Currently working on #Contraptioneer, a #FreeSoftware construction #game in a smooth #voxel world, using #Godot.
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Last Notes npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…3q9y not sure if you already know, but Unreal does have a diff tool for blueprints (not always very effective though) npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h I'm not even sure how UV are generated by boolean operations, I guess it should use the UV of the subtracted object? Anyway, if it works for some orientations and not others, seems like a bug... cool if you've found a workaround! npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h is this UV mapping or some kind of triplanar mapping? npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h I'm not sure to understand, if you bake the normal map, then you can't use it as a tiling texture anymore? Each texel now has to be applied to a surface of known orientation relative to the light? npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen I've created myself a ko-fi page, even though I don't have particularly high hopes on this 😅 Doesn't cost much to set up though https://ko-fi.com/youen_ npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…3q9y that's my understanding too! npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h I like mechanics in general, but yes, maybe I have a thing for modular systems 😁 npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen New feature in the #game! I've added the main menu, with sub menus to save/load, as well as the options menu. npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h I completely understand 🤣 Hard for me to as well to intentionally create things that I know wouldn't work "for real" npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h add a vertical pillar in the corner? I mean, not slanted like the walls, actually vertical and holding the corner of the roof? npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h don't know who Bob the Builder is or what kind of game that would be 😅 npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen If a game was to be called "Make do Engineer", how do you understand that title? English is not my first language so I'm not sure... npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen Which brings me to another topic: how would you release a (very) early access game? npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen I think I'm done with improvements of the environment, for now. This was quite an overhaul already 😊 npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen Playing with physics and water. With no particular purpose yet, just testing everything works so far. npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h that makes sense, actually! In a universe with no Fermi paradox 🤔 npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h interesting! But how come all "advanced" planets started space exploration at the same time? npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…nz6q nice! but it's not a "flathead" screwdriver? npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…upeu that's often a problem for commit message npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…7j8f just a wild guess, but maybe you're using a negative angle, when you actually want angle+PI ? To turn it 180 degrees npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen Still a few "details" to fix 😅 npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…29up also makes me think how fast would a computer boot, how instantly would a web page load or an application start up... npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…5y0h or people/plot incompatibility. Not every plot is for everyone. npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…3q9y don't know if the more classical "checking you are human" things actually work? (maybe a custom one with a silly question?) npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…3q9y well, soon you'll be able to make your own! In, like, I don't know, a couple decades 😅 npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…3q9y still working on my game https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@youen/116274761302417892, which I knew from the beginning was way too ambitious for a single person, but discarded the sentiment for some reason, and re-discovering it from time to time. It's going great, is quite satisfying, just don't know how many decades I'll need 😅 npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen More tests with hinges. npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen Fixed my son puzzle (one piece got chewed by the dog) npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…4f7h npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…3q9y is that some kind of dark magic ritual? Looks good, as long as you're perfectly in control of the forces you're wielding 👍 npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…xvmr I think there is something that can be generalized further here. In a world of global overproduction, you can, for example, be very good at making wood furniture, but that doesn't guarantee you can even make a living from it. You'd be competing with big companies selling industrial furniture at half the price. The difficulty is not to be able to make something useful. I'm not sure this is a good world (and not even talking about ecological consequences) npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen Sometimes I feel that I'm probably capable of making a good game (my biggest threat here is being too ambitious), but that even if I do (I mean something finished, reasonably polished, interesting and fun to play), I'm so bad at communication that nobody will ever know about it (and since the potential audience is a small niche, there is an actual risk that none of the people that would be interested will hear of it) npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen I just discovered #Hesiod https://github.com/otto-link/Hesiod, a node-based free and #OpenSource #terrain generator. npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen @nprofile…rtt8 maybe all of them actually 😅 but I'm not sure, never properly listed them 🤔 npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen How long do you think Microsoft Teams will need to disconnect my account? npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen Which IDE do you use for #Godot development in C++ on Linux? Or C++ development in general. I don't need anything special, just a working linter, a shortcut to build and run, and of course a debugger. npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen Does anyone know of a tool to edit a #HeightMap? npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen The highest mountain on the screenshot is 2500m high. But it also takes a huge portion of the game world (which is 16km x 16km). While I want a world "big enough" (my main requirement is that it should be impractical to travel by foot everywhere), I can't make it much bigger, because this would lead to floating point precision issues. npub190quu3d2rga8afrfkmcxvr25f4e0f0kma8kahs4felpwmlxe2n7sfgej4q youen I've spent way too much time finding this information, so if someone needs it... to enable anisotropic filtering on a custom shader (gdshader) in #GodotEngine 4, the syntax is:
