Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Last WinQuake for Today

Can you feel the awesomeness? Can you? Can you feel it?



OK, it's just cheesy stippling to get that alpha effect on the status bar, but all the same, it brings WinQuake into line with the expected look these days. I could I suppose go with a 32bit backbuffer and do proper alpha, but it would mean having to rewrite all the drawing functions (and losing a lot of performance), so cheesy stippled alpha it is.

Note the better looking crosshair as well. No reason why other crosshair options couldn't also be made available here.

2 comments:

Nyarlathotep said...

Any chance that a more "true" alpha could be implemented as an option? I'd expect modern SIMD instructions could speed things up rather nicely over the i586 instructions Carmack & co. had to work with in 1996...

mhquake said...

It could quite probably be done, but I won't be the one who does it as this isn't a serious project for me, just a fun diversion.