Spent some time doing some housekeeping, moved some "temporary" files, setup a scene manager, game manager, and a main menu scene. Nothing very exciting, but all progress is progress. At some point I'll have to think of a name for this... #GameDev #IndieGame

Trees got a bit bigger, feels a bit more like a forest now. They also get out of the way when they're blocking the player which makes life a bit easier. #GameDev #IndieGame

The camp now actually gets given a spot during the map generation and I have the player spawning there... At some point I'll make it do something and be upgradable, eventually. When I stop just making environments and start making actual mechanics... #GameDev #IndieGame

I added bushes and flowers that are both coloured based on the season this morning. Things are starting to feel a little more alive now... Next up is making paths. #GameDev #IndieGame

I also took the chance to throw in what I needed for easy seasonable changes... One variable change gives me autumnal trees. #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGame #GameDev

Okay, so after a reasonable amount of thinking about it I have optimised the fps drops out of the tree updates. They flash "unstyled" - but you'll never see that at the regular zoom distance. #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieGame #GameDev

Extremely early version of "biomes" - each cell starts with a temperature, moisture level and elevation. Trees prefer certain conditions and are weighted heavily against things they don't like. Also good example of my chunk loading at this zoom distance. Tree materials need work #GameDev #IndieGame

So after spending 2 hours debugging a massive rabbit hole that was leaking memory all over the place (turned out to be my RNG class weirdly) - I have collisions on trees and a shoddy outline. Not sure why its offset, something to do with the camera. Sounds like tomorrows problem. #GameDev #IndieGame

Random grass density ✔️
Random tree positioning ✔️
Chunks that spawn in and out and remember stuff ✔️

This is further than I expected to get. Guess it's time to actually start putting some of this to use. I definitely didn't think about just making a random tree generator too...

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Dynamic chunk loading... Greatly reduced range for demonstration purposes, but its mostly actually working. #GameDev #IndieDev #Godot

Set up the scene a little more and added a night environment, and some flickering to the campfire. #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #Indie

Day 1 one of getting back around to working on my own game again. Managed to import some models, and make a camp fire. Great start... #gamedev