Update adds:
- shading to the reflective surfaces.
- jitter to the light source to cast poor mans 1bit “soft” shadows.
- remove redundant square route from inner loop.
Bit-Hacks Pixel Dungeon
Development log from the bit-hack
Update adds:
Bit-Hacks Pixel Dungeon 
Based on your last source code post you can take advantage of SSE on intel when compiling with GCC.
On linux (Ubuntu) install SDL with:
sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
Then in the source change:
– remove #include
wherever you construct temporaries with your vec3’s, you need to give the constructor/function definitions const for those temp params or create actual temporaries for them. eg: sSphere(vec3 ¢er, float r ) needs to become sSphere( const vec3 ¢er, float r )
or GCC will complain a lot. There are a few instancies of this.. I am sure you can find them.
This is because gcc doesn’t like constructing sSphere like sSphere(vec3(stuff)blah..)
– _InterlockedIncrement( &threads ); should be replaced with __sync_fetch_and_add(&threads, 1);
– _InterlockedDecrement( &threads ); should be replaced with __sync_fetch_and_sub(&threads, 1);
Then build it with:
g++ -O3 -msse4 -I/usr/include/SDL/ main.cpp -o out -L/usr/lib -lSDL
run with ./out
Test it by chaging the vidSize to 1080 ish.
Seem to get decient fps by turning on sse4 at that resolution, -O3 on the compiler helps a lot too becasue it removes all the redundant load calls between sse instructions I think.
Also change scale back to 1