Posted version 0.99l, Android version with touch support and big hardware accelerated version improvements
The two big changes in version 0.99l is adding support for Android devices, including some rudimentary touch support (see below) and a big performance improvement in the 3D hardware accelerated versions. In addition a small performance improvement for the SDL software rendering versions was made to avoid unnecessary palette updates.
The Android version is mainly designed with gamepad support in mind (and really mostly tested with the OUYA microconsole though i also tested it a bit with Nvidia Shield) but i decided to try and add some rudimentary touch controls. There is not any sort of visual feedback for the controls (which would clutter the screen anyway) but the control scheme is rather simple:
Important to note that at the moment (and probably not any time soon) there is no support for resuming the game if it loses focus: if you switch away from the game (e.g. press the back button), the game will exit and you'll have to start from scratch.The 3D hardware acceleration improvement was done by batching the triangles to render per texture. Previously the 3D hardware accelerated backends were drawing each triangle one by one like the software rendering version but this had overhead in slower hardware... and AMD's Windows OpenGL driver which now is about 17 times faster than previously (for comparison Mesa under Linux on the same GPU barely saw any difference). The Direct3D version should now be playable even on something like a Pentium 133MHz with a 3DFX Voodoo 1 accelerator.
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Post Apocalyptic Petra
3D adventure/platformer. A computer wakes you up inside a broken down facility...
Status | Released |
Author | Bad Sector |
Genre | Adventure, Puzzle |
Tags | 3D Platformer, DOS, Female Protagonist, Low-poly, Moddable, Non violent, Post-apocalyptic, Sci-fi, Third Person |
Languages | English |
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- Petra Engine now its own thingJul 25, 2022
- Added an archive file for all downloadsJul 25, 2022
- Version 0.99o is out, some big improvements for the DOS and Windows versionsJun 02, 2022
- Piece Model EditorNov 01, 2021
- Added ARM Linux build for Raspberry PiSep 12, 2021
- Fix for S3 Virge, should work for real now...Jun 30, 2021
- Posted version 0.99n, major sound improvements, also better performance and S3 V...Jun 12, 2021
- Added DOS floppy disk imageApr 20, 2021
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