Ok. I add this, because it was literally one line of code (since the gltf has a minx max for its primitive buffer). And thanks for that, because it really made a huge difference (30-60 now). Appreciate the tip.
This why I kinda wasnt overly worried. Theres alot of things you can do in need of improving how something renders. But for a simple fix like that. Too nice. 
The alpha mask issues were really annoying me. Now the carparks and trees look right
Nothing’s changed. We still have a debug flag, which enables logging.
In terms of “building”, you will get an engine from the extender server. And we use a release app manifest to control which extra helper libraries should get added to the engine: engine_service (web server), profiler and recorder.
However, all compilation/linking is still done with /O2, so they’re all optimized, and they have the same performance. It’s part of our philosophy, to have good performance throughout the entire dev cycle.
I hope this helps clear things up.
Thanks. I must be getting old and senile
Setting Default Texture Min Filter to linear mipmap linear, should clean up the image quality and also improve performance (assuming mips are also generated). Looking great so far though, most advanced 3D I’ve seen in Defold so far.
Its not running any AA or sampling. Again, not really concerned. Function first
Remind me again, which UI framework are you using? It was something other than Dear ImGui right?
Nuklear - GitHub - dlannan/defold-nuklear
Ive made this initial extension for it. It doesnt do any hw accel (it can, but Im using CPU based buffer rendering). The main reason I use it is that I had problems with imGui running drawing commands in html. I think it has some nicer features, but its also missing some things imgui has (which Im putting in the extension).
Little update. Have taken a little longer due to the addition of embedding a web server so I can interrogate the tiny-ecs entities while running. Sample screeny.
WIll make a tiny-ecs extension project sometime soon in case people are interested in it.
So it’s something you can use to make an in-game cutscene?
Yeah. sorta You will be able to make movies with it for sure. But its a little more weird, because you can develop movie like scripts (Acts, Scenes etc) but with branching and event based control. So another output will be an exe (this wont be available on mobile, it will have a runtime server that you will publish to), and run the exe, and have people interact with the movie in a number of forms (key input, movement, voice etc) - these are stretch goals btw, but features I have implemented previously in ptt’s.
Hope that makes sense. For budding movie creators, and maybe youtube and similar content creators wanting to develop a script with camera controls, entity control and script movie flow for scenes, it will be a handy prototyping tool (I hope! ). Will be getting it in the hands of some script writers I know.
Flix will also be able to output an actual script (in movie script formats) with the video. So as to make peoples potential marketing of their movie ideas much easier too. Its a very niche space.
This will be the free application. The commercial one I will be selling to procedural training companies that have a need for a tool like this to be able to train people in tasks. Mostly in safety, hazard, mining, and mill type training applications.
Another update. Lots done on the ecs side, with entity control and management almost complete. The Acts and Director should be functional tomorrow, so I should be able to make my first movie on the weekend (might put in some nicer assets ).
Very happy with progress tho. And I think people will like the ecs extension once I package that up.
Note: I should point out the Tiny ECS debugger is a live tool. It updates roughly every second, and allows editing and monitoring of the ecs world - and I really should get an artist to make it look nice once its ready for consumption
Ok. Very quick update. Close to making first movie.
Added @d954mas and @astrochili excellent illumination and new illumination package:
< GitHub - astrochili/defold-illumination: Ready-to-use forward shading lighting extension for Defold >
< GitHub - d954mas/defold-illumination-new >
This means lights and shadows are going to be a little better (still integrating with my pbr).
This must be the one and only M1! We have one in Cracow 
This is impressive!
I need to cred the free 3D models Im using too (there will be attrib in the app)
Really quite awesome low poly models. They needed some treatment in blender (scaling, and other things) but otherwise quite excellent. There will be many of these available in flix (Im removing the commercial ones).
Also looking at replacing the shadow method. Probably will implement my own shadows solve for large volumes. For people interested in this is a great reference:
< GitHub - Flix01/Tiny-OpenGL-Shadow-Mapping-Examples: Compact OpenGL Shadow Mapping Examples in a single compilation unit >
Uggh. Side tracked. While looking for some old file on the numerous usb drives I have I decided, I need to catalog my drives. And I cant find any decent cataloger that is simple and just indexes the filenames + size + folder, assigns to a drive/catalog name then is searchable (easily).
I decided, Im going to make one. Shouldnt be more than a day. Not sure I’ll use defold, although I added a sqlitedb extension which is what I want to use, and I want cross platform too. Not sure nuklear or imgui will suit tho.
I’ll finish off what Im doing today (making some vids etc) then get that sorted and start the indexing of the drives. Its annoying not being able to file a file you know you have somewhere
< update > strike that. just found VVV and it looks pretty good. moving on. < Virtual Volumes View >
Videos not done. Too much other things happening atm. It would be nice to lock myself away in a room for a month… then I could get things done
Will be working on some other bits this weekend (some crypto stuff for a friend). Will be back to post some videos on Monday. Or thats the plan… will see.
I wanted to update. Again, life intervenes New puppy… job… and many other elements taking my time away from this. I hope to get some more done over the coming weeks. But its going to be slow now. Have also been updating Tiny ECS and defold-nuklear for other projects (I have two games to try and spend some time on as well).
Some notes.
So next major update should be animation and act commands/timelines working with the ability to record and playback scenes.
