What I did today

Miscellaneous Topics
#201

Is this what they used in “Sir, you are being hunted?” I watched a video of them explaining something that looked a lot like this. Good work!

#202

I just made multi-layered nebula which scrolls together with mouse.

GIF (10 mb):

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/67758055/jgo/nebulas.gif

#203

That’s awesome. Is it for anything specific?

#204

Is it procedural at all or pre-made textures?
Have been thinking of making a procedural galaxy/nebula thingamabob.

#205

Yes, but we are still at planning/prototyping phase.

Pre-made textures processed using shader to give them semi-transparent nebula-like look. I will probably add more stars to the last layer to make everything look more like galaxy.

The scroll effect itself is inspired by War Thunder loading screens. :slight_smile:

#206

Did I just find a bug? :S

First you see my explosion particle effect in the Particle Editor, the last part is the result in libGDX (my game).
Other particles work fine (as you can see).

#207

Maybe try to find ground line equation and discard all particles below ground (if this is possible in LibGDX)?

#208

filtering pixels.

1154×628 140 KB

75% resolution, spherical distortion. not as blurry as linear-filtering.

#209

I was planning on tweaking the explosions later (after fixing the bug), it doesn’t crash if I draw below ground (negative y).
I have the same problem where or when doesn’t matter (I also drew it in mid-air).

EDIT: It had to do with some scaling, if I disable the scaling I do on the explosion, it works good (no hole).

EDIT 2: If anybody is interested in a proper scaling method:

public void scaleParticleEffect(ParticleEffect effect, float scale){
		for(int i = 0; i < effect.getEmitters().size; i++){
		    effect.getEmitters().get(i).getScale().setHigh(effect.getEmitters().get(i).getScale().getHighMin()*scale, effect.getEmitters().get(i).getScale().getHighMax()*scale);
		    effect.getEmitters().get(i).getScale().setLow(effect.getEmitters().get(i).getScale().getLowMin()*scale, effect.getEmitters().get(i).getScale().getLowMax()*scale);
			
		    effect.getEmitters().get(i).getVelocity().setHigh(effect.getEmitters().get(i).getVelocity().getHighMin()*scale, effect.getEmitters().get(i).getVelocity().getHighMax()*scale);
		    effect.getEmitters().get(i).getVelocity().setLow(effect.getEmitters().get(i).getVelocity().getLowMin()*scale, effect.getEmitters().get(i).getVelocity().getLowMax()*scale);
		}
	}
#210

Started looking at some land tiles:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1668516/shots/roam/landtest1.png

Cheers,

Kev

#211

Today I made a sliding and scrolling panel. Not much but it’s one of my first steps to improving gameplay ;D
Screenshot (click for full) :point:

http://i.imgur.com/oRzmPaV.png

#212

I wrote a rant.

#213

Which I might reply to once I finish reading it :slight_smile: - Probably the only notable thing I’m going to do today.

#214

Much code, planning, nothing visual

#215

I am working on my Game-Framework again, slowly turning it into a Game-Engine.

The result looks awesome (Using Portal 2 textures in this Image):

#216

Learning and testing a VBO quad :slight_smile:

#217

More pixel art tests for land and houses:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1668516/shots/roam/landtest2.png

Cheers,

Kev

#218

I wrote a small program which does raycasting through a 3D texture.

  1. Find MRI image.

  1. Split it up into individual frames.

  2. Put frames in folder of program.

  3. Profit, in the form of broccoli!

#219

Wow, that’s actually amazing! You should make this into actual software, companies could pay big bucks for a easy to use program like this :slight_smile:

#220

Loving soft pixel art style. Very “relaxing” looking. :slight_smile: