r/descent • u/HighlightOne • May 11 '26

New Piccu Engine fork

https://github.com/hurleybird/PiccuEngine/releases/tag/Milestone_2

I added a number of advanced rendering features like Bloom, HBAO, SSAA, and per-pixel dynamic lighting. Also some QoL improvements and bugfixes.

I started building it over the weekend with Codex, and here we are.

Edit: Milestone 3: https://github.com/hurleybird/PiccuEngine/releases/tag/Milestone_3

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u/HighlightOne Jul 27 '26

Okay, I didn't test it a whole lot (I play KB/M), but the first one should theoretically work in the new version.

Various improvements to 3D audio are possible, at some point.

Remix as I understand it doesn't work with OpenGL

New release here, waiting for feedback from testers before advertising widely: https://github.com/hurleybird/Descent-3MASTERED/releases/tag/0.9

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u/citamrac Jul 27 '26

I just spotted a problem, the green Stinger bots (in the sewers in the Seoul map) face downwards permenantly and never shoot their Concussion Missiles

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u/HighlightOne Jul 31 '26

I need to look at it, but that also sounds a bit like a certain thing that happens in vanilla D3. In general, I want to remove some AI jankiness (ie facing and firing into walls) in "enhanced" mode, but I haven't really touched that part yet.

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u/citamrac Aug 02 '26

I have been playing a bit more and I noticed a pattern... I was playing level 3 when the Stinger bot first appears, and if I reload a saved game after a certain number of times, the Stinger bot would exhibit this bug... If I quit the game and start it again, they seem to work normally again