... ok, what's the best intuitive name for this feature? - Bake RoadLanes (as is) - Make RoadLanes editable (kinda long?) - Expose RoadLanes (scandalous!) - Add RoadLane Children (confusing vs the on/off lane toggle?) - Persist RoadLanes (maybe??) - Convert RoadLanes (seems like the wrong verb)

Incoming: a small 🧵 of #godot Road Generators improvements inbound! First up - a much improved RoadLane visual for car-following paths (comes with a notable performance boost bonus, too). Merged to dev: github.com/TheDuckCow/g...

It's hard balancing promoting your own tools while acknowledging shortcomings, but sometimes you just gotta call it out. The #godot Road Generator indeed has flexible procedural intersections, but has awkward UX issues. Join the chat and see what I'm proposing here: github.com/TheDuckCow/g...

Heyo, the #Godot Road Generator is now on the [beta] asset store! Would love to get reviews from any current users, even if it's critical 😁 just takes a sign in, thumbs up/down, and an optional comment: store.godotengine.org/asset/theduc...

How my evening went: 1. Really need to finish rigging this car model we finished awhile ago 2. Now to test extreme poses 3. *moves top back* Oo looks like it's blowing away, could be fun to animate.... 4. Sometime later, posts render Animation is fun, should do little ones like this more often.

Was very excited to sign up for the Godot asset store! But now my username is stuck in limbo 😭 Pressing reset password for my username *does* generate new password email, but the email it's linked to must be tied to a new account I accidentally started creating, saying my username isn't available.

Made this feature after sitting in the back of my head for awhile. If you've setup a reusable *custom* mesh for a road segment/intersection, you can now set its material by specifying the meshes to influence. Makes it easy to reuse prefabs for different settings.

Working on another Road Generator demo scene - physics vehicle lane following (aka NPC car)! It's hard to find a balance of "make demo look good" but also having the code simple enough to be *just* a demo, I'm used to adding all sorts of extra mechanisms just to make driving look... okish

Another fun open movie - reminds me a bit of Sky Children of Light (aka a high compliment).

Round things are happening. Adding new hand modeled presets, will eventually guide how to make the procedural ones. All set up with AI lanes and everything! #godot #road #procgen

This has somehow become an accidental tradition. v0.9.0 indeed went out when we had ~900 stars. And at 998 right now, I'm hoping it helps manifest the v0.10.0 decoration release. ....I'm so ready to be done with weird vector-bezier curve math I've been wrangling 😂

Version 0.2.0 of Audiot was just released! This version includes automatic tagging based on universalcategorysystem.com #godot #audio

Our final 4.7 development snapshot arrives with #GodotEngine 4.7-dev5! Asset store overhaul, rectangular area light sources, inline text shader previews, and more await: godotengine.org/article/dev-...

Took me too long to recognize the root of my tilt-preserving woes: 1. Is simple and I'm just messing it up 2. Looks simple but isn't 3. Approach flawed at a mathematical level (bingo) Something-something power to know what I can code, what I can't, and wisdom to know the difference.

Just merged this demo scene to help validate the performance of various decoration types. Here, showing off multi-scene-instancing not being not very performant during frame refreshes. #godot #addon github.com/TheDuckCow/g... AKA I'm getting back into the swing here... lots to still sort out.

Me, returning to a WIP change from weeks ago and seeing this is where things left off (aka me using git stash and apply to go back and forth to test changes)

Though no really my genre, of course had to play Slay the Spire II as a #godot supporter. I feel privileged to see the non-ai-placeholder artwork while I still could 😁

Added a "wrap around" tick box to the RoadActor demo vehicle, super satisfying seeing the vehicles just loop around like this. Will be turning this into a broader decoration demo scene over time for the #godot road generator.

Time for some road addon decorations and WIP vehicle models! Check out the latest #godot #devlog here: www.patreon.com/posts/march-...

Happy birthday to @thekindkitten.bsky.social, co-lead on @wheelstealgame.com - hope you had a wonderful day!

