User:Jonathan

Jonathan is the name my parents gave me. My last name is a bit of a mystery for most of you, which is good for my security.

Profile on the forum.

Things I've coded for Armagetron

Headlights

This is basically how it went:

1. While playing with chatbot code I found that sensors screwed up at borders. I visualized it with basic colored OpenGL lines, and it looked sort of like lighting. It was very slow due to the large number of sensors.
2. z-man made headlights based on it. It performed much better because it had less sensors in a smaller area, but still wasn't exactly fast. The lighting was also still as unrealistic.
3. I wrote a little fragment program for more realistic lighting, used a triangle fan instead of lines, and reduced the number of sensors further. Performance is now often acceptable, and it looks much better.

Forum links

• Main thread with screenshots:

  bound.png [post]

  The sensor problem.

  headlight1.png headlight2.png headlight3.png [post] by z-man

  Headlights are born.

  screenshot_8.png [post] by k

  Rotating search lights which didn't make it.

  16bots_16fps.png [post]

  Self-explanatory.

  improved_lights.png [post]

  First screenshot of lights of the current generation.

  17lights.png [post]

  A lot shinier than 16bots_16fps.png, and faster too. Later in the round the framerate difference only grows.

  floornormal.png [post]

  Not a true normal.

  screenshot_1.png screenshot_2.png screenshot_3.png [post] by nemostultae

  Without fragment program support, but with existent functions, the lights are drawn as a solid color.

HUD map

Originally a small experiment, but everyone wanted it, so I posted the source.

Forum links

• First appearance with later in the thread a screenshot [post].
• Main thread with screenshots:

  twomaps.png [post]

  Both a large map in the center of the screen and the usual small map in the corner.

  600maps.png [post]

  30 by 20 tiny maps. Framerates were good enough to play, yet playing was tricky.

  screenshot_32.png screenshot_33.png [post] by Lucifer

  Black map, but not in menu. I assumed lighting and texturing to be off, but apparently sometimes something leaves them on.

Significant wiki contributions

Elaborate color explanation

This article explains exactly what happens to player colors, unlike the common rough estimation.

Forum links 2

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