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Big progress on geo clipmaps and terrain
First I have to mention that three weeks ago, I attended an IGDA meetup in my town and it went pretty well. I got to catch up with a friend I met at a previous meetup, and even managed to…Read more ›
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Engine changes on the way
Just a minor update this time. I haven’t done much more with the terrain or rendering code, but here’s what I am planning next for the engine. In addition to terrain and culling, I’m doing a bunch of...
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More outdoor lighting, and starting the game
Right now I’m at a point where I can see art becoming a more important thing to consider. I might resort to making some of my own models, and get re-acquainted with modeling tools. I used to work with...
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Forward rendering and scene objects
Now it’s time to get serious about ramping up production. I’ve brought up wanting to make a level editor before so here’s how I plan on making it. The rendering pipeline isn’t as good as I thought it...
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Some screenshots of forward rendering
Here’s a few quick test screens with the forward rendering in the engine, now that I have added shader support for terrains. The differences are subtle but somewhat surprising. First I’m testing out...
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How low-level should you go?
Today I was going to talk about my start on the game editor’s UI but something else got my attention. I have long been following some blogs and reviewers on XBox Indie Games, and now that the cat’s out...
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Looking back, and more game details
It’s been about a year and a half since I’ve started this blog, and back then my engine project was only 2 months old. This January is the first year my blog received more than 1000 visits in a...
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Triplanar normal mapping for terrain
First, before having gotten into terrain normal mapping, I added mouse picking for objects. I have some interactivity now! This is taken from an XNA code sample, then I modified it so it supports...
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The current game plan
Bye bye geo-clipmaps, here comes geo-mipmapping! I’ve been busy at converting my terrain rendering code to use it from now on. It’s not fully completed but the basics work. I just need to fix up the...
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Terrain picking solved
Finally, I figured out now to do precise terrain picking, so now I can make a lot of progress! As I’m going to be using BEPU for the physics engine, I just let BEPU do the dirty work. Using it…Read more ›
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One Game A Month: Here comes a new game project!
What? Another game already? That’s right, but this one will not be as big as my racing game project, which I expect to be ongoing for several months and likely at least a year. No, this game will be...
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Returning to form?
It’s been over a year since I updated this blog so I should probably tell you what I’ve been up to. While I was working on my main XNA project, Meteor Engine, I have also been unemployed most of the …...
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SeedWorld (my voxel world engine) first update
So here’s what I’ve been working on for the past two weeks. It seems that I have wanted to do a procedural voxel style world for some time and now have just started, only 4 years late on the voxel/cube...
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New Blog for SeedWorld
My SeedWorld voxel engine is getting its own blog, since it will be used to make a game out of it. It will be an open-ended RPG in the visual style of Cube World. I will be documenting the progress …...
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ECS is officially the bomb!
Over the last week and a half, I have been working on my own ECS framework. This is a side project away from my main voxel game, but it is something I wanted to do in order to be able … Continue reading →
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Applying ECS to a simple game
I’ve been going back to work on my Entity-Component-System framework. Aside from being a side project, I will also plan to use it for my voxel platform game. I’ve already created a Minimum Viable...
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SeedWorld (my voxel world engine) first update
So here’s what I’ve been working on for the past two weeks. It seems that I have wanted to do a procedural voxel style world for some time and now have just started, only 4 years late on the voxel/cube...
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New Blog for SeedWorld
My SeedWorld voxel engine is getting its own blog, since it will be used to make a game out of it. It will be an open-ended RPG in the visual style of Cube World. I will be documenting the progress …...
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ECS is officially the bomb!
Over the last week and a half, I have been working on my own ECS framework. This is a side project away from my main voxel game, but it is something I wanted to do in order to be able … Continue reading →
View ArticleClik here to view.
Applying ECS to a simple game
I’ve been going back to work on my Entity-Component-System framework. Aside from being a side project, I will also plan to use it for my voxel platform game. I’ve already created a Minimum Viable...
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