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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 4d

Here is a small terrain generator/renderer in few lines of #gdscript and #glsl in #godot.
The generation part is the most basic one. The vertex shader is just a bit more complex, but not that heavy. If needed, I can provide some explanation in a more in depth post. thegodotbarn.com/contribution...

Small Terrain Generator

A script to generate terrain data, a shader to render it.

thegodotbarn.com

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 6d

Coming soon at @thegodotbarn.com , ultra-simple small terrain generation (based on FastNoise). Script + Shader. This example is a 128x128 terrain with a bicubic Bezier interpolation vertex shader to smooth. #GodotEngine #gdscript #glsl #indiegamedev #GodotTips

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XSGames (by Frank Eno) @xsgames.bsky.social · 7d

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 7d

And soon, the whole river and lakes things, the ground tile textures shown recently, and some other stuff I've not shown because not really "appealing" for social media.

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 7d

Dots are connecting. All the small bricks I've crafted here and there are finally starting to build something bigger. It's not very evocative in that video, but everything here has something special (remember the cubic Bezier terrain, the input management, etc. ?) #gamedev #solodev

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PapaPandaGames @papapandagames.itch.io · 8d

You can now play the #Starjumper demo.
Please leave a comment what you like and what not!

#godot #gamedev

papapandagames.itch.io/starjumperdemo

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 7d

Those damn doors !! :) One of the nightmares in the gamedevs ....

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 7d

It seems like the internet love cat pics, so here is one of our mascot : Turbo !

#cat

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 10d

I have made a more lengthy video of the ground texture editor prototype with a full-length explanation of what it's all about. Please note that there only a textured quad involved. No crazy geometry with millions of polygons. #GodotEngine #indiegamedev #solodev #procgen

youtu.be/y2zZELKHXaM

Ground Tile Texture Editor (WIP 10/2025)

YouTube video by CasualGarageCoder

youtu.be

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Diego Flôor @diegzumillo.bsky.social · Jul 26

It's available now github.com/diegzumillo/...

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 12d

In fact, it's a simple quad. Only the texture is generated with a bit of bump mapping (usual normal map).

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 13d

Some additional lines of code and voilà : Editing directly on the 3D tile. Love #Godot for that. #indiegamedev #solodev

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 14d

Now, i'm wondering if i should make a 3D only editor and paint the control texture directly on the 3D bump mapped patch 🤔

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 14d

Fixed the "sharpness" parameter pretty easily, using a mix between (F2 - F1) and min(F1, F2)^3 (F1 and F2 being Worley output parameters). The cubic easing is purely arbitrary, but it works pretty well. #procgen #GodotEngine #indiegamedev #solodev

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 14d

The Worley part is from github.com/Erkaman/glsl... . For the fractal part, I've applied a slightly modified fBm algorithm that allows almost continuous details (but we a frequency progression != 2).

GitHub - Erkaman/glsl-worley: Worley noise implementation for WebGL shaders

Worley noise implementation for WebGL shaders. Contribute to Erkaman/glsl-worley development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 14d

Once i'll got the whole stack ready, or at least playable, I'll publish it on github (or other) and make some additional entries to @thegodotbarn.com (thegodotbarn.com) . 🧵

The Godot Barn

The Godot Barn is an open community of Godot resources for any game developer or creator. Give or get help, learn about new topics or share interesting code snippets, shaders or updates

thegodotbarn.com

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 14d

For this, I've put together many things. The basic UI itself is simple Godot UI. The drawing "tool" is using compute shaders. It allows me drawing a control texture that serves as parameter for a rendering shader that uses Worley fractal noise + some extra stuff. 🧵

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 14d

Still working on this #procgen ground texture tool. The "sharpness" parameter is not satisfying. I have chosen a simple solution that simply doesn't fit. I think working on F1 and F2 Worley outputs will be necessary. #GodotEngine #indiegamedev #solodev #glsl

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 14d

Made a change in the Worley distance function and the sharpness management (not more expensive pow). It looks much better now (especially the details). #GodotEngine #indiegamedev #solodev #glsl #procgen

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 19d

Static blog site generator : Hugo or Jekyll ?

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 20d

And how many options you just need ;)

Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 20d

So many ideas for my little bomberman clone. Too many. But i have to take controls into consideration. 4 moving controls (directions) and no more than two action controls (normal/bomb laying) + special action (perk activation ?).

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 21d

Oh, sry :) Just posted a new video with the surprise unraveled.

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 21d

The #procgen normal texture is controlled by 3 parameters : detail, sharpness and "lush". It is based on a fBm fractal worley noise. It is meant for ground texture. The "real" colors will come later (and that will be fun to explain how). #Godot #glsl #IndieGameDev #gamedev #solodev

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Casual Garage Coder @casualgaragecoder.com · 21d

Small side project, when i've got some spare-time on my spare-time. #bomberman clone in #Godot ! It will be both singleplayer and local/online multiplayer with tons of perks and pixel + shader madness ! #gamedev #solodev #indiegamedev

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