Outlining Post Process

I've been working on the (temporary simplified) screen where you select a ship.  Currently when you click a ray is cast into the scene's physics space and the first entity hit is pulled back.  That's the one you clicked on, basically.

To visually implement this I had simply tinted the selected entity red when it was drawn (from the model rendering shader):

 if (isSelected)
  output.Color.r = output.Color.r * 2;

Clearly that was a bit... simplistic, though it was enough at the time and it worked.  But now I needed something a little better.

Temporary 'Hangar' Screen

In working towards something vaguely playable, I've fleshed out the screen you get after logging in, the 'Hangar' screen.  Here you'll pick a ship type, then you'll be able to move on to actual gameplay.

When a client connects to the Hangar 'zone', the server gives it the entity list.  For now, there are three items (well, one is a group):  a destroyer, a corvette and a fighter squadron.  These are all synced from the server, so this list can easily change without any changes to the client.

Further Client Server Syncing

So last night I got basic synchronization between the client and server working.  Basically I had the server starting a zone, creating a single entity (a small spaceship) and forcing it to slowly rotate.



When the object was issued a command that updated it's attributes that data was then sent to any clients connected to the zone (GAMEOBJECT_UPDATE_MESSAGE).