Ioannis Koukourakis

Parallax Mapping is now in too. It might not be popular relative to other features, but the number of visual tricks you can pull off with it makes it absolutely essential to me.

I realized I hadn't really tested the engine's interior lighting capabilities yet, so I threw some boxes together for a quick test. No shadows from point lights yet, and no GI of any sort, but still pretty decent results.
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Hey Robin, thank you! 🙏
Yes, project has always revolved around a short game I have in mind. Went like, "What do I want to build, what tools do I need, and how can this significantly speed up my workflow compared to a generic engine? But yeah, it's a free-time project so my goals are very loose.

I haven't been posting much, but after about 10 months, the goal is nearly achieved. I now have a proper game engine and toolset! I'm shifting my focus to the fun part. Making that small proof of concept game I had in mind. Time to put the tech to the test! #gamedev

YouTube video by frictionalgames Frictional_Next_Project.mp4

What's this? A new game perhaps? 😌 youtu.be/SmHnnvQQxaE?...

Github repo:
github.com/ioannis-kouk...

Updated my Quake-style lights addon for Godot to v2.1.1. Check the changelog below for details. I hope it lights up your projects!

Pace slowed down lately with other stuff taking over, but I managed to find time this week to create this very basic material editor for the engine.

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Simple shadow mapping in action. Quite a bit of a visual improvement since last week.

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Experimenting with skies, reflections, and ambient lighting. Obviously wip, not properly implemented with pbr yet. Shadows are up next.

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A very early version of the renderer, but making some progress.

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Added static sky support. I might look into dynamic blending and weather effects down the road.

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The execution has always been easy. It’s the game design based on the available resources that takes the most effort.

Materials now support emission and transmission.

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How it started vs. how it's going #2.

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Thank you! It's just a side project but squeezing in a couple of focused hours daily is paying off!

Some good progress this week. PBR deferred rendering up and running. Lighting seemed tricky, but normal mapping took things to a whole new level of madness!

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Renderer refactoring in progress. Getting somewhere.

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After over 6.5 years and 3 amazing projects, last Friday was my last at Frictional Games. Working with such brilliant minds blew my expectations away. Learned tons, made awesome friends, and I’m crazy proud of this epic chapter. Sad to say goodbye, but also hyped for the future!

Holy 💩 man! You’re killing it! Impressive progress.

One last addition before jumping into lighting and graphics. Added a simple GUI to manage entity components. A bit rough around the edges, but good enough for now.

Added file access GUI. Handy for quickly managing assets and testing environments as I get into rendering.
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Hey neighbor! Regards from Crete❤️

Didn't think about it yet. Any ideas? 🙂

Today's progress: I’ve added the ability to select and manipulate multiple entities simultaneously.

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Adding, duplicating, and deleting entities is possible in my custom game engine editor now. It's slowly coming together. I still need to implement basic component management before diving into graphics.

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I really like AnKi's lighting aesthetics! There's a certain identity to it.

Late-night progress. Starting to look like an actual game engine editor.

A humble start for the editor GUI, paired with a very interesting bug 🚀