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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Do not go gentle into that good night... (bring considerably bigger ship)

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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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So, that’s many new systems working in unison for a very simple player driven mission. However, of course, everything is robust to allow for a lot of fun later. Visually, many things are WIP, don’t worry.

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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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Lot of work done on system for manually deploying agents. Video about how that gameplay works from setup to finish coming soon.

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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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please help me report these abusive harassing Steam reviews (that ridicule my SA) made to my games. steam moderators cleared them as acceptable (so i can’t flag them) but i don’t think calling me a slur & bringing up my r*pist is an acceptable review.

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198529297258/recommended/354130/

https://steamcommunity.com/id/Luceres/recommended/2431510/

i don’t mean to make this a bigger thing than it is but i’m tired of this… and how these being cleared signals that Valve might think this is ok. it’s not.

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Logo is displayed when scanning building owned by known institution. Fun fact, institutions can own buildings outside of their region/country. Ghost labs & covert sites are absolutely on the table.

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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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Guess even Tier 1 U.S. patrols mean business. I just wanted to get some observation data in peace.

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Two Stryker variants doing their job.

Now please excuse me while I get ready for some BF6.

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After a late start a tiny game of a black cat might be forming after all 😀

PS. there is still a lot to go but it might look familiar to some - that's probably not a coincidence.

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Heavy beam subtype, slow charge up, slow tracking (especially when firing), better range, brutal dps and nice swirly effect as a bonus.

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water and evil water

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wip (water in progress)

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WE HAVE ALMOST SAVED GAMING.
Or have we? Can we still save it?

All it would have taken was a million signatures from EU citizens.

Don't we have a million gamers in the EU who are eligible to vote?

Here's probably the last update from #StopKillingGames :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo

https://StopKillingGames.com

Have you signed yet?

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The end of Stop Killing Games

The full scoop on Stop Killing Games! Covers past, present, and future.Link to European Citizens' Initiative:https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/ho...

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Anybody looking for a junior 3D character artist for remote work or an internship?

#gamedev people?

Asking for a friend ;)

I'm sharing some of his work. He's making beautiful stylized character models. He also rigs and animates them.

If you're interested, shoot me a direct message, I'll give you contact information 😀

All done with #Blender!

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my custom made 3x5 font—only problem is, 0 and O look exactly the same :BlobhajShock:

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Born from desperation, the Specter-X1 was the unified Western bloc’s answer to the invasion. It became the first mass produced aircraft to wield energy weapons and harness engines powered by reverse engineered extraterrestrial technology.

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Why is Blender in Financial Trouble?
—Film Stop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1FcYknxEY0

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Why is Blender in Financial Trouble?

Donate to the Blender Fund - https://fund.blender.org/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=film_stop_D1FcYknxEY0Hope y'all enjoyed this video!

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"How much overdraw is there?"
"Yes"

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Making game with "ufos" without crash sites is probably illegal, so:

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