{"id":763,"date":"2011-01-29T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T07:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/?p=763"},"modified":"2011-01-29T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T07:01:37","slug":"the-island-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/01\/the-island-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Island Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's your Island Snapshot for the end of January.  Recently, we've been mostly working on things you can't see, but you may notice some subtler differences in terms of buildings \/ structures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/island_shot.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/island_shot-512x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"island_shot\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-764\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most obvious difference from the previous shot is the thicker atmosphere.  Ignacio changed the fog model; the fact that we have a bit more fog, combined with the art style we've converged on, should help us do high-quality LOD handling for distant objects.<\/p>\n<p>Your bonus picture for today is part of an indoor complex that I am very happy with.  This room is all white with a bit of colored glass.  Note the lovely lightmapping, even on such slapped-together geometry:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/room_shot.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/room_shot-512x288.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"room_shot\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-765\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s your Island Snapshot for the end of January. Recently, we&#8217;ve been mostly working on things you can&#8217;t see, but you may notice some subtler differences in terms of buildings \/ structures. The most obvious difference from the previous shot is the thicker atmosphere. Ignacio changed the fog model; the \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/2011\/01\/the-island-today-2\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-witness.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}