Sol-Ark (2D Space RTS/SandBox/Rogue-like) New video and devlog (23/06/2015) news

List of performed work:

• Fixed bugs:
• With impossibility of technics to fall into space after being transferred to an empty tile;
• With inability to destroy V.I. modules held by enemy soldiers;
• With an error for the technic’s "fuel pump" action algorithm;
• With inclusion of enemy ship’s brake in the absence of the engine;
• With error of the technic’s "gas collector" action algorithm;
• With wrong sized GUI elements in different screen resolutions;
• With wrong sized production/consumption/energy storage text fields;
• With the rate of collected fuel by the gas collector dependent on its distance from a gas giant;
• With incorrect names of certain types of equipment;
• With unnecessary calculation of the vertex buffer for drawing objects by the GPU;
• With summing the number of resources which add to the object "resource" on a tile where there is another resource object;
• With GPU rendering error with offset NPC and technnic sprite coordinates while turning;
• With offset of micromanagement map’s lit areas while changing the zoom;
• With inactive keys "turn on all technics" and "turn off technics with low priority";
• Other bugs;
• Ability to manually empty containers with resources was added;
• Algorithm for drawing map tiles using the GPU was added;
• Algorithm for rendering skeletal animation frames of NPC and technics with the GPU was added;
• Test algorithm for rendering light with the GPU was added;
• Test algorithm for rendering damaged tiles with the GPU was added;
• A new rendering algorithm using the GPU was added for sprites that change every frame;
• A new rendering algorithm using the GPU was added for geometric shapes that change every frame;
• Algorithm for uploading textures to GPU for rendering NPCs, technics and map tiles was added;
• Classes of technics, NPCs, map tiles and light sources were corrected for use of GPU rendering;
• Some GUI elements on the micromanagement map were adjusted;
• New class for changing the language of GUI elements was added;
• Ability to change the language of GUI elements and messages was added;
• New shaders for rendering objects on the micromanagement map were added;
• Algorithm was optimized for adding geometric shapes rendered by the GPU;
• Algorithm was optimized for updating sprite coordinates rendered using the GPU;
• Rendering of a location’s sprites on the local space map was optimized;
• Algorithm was optimized for creating new locations on a local space map;
• New helper classes for technic optimization and NPC actions were created;
• Work continues on the algorithm for saving the game;
• Work continues on optimization of rendering GUI elements with the GPU;
• Work continues on the visualization algorithm for the micromanagement map level by the GPU;
• Work continues on the first official teaser video for the game;
• New music tracks were created; work continues on voice, sound and music coverage for the teaser video;
• Work continues on polishing balance, fixing small errors and creating content for the first demo-version of the game to be released to a broad audience;
• Work continues on filling and polishing the GDD;