Terrain shader
After hard work and lots of highly addicted "Studenac", programming department finally managed to finish the Terrain Shader. Terrain Shader can blend up to 5 layers thru one mask texture, with each channel representing blend mask between two adjacent layers. Apart from that, it also supports up to two shade texture, applied after all layers have been calculated. These are mostly used for detail textures and/or lightmaps. Great thing is that on new PC hardware this shader is rendered in only one pass, which provides performance speed. Unfortunately, not on the Xbox.

Enemy spawner
Enemy Spawner is now more functional and, in conjunction with Serious Macro Scripting, is becoming very powerful tool for creating playability. Scripting of fights is now more simpler, while having more options to allow for creating even more frentic action.

Parallax Mapping
We now have Parallax Mapping implemented. We are sure you all know what Parallax Mapping is. But, just in case here is what our programmer Den has to say about it: "Parallax mapping is a nice fake of displacement mapping technique. Instead of creating actual geometry, it rather offsets texture mapping in a way that surface looks very bumpy. Nice." When asked what's the purpose of it, Den added: "Unreal Engine has it, so we now also have it." This reminded us of Sky's now most quoted sentence from the interview with GameSpot: "Our new engine will have all the features that exist and that will exist in the world!".

Croatia gets OK from EU
Finally, Croatia got a positive avis from EU. This is currently the biggest news in Croatia. This means that in the next couple of years Croatia would be able to get a chance to talk with EU's "Big Strong Boys" about joining EU. It's still a debate here in our offices which is to happen first: "Serious Sam 5" for PlayStation 4 or Croatia joining EU.