Two words: Awe some!

Pics or it didn't happen!


They are set manually. Mostly to achieve custom ambient/temperature/fog gradients depending on the mood you want in your level. Computing this at runtime would also cost a lot of performance, and that's simply not worth it.

Edit: By the way, happy belated birthday!

By the way, we've finally updated our website
New texts, screenshots, and awesomeness! Except of the features site... Because we are lazy bastards and that requires making screenshots and we are busy watching the sun :3

There is also a new blog post explaining where Rayne is going in the future: http://rayne3d.com/blog/01-23-2014-the-state-of-rayne-and-its-future

Great progress you're making there, this looks extremely promising.
From what I've seen so far, this seems exactly what the market is missing: A modern, powerful yet lightweight alternative both to open source graphics libraries like Irrlicht and Ogre3D as well as to expensive and/or inflexible, rigid packages like Unity, UDK and, well, Acknex.
Looking forward to weekly updates, and I'd totally love it if these would get quite technical.

(btw, the sentence "The techdemo however will require a level editor, which is also something we are working." lacks an "on" at the end, just mentioning it because it really stands out regarding the otherwise extremely enjoyable writing style :))

Thanks! That's exactly what we are going for

We are currently busy writing lots and lots of documentation and cleaning up old pieces of the codebase. That limits us a tiny bit in regards to what we can show, because, well, there isn't much new stuff getting added, but hopefully that makes the next release much much easier to use for everyone (and pushes the API a bit more into a stable direction).

However, we can't not have a new screenshot, so here is something that wasn't possible before, but is possible now thanks to the refactoring of materials:

(PS: This kills the framerate)

what's up with the black-red-yellow-white lines?

It's our way of patriotism: By default, Rayne will render the German flag in the background.

(Might just be the Skycube and atmospheric scattering though... No one knows, it runs on magic, you can't explain these things)

Question (digging through the first 14 pages of this thread and nearly all of your blog posts and feature lists didn't deliver the desired answer so I figured it'd be quicker to just ask here):

Is there audio yet?

Not using Black-White-Red, are you even a patriot...

Uhh... that comment might get misinterpreted badly (and here I was thinking my comment was already close to the edge).


Yes! Well, not directly in the published version, but we do have an OpenAL wrapper and OggVorbis resource loader module that we wrote for Occluded. They need some de-dusting and cleanup, which is why we haven't packaged them yet, but the long answer is: Yes, audio is there.

I just downloaded the last update. Could you include the version number in your 7z file? That'd be cool. And still there is no link on your page to the documentation!