Pikmin-like robots following the player in a grid formation

#customengine #vulkan

More optimizations, and with the frame time going down the number of triangles is increasing. Fat pixels everywhere!

#SoloDev #GameDev #IndieDev #CustomEngine #SoftwareRenderer #ScreenshotSaturday

Taking a break from navmeshes, made a quick debug view for render graphs!

#customengine #carrotengine

Finally, a useable navmesh!
It seems there are weird issues with the path going back and forth, but it is still progress!

#customengine

From regions to something that starts to look like a navmesh!

I think my mesh simplification is a bit too aggressive...

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Finally added frustum culling and 100'000 randomly positioned meshes on top of the terrain. There's still no gameplay, but walking around the hills feels good

#SoloDev #GameDev #IndieDev #CustomEngine #SoftwareRenderer

Voxels -> Distance Field -> Regions

Next is detecting region contours and region connectivity, and finally output a navmesh!

#customengine

Started implementing automatic navmesh generation: first voxelise the scene, then remove all walkable voxels that do not have enough space for the character.

Next steps are to generate a contour mesh, and optimise this mesh!

#customengine #screenshotsunday

It's always fun to work on a trivial task only to find a problem somewhere deep in my #customengine that hinders implementing that exact task.

With that out of the way here is a WIP of usable Torches that aren't quite finished yet... 😓

#indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev

Implemented path smoothing, and it is now clear that my pathfinding likes to take the long way.

#customengine

Took time this week-end to implement pathfinding over navmeshes!

Still need to optimise the found path to avoid weird movement though.

#customengine #screenshotsunday

Finally, some "gameplay": sending some minions to collect items!

(Forgive the denoiser which is going crazy)
#vulkan #customengine #gamedev

Making progress towards custom shaders inside my editor!

#vulkan #customengine #graphics

Finally fixed a random DeviceLost error I had in my engine!

The cause?
1. My buffer object was reallocated at the same memory location than two frames prior (by random chance, via make_unique).
2. Equality was based on the pointer to this buffer object.
3. Equality meant the engine would not update the VkBuffer used inside a descriptor set.
4. Therefore the GPU crashed on deletion of the old buffer because command buffers were still using it.

#vulkan #customengine

Reflecting on the past 12 months of my #solodev #indiedev journey this #ThrowbackThursday.

Alongside my day job, I brought my #customengine to life with new assets, AI systems, custom UI, and actual gameplay elements 😉

#gamedev #gaming #indiegame #monogame

Now merging static mesh data in a single buffer to allow future optimization.

It just works

#customengine #vulkan #graphics

Loaded various Source maps inside my engine to stress test it!

Here's a few screenshots in between two "device lost" crashes.

#vulkan #graphics #customengine

Trying to get transparent objects working inside my engine.

Randomly discarding pixels based on their alpha value seems to do the trick, but the denoiser gets really confused.

#graphics #vulkan #customengine

Got my ECS working with C#, and with debug support too!

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example demo of external model loading in real time. Or as I like to call it: "Scene Appending"

#CustomEngine #OpenGL #GLFW #Collada #CPP #ImGUI #rendering