Water logging support. Water is on its own layer allowing grass and other non-full-blocks to be placed underwater #godot #voxel #gamedev

Set up Creeping Jenny rotation and placement! Artwork is @unknownalicia.bsky.social as always
#gamedev #godot #voxel

The frogs are not okay near walls
#godot #rust #voxel

Very short visual update on what the project looks like at the moment. Was to showcase implementing tall grass
#godot #rust #voxel

Nature Domain concept art is for the voxel game I'm doing art for. This is a general idea of what it's supposed to look like.

Tags: #art #2Dart #conceptart #commission

Updated the lighting to use floodfill like Minecraft does. I did want to stick with Godot lighting, but the problem was the performance was bad and it didn't work well with an underground game. Anyways, here is a nice shot of night time and some fire.
#godot #gamedev

Just a short animation of the Dragonfly, landing and then terrorizing the masses. Typical dragonfly activity.

Tags: #3Dart #3Danimation #animation #commission #art #dragonfly

Finally got a decent pathfinding algorithm setup. This is the demonstration video of the result of optimizing the physics, pathfinding, and rendering for creatures.

youtu.be/pezcaMJHUpw

The pathfinding is still A*, but with a nav mesh and ways to find the path faster via a simplified graph.

Summoning the squad works

Well, kinda... it appears creatures can get stuck when trying to fall down. At least the A* path works.

#godot #gamedev #voxel

This didn't play nicely for recording, but this is 100k animated bees running at 60fps in-game.

How? Using Vertex Animation Textures. Before, we could hardly even run 200 animated bees at the same FPS.

Our goal is in the hundreds for visible creatures

#gamedev #graphics #godot

Any guesses on what I have been working on?

I-It's right behind me, isn't it?

Found out about rodzilla.itch.io/material-maker and I am using it for temporary textures for my project. I always wanted a way to take a shader and then export a texture from it.

used it to create a temporary grass/dirt blend and exported it as a 256x256 image.

Working on Procedural Generation 👀

Goal is a shattered plateau with various biomes such as what we call the "Waterfall Landing." Need to get giant lilypads going and some rock formations. Well and better trees.

For any of you developers out there... highly recommend github.com/Auburn/FastN...

It's always biwilders me that people don't use source control for their software projects.

I can't imagine not having the ability to rollback in-case the new thing I made broke my game. Git stash is great.

Anyone beat the Factorio Space Age expansion yet? Getting pretty close... I think my favorite part is building the space ships

I'm just here for the game dev things. Working in Godot + Rust myself on a voxel game. Anyone else a game developer?