.0 may use explicit half floa... Continue reading
• STVOY:Short Stories landed on itch.io
  June 01, 2023 by aalberik

  Stardate -299583.6 (yes, its negative - we are in the future's past) It was a long and adventurous journey: adapt my simulation engine to this project dream a story which can come true simplify the st... Continue reading
• It's been a long road
  May 02, 2023 by aalberik

  This project started around 2018. I always wanted to make a sci-fi game in which the science and story are the dominant parts. After several ideas I came up with a walking simulator / adventure / spac... Continue reading