Finally implemented proper frustum culling into Terrablox. Now, it works perfectly as intended; it knows precisely whether a chunk is inside the camera projection and I even check against the maxHeight inside a chunk, so even if you’re inside that chunk area, if you’re looking away from it’s actually visible areas if counts as outside […]
Eww! What is that?! OK, I know it isn’t pretty… I didn’t spend time prettying it up. But this is the engine running in colored block mode, as opposed to textured block mode. This is designed to create worlds like in the game; Cube World. Now, you could have achieved this with textures, and the […]
So to show the sort of scales we can work with now I threw together a world with height set to the current max (128). So the mountains are a little grander, though I also decreased the frequency of the noise generation so they weren’t all pointy! So this world has over 134,000,000 voxel spaces, […]
So I mentioned in the previous post that this current method of generation provides some nice meandering rivers. Well, I added a blue block to actually show these areas up and this is the result: As you can see, it’s pretty neat! I also didn’t expect that cool little island cluster in the corner, but […]
So as a break from ignoring Terrablox I’ve decided to write it again from the ground up. This is my usual way of implementing real changes. Every version I’ve ever written has had vast improvements, but it quickly becomes dead weight again as I learn more. But this time, I’m coming at it with a […]
The second bit of the stressy past week was the main GMC Jam. This went a little smoother and I was able to make a game that more closely resembled “finished”. I even managed to implement online highscores using Scoreoid. I wan’ted to include more of a story for this game but there wasn’t time, though […]
So last week is all a bit of a blur, I entered two game jams! The first was meant to be a week long “warm up” to the to the main 72 hour GMC Jam. I originally thought that I could just take it easy and do it while still relaxing, I even joined up […]
So last week I entered a game jam on GameDev.Net. It was a lot of hard hard but I’m really happy with the result. I made it with my artist friend, Francis. We had to keep a journal during the process of making our games. You can check out my journal here: http://www.gamedev.net/blog/1938-jack-franciss-week-of-awesome-ii/ And you can […]
Every week I try and do a development video for Terrablox. In this one, I show how far I’ve gotten so far with dynamic Depth Of Field.
So I guess I’ll start talking about my main project here. Terrablox. It’s a 3D Voxel-based, Geometry rendered sandbox adventure game. In very early stages still. There’s a website and forum for it at: terrablox.com and I do a YouTube series on it’s development which can be seen here: YouTube which has been going for probably about […]