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

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

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

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

A voxel engine forest scene with leaf block clumps scattered around to make bushes

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

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

A stick lies in the grass next to a tree trunk. Nearer the tree trunk is another stick, and there is another in the distance next to a fern.

halcy :icosahedron: boosted

Daniel Fernández Marqués

@daniFMdev@mastodon.gamedev.place · last month

The new SDF grids add so many possibilities. I did a small test for procedural cave generation
#geometrynodes #procgen #b3d

Daniel Fernández Marqués

@daniFMdev@mastodon.gamedev.place · last month

The new SDF grids add so many possibilities. I did a small test for procedural cave generation
#geometrynodes #procgen #b3d

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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · last month

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

a fern with some areas darkened, though the pixels of the breaking pattern don't match up with the fern's texture's pixels

leaf block with block breaking pattern overlaid. it can be seen despite the pyramidal leaf shell texture that sits in front of the actual block face

a tree log block with a block breaking pattern overlaid

a dirt block with a block breaking pattern overlaid

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · last month

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:

voxel forest extending into the distance, viewed from high in the air

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

couple days late but, happy 1 month birthday block game! what a difference a month of development makes

a voxel scene at night, set in a terrain of hilly dirt topped with grass and dotted with ferns and purple wildflowers. the remains of a ruined stone structure is visible in the middle of a cluster of trees. light shines from the ruin, casting streaks of light out from where the walls have crumbled down to the ground, and lighting up the nearby trees and leaves. the title bar reads "BlockGame" and has a caption saying "One month". in the bottom left corner a small image of a plain cube with sharp edges and a uniform speckled green grass texture set to a cornflower blue background is labeled with "One day"

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

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@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · 2 months 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

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

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

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

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

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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months 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

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

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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place replied · 2 months 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

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

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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months 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

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months 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 💜

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place · 2 months 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

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

Andrew Wooldridge ✨️ boosted

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

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