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Nikita Lisitsa

@lisyarus.bsky.social

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He/him I teach C++ & computer graphics and make videogames Working on a medieval village building game: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGI94QoFYJwGaieAkqw5_qfoupdppxHN&cbrd=1 Check out my cozy road building traffic sim: https://t.ly/FfOwR

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · Aug 14

A new devlog about my medieval village building game! About 4 months of progress in this one!

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #devlog

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fymx...

Stockpiles, Roofs, and Much More! - Village Builder Devlog #10

YouTube video by Nikita Lisitsa

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 18h

I'm in this post and I don't like it

(jk I do like it)

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 2d

Ha, I'm glad you asked 😅

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

New smooth clouds timelapse from the ground 🥰

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Never!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you so much! Yep, it's sped up 16x :) I've tweaked the clouds so that at normal speed their movement is just barely visible but still visible

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

New smooth clouds timelapse from the ground 🥰

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

It's actually marching squares (i.e. 2D, not 3D) :)

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

New smooth clouds timelapse from the ground 🥰

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

Really happy I didn't have to go the "compute true normals via clever vertex indexing & GPU atomics" route tbh

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 4d

Made the cloud normals smooth based on the noise gradient (which was a bit tricky because the noise → height mapping has infinite derivative on the cloud edge), and now it looks pretty much exactly how I envisioned it! ☁️

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

No, just a buncha noise!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

A timelapse of a storm forming over an island

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

I really like the rolling animation of these clouds though!

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Fixed cloud normals & added cloud shadows. Still contemplating ways to make the normals smooth...

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Clouds wip: basically marching squares producing a 3D mesh. Normals are off for some reason & I definitely need to make them smooth...

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Setting up the stage to procedurally generate cloud meshes on compute shaders

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you! I'm just literally rotating the whole sky, nothing special :)

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Nah, the holes are still obviously visible. Also I do want the outlines!

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Oh, it's also shaded through shader derivatives to approximate normals. Guess I'll have to do some actual proper mesh generation...

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

So I had a stupid idea to just draw two giant square grids, one for top and one for bottom of the clouds, sample some noise to compute height & discard non-cloud parts in the shader. Hard to make connected geometry this way :/

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Forgot to post it earlier - made the stars blink a bit for some extra vibes ✨✨✨

(the video is sped up 4x)

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Current clouds implementation state: good enough, ship it
(jk, I just started)

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 5d

Sooo do I move on from the sky or do I nerdsnipe myself with clouds? Wrong answers only

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6d

Btw the moon actually has correct moon phases & makes a full cycle in 30 in-game days, which is exactly the length of one season (spring/summer/etc)

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6d

New additions to the night sky: moon and stars! ✨
I think it's the most beautiful sky I've ever made for a game, and it isn't even physically-based 😅

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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