n30: Rusty Vangers

Author: kvark

content/news/030/index.md

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 ## Game Updates
 
+### [Rusty Vangers]
+
+![Rust engine powering original game](vangers-integrated.jpg)
+_Rusty Vangers engine in action within the original game_
+
+[Rusty Vangers] by [@kvark] is a modern re-implementation of the original
+[Vangers] game from the last century.
+It's in Rust, and uses GPU and multiple threads heavily.
+
+Something incredible has been brewing within the small by dedicated community
+of the original game. They prototyped a pluggable rendering interface in order
+to support rendering the game via [Rusty Vangers] instead of the default
+CPU-based rasterizer. The plugin is made as a static library sub-crate with a
+bunch of C-exported functions.
+Basic concept worked on the terrain, and the mini working group transitioned
+to moving more visual features off the old path and into the Rust-based plugin.
+
+At the same time, [Rusty Vangers] engine got a number of important
+fixes and additions:
+
+- water is rendered fair as transparent surfaces
+- lighting evaluation on the second layer is fixed
+- dynamic terrain and palette modification is supported
+- custom viewport support
+- can render menu screens, not just the game levels
+
+[Rusty Vangers]: https://vange.rs
+[Vangers]: https://www.gog.com/en/game/vangers
+[@kvark]: https://github.com/kvark/
+
 ## Engine Updates
 
 ## Learning Material Updates