End of December Update - Interpolation Progress

Hello everyone,

This post will be quite brief; unfortunately, due to some real life circumstances, not much work could be done on DORF this month. However, that isn't to say nothing has been accomplished. More progress has been made with the planned frame interpolation feature that Thomas has been working on.

As can be seen in the attached video, this will be instrumental in getting smoother movement out of vehicle and aircraft units. This doesn't just look better, but is also actually a huge boost in game performance, as this means that, with frames being smoothed out on the fly, the game will require less frames per unit sprite sheet, which means smaller sprite sheets, which means less VRAM consumed at runtime.

This will also be critical for the implementation of tilting sprites, so that aircraft can pitch and roll while in flight, and ground vehicles will tilt appropriately when moving along slopes. This could even have some additional uses, such as having ground vehicles pitch forward and back when accelerating and breaking, to give some extra realism to unit movement, and some land vehicles could also rock while firing or being hit by heavy ordnance. See this previous update post for more information about this feature: https://www.patreon.com/posts/end-of-september-113115946

Note that there are some errors with the above videos, such as a mild warbling effect to unit movement, and a strange flicker on the Halftrack; this system is still a work in progress, and all these problems will eventually be ironed out.

That's all for this month; thankfully, things will be less busy in January, which means more work can and will be done for DORF. I've also decided to make this post fully public, since we do have some free members that should get a chance to see what is being worked on from time to time.

Thank you all for your continued support.