Samuel Lundsten

Slowing down the execution time and popping the hood

Trees starting to look promising. Shaders control sprite selection so outlines hug the forest edges like a drawn map. Cities use a similar approach but with radius controlling sprite step offset and scale.

Map art or pixel art?

@Vynien Truth be told, this is actually done in 3D space. So there is no proper pixel pixel art processes going on except nearest neighbor filtering.

@SamuelLundsten Love the direction Godots been going! So many amazing improvements over the years. If you have any add-on recommendations or methods to get as clean pixel art for an open world map I’m wanting to build I’d love your feedback.

Occasional pixel art detour: Maps edition.

@Vynien Built in Godot!

@SamuelLundsten Id love a tool like this. What’s it built in? 😮

@Just_Game_Dev Agreed 😅

@SamuelLundsten *sigh* too rare updates

This was an interesting alternative to the typical static graph exploration.

Exploring an interactive force-directed graph. Love watching it spring and settle with the connections from a minimum spanning tree or a Gabriel graph.

@CryptoSpaces1 Tolkien-inspired analogue game maps!

@SamuelLundsten You drew maps as a kid? What kind of maps? Of what?

Making my map prototype interactive took me back to drawing maps as a kid.

@JamesBerkelmans Yep! But they are 3D billboards so i could easily convert to other meshes if i want.

@SamuelLundsten Super cool. Is this player facing?

@BunBo60 The agent is separate from the graphics, so i just move the graphics in Y with abs(sin(distance travelled)) or something like that.

@SamuelLundsten Looks cool! 😎😎 Can you tell me how you handle the troops' movement so that they slightly hop up and down while moving?

Trying to figure out vertical traversal for joystick-based agent steering.

@jrysana Indeed!

@SamuelLundsten is this wave function collapse?

Slowing down the execution time and popping the hood

@jrysana They try to move perpendicular in the closest axis to the target. But would be fun to add vector fields and area avoidance.

@SamuelLundsten whhat happen if 1 little cute sheepie get styuck behind tree?

Exploring some player-driven flock behavior. Sheep are the obvious choice.

@mreliptik Yep! Boids with some extra layers

@SamuelLundsten Nice! Boids algorithm or something different?

Maybe my procedural keypose-to-keypose spring interpolation isn’t ideal for full characters, but it was a fun idea overshooting rotations. Hyaa!

This is what happens when you've exhausted your creativity.

@Epam00 Godot & Blender was used!

@SamuelLundsten I look actually cool funnyy, what did u use to make it?

Now and then, I open this up and watch the procedural animation, amused by how silly it looks.

@FabienWeibel I was thinking of a physics joint tongue 😄 but a bowtie also sounds like a good fit

@SamuelLundsten I think he needs a bowtie