I've been slowly implementing firing pottery mechanic and it's wild how different it is from the existing crafting mechanic, which makes me tired of writing tons of new ad-hoc code but also reminds me that ad-hoc stuff is what actually makes the game interesting and deep

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I'm planning to do a huge re-working of all systems related to resources, materials, hauling, logistics, etc soon, and one part of it is hauling several items at once. Look at these silly fellas moving a brick pile one brick at a time 😭

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Aaaand yet another tree type! Its wood is pretty much useless, but they produce more sticks than other trees. Can you guess what tree it is? 😊

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Just a little camp by the river, a few hours before sunrise

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I'm patenting my cloud generation algorithm, codename: RAVIOLLI

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First tests with splatting cloud particles into a 1k texture and sampling it to generate the final clouds mesh. Particle sizes are intentionally small for testing, funny how they look like little pieces of dough 😅

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River generation progress: fixed the "aqueducts" and weird mountain cutoffs, added occasional sand river banks. Still got a ton of issues to solve, though 😅

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Added plots for seasonal temperature & precipitation over the selected point on the map (left side of the screen)! It's cool how some areas have +/- uniform precipitation while others have their true monsoon seasons. The temperature curve looks the same everywhere though...

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OK, distraction project is over, I'm back to the village building game. Notice anything strange? I think my sun shader is subtly off... 😅

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Aaaaalmost finished with the water stuff. Right now debugging why frustum culling, while working perfectly for the terrain chunks, fails for the water chunks...

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I think the new chunk-based water simulation is almost done! Still need to deactivate stale chunks & update the lower LODs, but the base sim works perfectly now, integrated with water bodies created by the world generator.

One 16x16 water chunk takes ~3us to update, so I can update, say, 300 of these in under 1ms, which is pretty great. I was planning to optimize it further with SIMD, but I guess I'll postpone that a bit, it already runs fast enough.

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I'm not 100% sure but there might be a tiny bug somewhere in here... Last time I checked pouring a bucket of water didn't create tsunami 😅

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Sometimes when I'm working on the game it generates some crazy map and I get instantly distracted and just fly around enjoying it

Like look at this huge awesome bay, the entrace split in two by an island 🤩

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So I've finished a huge refactoring and everything works exactly as it did before and everything looks completely normal

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I've been refactoring a lot in preparation to more work on the water system, and here's the state I'm at right now 😅

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Sooo initially the idea was that stone paths and similar floorings make movement faster. Now I've noticed that moving on them is actually slower.

The thing is, I haven't even started implementing this mechanic yet... 🤣

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Finished refactoring water rendering to use the same chunk-based LOD system as the terrain, with frustum culling and async loading and stuff. No more missing chunks & holes & flickering, everything works smoothly! 🥰

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My dynamic water system is currently somewhat independent of the large-scale water created at world generation, which leads to some fun stuff like creating a layer of water...underneath existing water 😅

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Something's not quite right here...

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First tests with large-scale water (just rendering, no simulation ofc). Pretty much everything's terrible, a lot of work ahead 😅

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For optimization, I don't want to simulate water in a steady state (e.g. this lake), but a flat water surface is boring. So I made the vertex shader add random periodic offsets based on vertex pos hash and it seems to do the trick 🥰

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Love modern graphics APIs! Need access to neighbouring vertices in the vertex shader? Just replace vertex buffer with a read-only-storage buffer and everything works 😂

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Realized I can use dual-source blending to implement proper absorption for water rendering (needs separate per-channel alpha values, thus dual-source). That's probably an unnecessary complication, but imo it looks much better, so, whatever, we roll

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My water simulation method (virtual pipes) is incredibly stable, but it too suffers from the CFL condition, and behaves really creepy when I increase the simulation dt by a factor of 16 👻

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Chickens now lay eggs! By default they just drop these on the ground, but you can build some nests which they will use instead. The animation needs some tweaking though 😅

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Still not happy with my weather simulation. Hard to balance interesting moment-to-moment behavior vs predictable average climate (important for game design).

Guess I'll put it aside for now and return to it after I make the goddamn devlog, lol

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Accidentally pushed one atmo simulation slider to extreme value and thought it's sorta neat, so here have a result while I finish some more gui.

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Mossfield Origins is part of Steam Strategy Fest 2023, you can see it & dozens of other strategic thinking style games on sale/demos/coming soon 🍂

View them all here https://store.steampowered.com/category/strategy

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New Video: Pepper & Carrot Gamejam 2023 Recap - 10 games in less than 5 minutes.
Thanks again to @brettmakesgames for organising it, and (many) thanks to all the participants. 😻

Ptb: https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/w/fo4Udw77tSYaQQhXrpP7Y3
Ytb: https://youtu.be/1AsvqyofhWA

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