My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now!

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/

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My blog post about how software rendered depth based occlusion culling in Block Game functions is out now!

https://enikofox.com/posts/software-rendered-occlusion-culling-in-block-game/

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Adding heights to the landscape adds a lot to the feel of these little puzzle levels, and I'm happy with how the procedural terrain turned out. It feels more and more like a proper game.
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added crude fence blocks to block game!

they still have a full block hitbox atm but they sure do make things look nice and cozy :3

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Adding heights to the landscape adds a lot to the feel of these little puzzle levels, and I'm happy with how the procedural terrain turned out. It feels more and more like a proper game.
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new (bi)weekly block game thread cause doors are done! \o/

not only are doors 2 blocks tall now, there's a generic system to create up to 16x16x16 multi-block structures just by specifying the positions and blocks in json

anyway, doors make a huge difference to the game's feel. with doors and tables and such these shacks are starting to feel like real houses

edit: correction, structures can be 32x32x32 because each axis is -16 to +15

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I hope traditional roguelike fans who follow me here have been following the progress I've boosted here and there about @josemachete79's ZAngband variant 'ZMAngband' he's been working on based on the original red box D&D rules.

Go to https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband07me and grab a copy to try out yourself - it's a blast!

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I hope traditional roguelike fans who follow me here have been following the progress I've boosted here and there about @josemachete79's ZAngband variant 'ZMAngband' he's been working on based on the original red box D&D rules.

Go to https://jose-machete.itch.io/zmangband07me and grab a copy to try out yourself - it's a blast!

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I messed up my chunk coordinates and accidentally stacked all chunks together. Who wants a piece of world cake?

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I messed up my chunk coordinates and accidentally stacked all chunks together. Who wants a piece of world cake?

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okay i've modelled and pixelled bushes that aren't just leaf blocks and yeah, this is looking nice and lush now! you can also walk through bushes as requested, and you can still break them for sticks for torches

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okay i've modelled and pixelled bushes that aren't just leaf blocks and yeah, this is looking nice and lush now! you can also walk through bushes as requested, and you can still break them for sticks for torches

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now spawning bushes using leaf blocks. gonna give them a bit of a different look from leaf blocks at some point but the basic idea mostly works

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i can now spawn sticks under/near trees during chunk generation :3

they don't do anything special, since you can get sticks from breaking leaf blocks, but it's just a little touch that makes the world feel more alive

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The new SDF grids add so many possibilities. I did a small test for procedural cave generation
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The new SDF grids add so many possibilities. I did a small test for procedural cave generation
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i can now overlay a block breaking decal on blocks, and it works on blocks with shell texturing and even nominally on objects like ferns and flowers

i draw the block's faces again using the stencil buffer, then draw the breaking decal with depth read/write off, masking using the stencil buffer

the way it works for ferns/flowers is i just draw all faces of the breaking pattern block, and any pixels outside the object model are masked

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optimized chunk generation and graphics rebuilding, and added basic visibility culling to skip drawing chunks behind the camera

even though all the code is still synchronous the terrain generation now keeps up with the camera even at a visible chunk radius of 16, and i get 60-90 fps with a radius of 12 even on my weak pc when not generating chunks (30-40 otherwise)

and this is what a visible chunk radius of 12 looks like:

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