at the moment, animations are constant keyed in blender, and then interpolated engine-side moving forward I want to mirror blender's keyframe interpolation for a better workflow #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

another pretty significant milestone in my game engine: animated models bones and weights come from Blender, uses GPU skinning. right now keyframes are static with hard-coded interpolation #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

focused a lot on tidying up the SSAO and other rendering bugs, and also implemented FXAA+MSAA everything's starting to look nice now. not perfect, but a lot closer #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

the best part about programming a game engine as opposed to most software is bugs materialize as visible horrors and I love that added render scaling to help with AA and forgot to tell the SSAO about it #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

implemented runtime palette overrides for models, so I can customize things in-engine this is done per-spawn rather than per-model, so allows me to get a lot of variety out of a single model #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

working on colours for models, going with a simple palette approach (swappable at runtime) started with blender integration first #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

striving to keep the iteration loop as tight as possible meant I needed to go from blender to engine as quickly as possible no intermediate format or steps, just straight out and in, no reload required #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

ditched the testing cubes, first pass at implementing custom models (geometry only right now) #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

sometimes the smallest changes have the biggest impact... sounds deep but i'm just talking about this local transform mode I added to the editing mode #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

went back to the traditional approach for shadows and decided to optimize it a bit 8k resolution was massively overkill and eating VRAM, so dropped it to 2k and bumped from 2 -> 4 cascades no visible difference, but 10x less VRAM usage #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

prototyped an SDF approach for lighting/shadows, significantly better on VRAM but chews the frame budget even at 256 resolution probably could optimize this, but think I'll stick with traditional approach for now #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

added an atlas array texture so local shadows are cheaper, not sure if this is the best approach yet #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

first attempt at local shadows for point/spot lights, a bit hacky under the hood but it works well as a base #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

spent a lot of time fiddling with this and fixing various bugs, but finally got the shadow maps to a place I'm really happy with #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

still more work to be done on shadow maps but side-tracked and got SSAO implemented first debated SDFAO, but for the purposes SSAO looks good, will probably keep it #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

hacked together a very rough shadow map prototype. right now it's just a single 2048x2048 map, depth-only FBO next step is CSM with a near/far cascade and work from there #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

added some stylized banding to the lights as a test. this will fit better with the intended style I think it has an OSRS vibe to it, which is clearly an inspiration so far #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

...and of course, some spot lights too. essentially the same as point lights but using cone fallout with an inner/outer radius #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

second pass on the lighting, got some point lights going (standard lambert) #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

after adding smoothed normals, I wanted to play about with smoothing the terrain colours. nothing fancy, just bilinear interpolation.. i don't think I'll be keeping this #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

added area-weighted normal smoothing for the terrain as a test i like it more than I thought I would, so now it brings into question my texel-per-tri terrain painting, but lots of time to play about with it #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

implemented first lighting pass with a simple half-lambert and a fake bounce light, lots more to do and play about with this but happy with the initial pass #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

added a tween system to the engine and this was obviously the best way to test that it was working 🦆🦆🦆 #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

prototyped object placement for the engine; basic placement and manipulation it's starting to feel like a real game engine? #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

fun-fact: in a video game, if you're not looking at something, it likely doesn't exist implemented frustum culling using the classic gribb/hartmann method, AABB testing on terrain chunks #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

in addition to the texel-per-tri terrain painting, I also added signed-distance field (SDF) stamping allows for more fun shapes without going into full-blown textures - and it fits the style #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

most important thing in game dev is quality-of-life features that shorten the workflow added a colour picker, samples from the frame buffer so can pick any colour from the screen #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

added deterministic value noise (hash2d with smoothstep curve) to the terrain painting this will work really well for adding an extra layer of detail to the world within the existing paint system #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

added support for per-triangle painting as well for the finer details.. paths, arrows, tiled floors etc #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

the falloff for terrain painting is controllable as well, which gives me the full range of soft vs harsh painting as needed #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

new terrain painting approach: texel-per-tri (maps a 256x256 RGB texture in 2x2 blocks to the tris) changed blending to snapshot-based max coverage - much happier! #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

first prototype for terrain painting, functionally great, but visually not a fan... looks too pixelated, and the blending is the wrong approach - had a better idea for tomorrow! #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

added a leveling tool to the terrain toolset for when i've made a mess of everything and need to put it back most satisfying addition yet #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

added a more subtle push/pull tool to the terrain editing suite... slightly addictive and yes I am making up the names as I go, sorry environment artists #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

time to become slartibartfast, prototyped some basic terrain editing tools with size/falloff making it so I can edit the game.. inside the game, was a great choice #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

made it so I can punch/repair holes in the terrain, will be super useful for sub-terrain features like caves or basements in the future ⛏️ #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

quite happy with terrain. each map tile consists of a 16x16 grid of chunks, each chunk is two grids of height integers, 129x129 for the corners and 128x128 for the center vertices, this forms a grid of 8x8 quads out of triangles #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

implemented map streaming into the engine, already pretty fun to fly around and watch things load in terrain is loaded zero-copy from virtual memory (mmap), and memory is pre-allocated based on render distance, so zero allocations/free at runtime #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

it's been 8 years since I uploaded a video, the last one did okay, so I figured I'd check the upload button still works www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjRM... #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

snuck in a new feature to wow.export the other day, you can now customize guild tabards for exporting! 💃 this was in response to a user asking how they could do this in the wow.export Discord, so if there's something you'd like to see, hop in and let us know #wow #3d #warcraft

no real game engine is complete without dear imgui, it's all coming together now! i made a quick devlog about this on my site, nothing fancy, but progress is being made www.kruithne.net/posts/2026-0... #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

made a post about adding Lua scripting support and a user interface into my game engine slowly crawling out of the boring stuff. as promised, it features a duck #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

made a data table system for my game engine, wrote a devlog entry about it two posts about data in two days, sorry not sorry. next post will include ducks to make up for it #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

new devlog on my site, this time I ramble about how I store/access data for my hand-made game engine (i promise they'll get more exciting) #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegames

In case you missed it, I'm starting a new adventure! This has been on the back-burner for the best part of a decade, but now I want to make it a reality.. I'm making a game! Three, actually. But first, I'm building my own game engine from scratch to make them in. #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame

wow.export 0.2.5 is now LIVE, let's goooo there's so much changed that bsky won't even let me put it all in this tweet so go check it out! #wow #warcraft

sorry but these new silvermoon statues from the Midnight beta are incredible??? #wow #warcraft

one of my all-time favourite things from world of warcraft is these old loading screens from the alpha client #wow #warcraft

in the latest version of wow.export you can preview animations for any model directly in the 3d preview you can then export these as gltf straight into your software of choice! #wow #warcraft

screw it, cheese boi