Falkreon, when the walls fell @falkreon@cybre.space

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I'm finally sketching up what I've been talking about for a long time. Think of these dots as regularly-spaced on a square "texture". These dots then get projected from the square onto an octahedron, and from the octahedron onto the sphere that you see.

The arrangement is already very regular / uniform, and is equivalent to a projection of squares onto a sphere (which is impossible without SOME distortion). I'm confident that this distortion can be further reduced by applying a cosine "reverse pincushion" to each face to spread the points away from the vertexes and edges of the octahedron.

Once a stable, minimum-distortion mapping is sorted out, it can be used as a basis for actual, non-fake round voxel worlds with cube blocks(!)

in all seriousness the world generator is extremely advanced at this point and I'm probably going to put together a reference generator for fabric.

p.s. this is what I mean by "discrete perlin noise"

Been dipping back into worldgen with some fresh ideas. What you're seeing is *extremely fast* voronoi cells and biome selection (~300msec for a 2048x1024 area regardless of biome / voronoi cell size) done by avoiding solid noise entirely. I'm using what I'm calling "discrete perlin noise".

Next up is setting up the biome selection table, which is easy if you just write that, but I'm thinking about careless modders stuffing 100 biomes all into one temperate spot in the table and making them all less likely to occur. So instead, I'm going to run a miniature magnetic repulsion simulation on the biomes on the biome selection map for a couple hundred iterations to nudge them all out into a low-energy configuration.

This reduces back into a regular table lookup so while it's generating it'll be super fast and pick all biomes with roughly equal weight, but will more or less preserve adjacencies and not put frozen tundras next to arid deserts.

More on this later I think.

Go home Steam you're drunk

The textboxes in this game sure do look weird

I have no idea what this game should look like but I'm guessing this is something like it.

Whoa hey Mr. Thug? I seem to have activated these web shooter thingeys and I don't know how to get down and there are mad ladies coming out of the windows swinging rolled up newspapers at me, can you come pull me down? No? Okay, thanks mister thug

Spiderman: Hey, cool, thugs!
Thug: What? What did you say? What the f- come over here, I'm gonna beat you up
Spiderman: Hey buddy, uh, did you see a guy with a dome head pass by here? Like, just a big old fishbowl? I'm kind of in over my head here.
Thug: Oh I'll fix you *right up*
Spiderman: Gee thanks mister thug
Thug: *LEFT HOOK*

We appear to be at the Licensed Game portion of this licensed game

Cutscenes render great

dammit people

the linehack wavy effect already works, let's see what we can do about the rest of this

Shit is getting real here

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I continue to hate Blender

Elliot Page is the man on the cover of Time Magazine

We are not in the worst timeline guys

presented without comment

So I'm about at the point where I need to start pulling in animation. I'm ready for this: blender and blockbench both have easily-accessible animation formats for soft- and rigid-body animations, respectively, and I'm completely prepared to load these formats. But I need animations for testing.

Now, if I do them, I will do them poorly. I definitely don't know how to rig and skin in blender. I *do* know how to maim and torture models in Blockbench.

So, meet Shrek (no relation). If I don't receive one (1) test animation I will be forced to perform my jean-related experiments on my new friend Shrek here instead. Pictured here wearing jeans as proof.

(TL, DR; the render engine is proceeding normally, more screenshots to follow once I have things I can demo)

More renderer work.

I have it stealing data from STB_EasyFont to generate in-scene text meshes, in case someone wanted to demake Prey or Alan Wake.