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i still have some small optimizations to do to direct lighting and small bugs to fix (literal corner cases agghhh!! 😫) and i'll probably tweak the lighting colors and skybox a bit here and there but i'm considering the lighting system done now and i'm excited to move on to adding more *stuff* to the game

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · 2 weeks ago

someone asked what the caves look like with the different light layers so in this post and a couple replies imma post screenshots from the same cave earlier with direct + indirect, direct only, and indirect only light

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cave screenshot, labeled "indirect lighting only". there is a very gradual darkening throughout with no cast shadows, and a block very close to the camera is lit up

cave screenshot, labeled "direct lighting only". there is an abrupt shadow on the left and top right, and a block very close to the camera is completely dark

cave screenshot, labeled "combined direct + indirect". there is a noticeable shadow falloff, though not absolute, in the passages connecting left and top right

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 weeks ago

holy shit dude look at how much more dramatic caves look now when you stick a light in em!

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camera looking out from the lit portion of the cave. there are other passages to the left and top of the screen. most of the cave is well lit, but the passages are plunged into shadow where the light can't reach

camera looking at the lit up cave from the other side. there's a stark contrast between surfaces directly lit by the light, and the cave in general lit by bounce light

camera looking down a dark cave. a light is around the corner, casting a diagonal shadow, with bounce light lighting up the area where direct light doesn't reach

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 weeks ago

okay that's much better 😊 there's some light bleed that i need to fix but i think i might know what's causing that

either way this is a good stopping point for the day

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two stone pillars and a stone wall on a flat dirt voxel surface. there's a light on the central pillar, and it's casting shadows behind the other pillar, on the floor, and behind the wall

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · 2 weeks ago

fixed the light bleed issue

so basically block game has faux global illumination now. i realized minecraft style lighting is kinda like bounce lighting, so i figured if i added shadow mapped direct lighting it'd look sorta like GI and i think it turned out real good!

you can see that both methods separately lack something, but when combined the scene feels pretty grounded :D

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the same scene but with indirect lighting only. the entire scene is lit with a nice soft gradient that extends to the radius of the light source, and weakens a little behind obstacles, but there are no proper cast shadows, which makes the scene feel less grounded

the same scene but with direct lighting only. the parts cast in shadow like the central pillar and the larger side pillar are very starkly contrasted and the shadows cast are, aside from a soft penumbra, a single dark color with no light variance

scene with three stone structures in a row on top of flat dirt ground. on the far left is a tall pillar, in the middle a short pillar, and on the right a wall with a small hole in the center at the bottom. the middle pillar has a light source on top, casting shadows around its own pillar on the ground, as well as behind the taller pillar and wall, but there's still a gradient of lighting inside the shadows, not just hard on/off

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 weeks ago

replaced the 100% faked day night cycle with a proper one. it's still a little barebones because it only changes the clear color but it's a lot better than a sine wave

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 weeks ago

block and sky light have been separated, the lighting system is complete, and i have made the sloppiest day night cycle ever to showcase it! enjoy 💜

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 weeks ago

if i set the layers to exclusion you can see the difference. darker is more equal and brighter is less equal. there's dark parts along the cardinals from the light source, and near the player at the edge of the light radius, but in between (along the diagonals) they differ greatly

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both lighting styles overlaid using exclusion, with a little lightbulb to mark the light source. there's dark bands along the cardinal directions near the light source, and dark bands near the camera at the edges of the light's radius, but the geometry becomes lighter everywhere else, highlighting where the two algorithms produce the most different results

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4 weeks ago

i can finally hop around this world and IT'S SO GOOD 😭

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4 weeks ago

i can finally hop around this world and IT'S SO GOOD 😭

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4 weeks ago

found another cool ravine, chat

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a rough stone ravine that goes down pretty deep, with a few blocks of dirt mixed in. it goes around the corner to the right and out of sight. flanking the ravine is dirt with grass on top. the ravine looks cool

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4 weeks ago

i added a way to toggle the bevel effect on and off and i can't stop flying around toggling it on and off and marveling at how much of a difference it makes

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4 weeks ago

babe wake up, new block type just dropped

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camera in a 3d block game is standing on grassy dirt, looking down into a cave where the dirt transitions to rough stone

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4 weeks ago

who's got two thumbs and infinitely spawning terrain? this girl 👈👈

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · 4 weeks ago

holy shit this is already spawning some sick caves, look at the awesome ravine i found at the end of this clip!

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4 weeks ago

you can see through the sides of chunks now because the chunks (correctly!) note that their underground sides faces are obscured. it's just that they're obscured by chunks you can't see because they haven't fully been generated yet

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · 4 weeks ago

who's got two thumbs and infinitely spawning terrain? this girl 👈👈

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Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4 weeks ago

chunks connect properly now! with bonus shot of the sprawling cave systems beneath the surface

i made a staged chunk generation system where chunks can request their neighbors be generated but only up to a certain stage, which keeps the generation from going infinitely in all directions, because the requested stage must always be lower than the chunk's current stage of generation

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A view of cave systems generated underneath the surface of the 3x3 chunks, showing a maze of twisting connected passages going deep beneath the earth, set on a background of cornflower blue color

surface terrain made up of beige brown dirt blocks topped with fluffy grass, 3x3 chunks in size. the chunks connect properly to each other now, with appropriate grass transitions and no outlines where there shouldn't be any

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4 weeks ago

i've got columns of chunks working, but they're not really connected at the moment so i gotta fix that next

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3x3 vertical columns of chunks made out of dirt blocks topped with grass, but the grass doesn't connect across chunk borders and there are terrain outlines between the different chunks

Eniko Fox

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · last month

here's another close up i really enjoyed of the terrain in my block game

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beige brown dirt voxel terrain with shell textured grass on top. on the bottom left there seems to be a cave leading down under the surface

Mre. Dartigen [maker mode] boosted

Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space · last month

An amazing (and massive) new No Man's Sky update just dropped (for free) - No Man's Sky Voyagers 6.0. A Star Citizen like, liveable new Corvette ship tier has been introduced. You craft it yourself, fly with a friend crew (if you like), explore far and wide.

As mentioned in the deep dive video, it uses new tech simultaneously being developed for both No Man's Sky and the forthcoming Light No Fire.

This is the 49th major update to No Man's Sky across these nine years (total updates so far: 251 -- all free).

Deep dive video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdkt2rDKnAE

More info:
https://www.nomanssky.com/voyagers-update/

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space · last month

As mentioned in the deep dive video, it uses new tech simultaneously being developed for both No Man's Sky and the forthcoming Light No Fire.

This is the 49th major update to No Man's Sky across these nine years (total updates so far: 251 -- all free).

Deep dive video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdkt2rDKnAE

More info:
https://www.nomanssky.com/voyagers-update/

Rune Skovbo Johansen

@runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 months ago

Here's a fly-by with the new trees. The fact that they cast/receive shadows even in the distance makes a huge difference compared to the old Unity billboard ones, which destroyed the sense of depth in the distance.
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(Video of old trees here: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/112186261304893345)

Rune Skovbo Johansen

@runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place · 3 months ago

I got translucency working on the trees ☀️🌳

Hell yeah, let's stroll!

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