Peter Kirkcaldy

are you peepee or terter

i take my work very seriously

block data array is accessed. all-in-all, this has reduced per-chunk memory use to ~2/3 by eliminating redundant data duplication.

also, i planned out my implementation of the voxel lighting compute shader. to be implemented tomorrow. a successful day :D

now i’ve adjusted the system to be able to read straight from the voxel data and apply that to the 3D texture. previously conflicts were created from the jobs system when trying to read block data that may have been modified. i tweaked my jobs setup to ensure that all jobs are complete before the

today in build fight game development:
massively reduced memory footprint of chunk objects! previously, each chunk stored an array of all the voxel data *and* a second array of just the block IDs of each voxel (to be passed to a 3D texture on the gpu for lighting processing)

should probably post more on here. oops

my steam page will be up soon!!

new gun design for my game. if you think it looks weird, it's supposed to. 10 points to anyone who can figure out what exactly this is 😉 #gamedev

build fight game is a currently in-dev team-based class-based shooter set in a fully destructible voxel based environment, join the discord if you want to ge... build fight gaming

I did my first proper playtest of my multiplayer FPS game: check out this little recap video I made (also working on a larger devlog 😉)

#indiedev

youtu.be/-j4x-t7vshk?...

tried to implement interp, accidentally turned myself into a spinbot. accidental l33t h4x

Today I added interp to my #madewithunity FPS game. Except I fucked it up and accidentally turned it into a spinbot? Anybody want to know what causes this, and how I fixed it🤔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tpx...

bluesky still not supporting videos is wild

https://peterkcodes.itch.io/build-fight-game when you turn the knockback value up a bit too high

more adventures with ragdolls!
youtu.be/l_jWKnjq4oM?...

me when i drop my comically huge gold bar

the process of creating a ragdoll system in my FPS game

#indiedev #madewithunity

my game is slowly but surely becoming Real. that is exciting. I'm gonna make an effort to start releasing weekly youtube videos so I can build up an online presence and accumulate wishlists and general interest.

making a silly little demo level as im developing my CSP library

it's definitely something to look into. this video is a great starting place for computer shaders specifically
youtu.be/BrZ4pWwkpto?...

I suppose its probably different since im writing compute shaders rather than standard shaders, it feels closer to C# (except in some confusing ways that come to baffle me)

I was very tempted to take the easy route lol, but I really had to have proper lighting and make sure all the chunk gen was still fast. I have a character in the game who's primary ability is being able to dig 3x3 tunnels very very quickly, so poor chunk performance could easily mess up the balance.

yea shaders are a real pain. i use shadergraph wherever I can, and where writing actual HLSL is required I find generally it's syntactic similarities with C# sorta allow me to hack something function together.

I've had a lot of growing pains to get it to actually function, but pretty limited crashing issues. most recent headache has been block lighting, since Unity's default real-time setup means that underground areas are pretty much fully lit. im using a compute shader to approximate better lighting.

all custom multithreading! I'm not familiar enough with jobs to make it work, so I spin up a thread on each available CPU core responsible for generating chunk mesh data, then pass that to the main thread where its converted to an actual in-game mesh.

i fucked up block lighting and now it looks like there's just been intermittent oil spills across the world

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nothing is more exciting than selecting hats. love this!!

update: I wrote a compute shader

Howdy! Thanks @chetfaliszek.bsky.social for the invite :)

I'm gonna be using this space to post on my current indie game, Build Fight Game (peterkcodes.itch.io/build-fight-game)

The project is still pretty early days, but there's some neat stuff!

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love writing comments to myself in version control