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hobbyist programmer, modeler, possessor of the plunsh

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jul 30

I made some changes to the horse, and gave some attention to combat again.
More in the thread!

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Aug 2

frog

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jul 30

Certainly take your time, and try to find ways to make learning fun for yourself.
I felt most engaged when I was exploring things I felt deeply passionate for.
If you're meaning to get into 3D game development, be ready for a lot of math!

pearl: press F1 to learn about some class or datatype!

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jul 30

Made a few changes to combat to feel a little more responsive and tense.

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jul 30

Archery on horseback is somewhat done, needs some extra time in the oven but it works!

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jul 30

I made some changes to the horse, and gave some attention to combat again.
More in the thread!

glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...
#indiedev #godot #godotengine

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jul 24

game dev blooper, he looks like a minecraft mob.

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jul 24

Crazy how adding little animations like these just add so much more life to your game baby. What I'd give for a fuzzy friend about now...

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jun 28

Performance improvements and a handful of minor fixes.

I managed to get 60 FPS on a little $100 mini PC that doesn't even have a dedicated graphics card on it, how neat is that?

glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jun 17

It might help to evaluate what needs to be threaded for the most performance gains before putting things on separate threads. The main-thread is easiest to iterate on - save threading for when you know it'll help!

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jun 17

Multi-threading is really hard, but it's also rewarding when you've exhausted all possible optimization tricks for a single thread.

Doing things with pure data and deferring any main-thread stuff is not so bad. Just be sure you're working in the right memory space when on a separate thread!

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Jun 9

I made a video about oldschool drop shadows, and my stab at recreating their charm in #Godot.
youtu.be/7pAkgcDTWA0

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Ventury and Oldschool Shadows - A Technical Debrief

YouTube video by glossydon

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · May 29

I'm aware, though it wouldn't hurt to expand my repertoire by experimenting nonetheless. Right now I'm not in a position to commit myself to artistic things, or new features of my own creation. Practice makes perfect!

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · May 29

The irresistible urge to optimize, Argh!!!

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · May 28

I am enjoying the process of prototyping things for the game, but man life can kind of stink sometimes. When you reasonably can, find what brings you joy and replenish!

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · May 28

Terrain and ambient areas, oh my! Give my 3D game baby a looksie on its page!

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · May 16

Admittedly, I did patch the baking process together from other pieces of code found in the addon.

Either-or, I didn't see anything like this in the community server. I'm debating whether or not to make the code cleaner and sharing it, or keeping it secret like Wizard Ale.

Probably not secret.

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · May 16

I mentioned a baking system for Terrain3D, an addon created by Tokisan Games. The addon is really smart, but navigation is also tricky.

Because the terrain is segmented into chunks, and those chunks have a coordinate system of their own, I made navigation kernel baking a thing.

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · May 16

I'm a little ways out from making another build, but I can still show with a little video!
youtu.be/SxF3NyiZ29U
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Ventury Update - Terrain3D, Ambience

YouTube video by glossydon

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Apr 25

Sorry to miss the mark by a few days, I've just been so busy with other things that I couldn't make time for the project as much as I would have preferred.

Either way, new build!
glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...
#Godot #GodotEngine #indie #gamedev

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Apr 17

I made some minor tune-ups for dodging, blocking and parrying. I might push for a new build in a few days. Might be rude to ask, but do follow so you don't miss out if you're interested in trying it out!
#Godot #GodotEngine #gamedev #indie

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Apr 3

She has a flowy dress! Wowwie!
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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Mar 28

I'm happy with the new UI, it looks very clean.

glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Mar 28

Another new version up on itch. glossydon.itch.io/ventury/devl...
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Late-March Tweaks

Minor improvements and additions to the game have been made Minor animation fixes for Rixin's combat motions Rixin occasionally wheels his sword when focused on an enemy Improvements for Rixin and Ari...

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Mar 24

If I may suggest a video reference for Rigify, it'd be Tudor's.
A good follow-up would be Tudor's explanation of a jointly designed blender addon, Game Rig Tools.
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Rigify Fundamental for Blender 2.8~3.6 ("Rig Anything with Rigify" ) - YouTube

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glossydon.bsky.social @glossydon.bsky.social · Mar 24

It's kinda neat, seeing him wheel the sword around from time to time.
#godot #godotengine

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