Today I ran the #iracing Nürburging 24h with Team Parabola in a 992 Cup Car. Did 5 stints including bringing home to finish in class 2nd place. Absolutely psyched about how we did. Running the Porsche Cup was an total blast.

After collision problems with my camera, I went on a spike with a CharacterBody camera. After about 2 weeks of trying to do orbits, I can't get rid of the divergence in calculated and velocity `Move()` positions (see the white and blue balls diverging.) #gamedev #godotengine

Since my grid does not consist of squares, my tiles need to be distorted to be placed. I'm using a lattice with 8 control points to twist the tiles into place. Attached that code to a [tool] script and some static bodies for the control points to test it out in the editor

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Heading into the WFC tile work, I needed repeatability to verify the logic and troubleshoot bugs. So I knocked out some QoL features with save and restore as well as unlimited undo/redo.
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Changed the hover/selection to be vertex instead of grid cell based. This is primarily prep for tile based building a la Townscaper. For that constraint solving it's better for the selection to be collection of quad corners rather than a quad.

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So I tore it out and replaced it with terrace "painting". On click the selected cell is leveled and any other cell gets set to the same level while the mouse is down. Still retain the ability to abort the whole operation and I even added a right-click "reset terrain" paint mode.

The more I worked on my path terracing the less I liked it. It was unintuitive and unpredictable.

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Not quite what I hoped to have for #screenshotsaturday . While I have terracing, and the pathfinding does try to follow contours, the path is unstable. It relies on 3D mouse position, which changes when the terrain under the mouse is modified.

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I've either spent the last couple of nights on a needed QoL feature or I was procrastinating on the refactor required to tile the terrain into chunks small enough to edit and regen in real time.

Either way, I now have hover with contextual grid and contour highlighting :)

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Finally have my grid generation working the way I want--creating an organic, quadrilateral grid respecting terrain contour lines. Create quads based on 2x grid, then subdivide and relax. Dark vertices are fixed (to edge or contour), light ones get relaxed.
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A bit late to #screenshotsaturday but quadify and relax took a bit longer than I had hoped.

Quadify should try to avoid any vertices that are shared by less than 3 and more than 5 quads.

For relaxation, I have some constraints, but need to determine convergence conditions. #gamedev #godotengine

But I don't think this really suits my goals after all. If you watch the relaxation using the underlying triangles, you can see that the delaunay triangulation may create different triangles on each voronoi iteration and I want to keep the triangulation stable during relaxation.

Finished my Lloyd's Algorithm demo last night. There's something so soothing about that relaxation. I could regenerate and watch it for hours. #gamedev #godotengine