Just had some breakthroughs on the new decoration system - mostly internal technicals about how to handle interpolation with traffic and easing, but instead of boring you here's an actual demo of the main feature itself - curbs, multi mesh, and single mesh placements! #godot #road #addon

I'm altering the decoration curve mathematics, pray I don't alter it any further #godot #road #addon #procgen

Can't wait for this one in particular, will make placement sooo much nicer - but also something I have a feeling a lot of people will miss given how it'll be a little hidden away github.com/godotengine/...

A short but noteworthy #devlog update - what secret could be in store?! (plus, enjoy some hot off the press art asset updates) www.patreon.com/posts/februa...

Getting real close to this major #godot road generator #addon update, hopefully tonight! One of the new updates is an integrated navigator between the different demo files, along with a "museum" scene to show off features - more to be added (and better annotated with a UI) in the future.

Greatest cybersecurity threat of our time looming, as the current admin attempts to eradicate HTTPS usage from every government site

This was 10x more interesting than the title. TIL that several zelda games, including the very first one (!) as well as Echos & Awakening's remake, only exist because Nintendo was *trying* to make a dungeon building game and it kept not working so they pivoted. youtu.be/TwpogEUowdI?...

So this was insanely fun, and my first time doing something like it (aside from go karting): Motor track day at the CA BMW performance center, where we learned how to push Mini Coopers to the limit! This video was my best run - landing me a silver medal for the day #racing #mini #cooper #irl

New one-click setup buttons working in action, making it easier to discover and actually start using the #godot Road Generator #addon with Terrain3D. The setting panel is procedural, so in theory we can add other connectors/you can define your own (missing plugin hooks to do so for now though)

Making a desktop pet instead of an "actual game" was a risk, but got me to round two of the #gdko jam! Though... next round's theme is "multifunctional level(s)", no idea how imma do that when it's just a floating transparent guy in the corner of your screen 😅 theduckcow.itch.io/blobie-nakie...

Took longer than I feel it should have, but got this dynamic-y settings panel. Kind of emulates the export vars section of the Inspector Panel to link together settings in two places without hard coding. #godot #road #addon

🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...

Ever feel like you're stuck on a path, and just wish there were different forks to take? Well now you can - at least if you're making a road game in #Godot! Check out procedural intersections and more in our latest #devlog This is a call for testers - check the link! www.patreon.com/posts/januar...

So uhhh procedural intersections just got merged to dev? Go have fun, ye aspiring civil engineers #godot #road #addon #procgen github.com/TheDuckCow/g...

When your database utilization looks like a star constellation. (screenshot nabbed while I was doing some storage cleanup, and I think auto dark mode turned to light with this sideffect)

Fast forward 1 week, and I've got myself a cute lil #godot desktop pet! This is my entry to this year's #gdko #gamejam round 1, focussed on customization - if I make it to the next round, I'll work on this guy a bit more. But in case you want him now: theduckcow.itch.io/blobie-nakie...

I've always been impressed with the engineering of floating bridges... but I guess I've always misunderstood what they meant by "floating"!

Messing around with multi / transparent window stuff. It's uhhhhhh going? Let's see where i can take this #gamejam #gdko Big kudos to this demo #godot project because fiddling with settings on my own wasn't getting me far github.com/geegaz/Multi...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Computer running slow, see godot editor just sitting "idly" in the background like

My first #blender "animation" of the year, which was a random self demo to help respond to a youtube comment asking how to store datablocks for reuse later in the context of the NLA editor. Always kinda fun mashing actions together like this hehe.

Did you know that about 100 trillion neutrinos pass through your body like every second? And once you wear this beanie, ... you'll still have as many passing through. To be fair this is irrelevant the faraday beanie's claims, I just find neutrinos kinda neat.

On an NYE whim I flipped through some old work. Sometimes I'm so engrossed in game dev (or trying to make time for it) I forgot about those older pieces I used to be so proud of. I don't really make scenes like this anymore but was always kind of fun. Done in #Blender in 2014, early days of Cycles.

What a year. 🐧 - Lots of progress on Penguin Festival - Released TWO trailers - A bunch of Godot PRs + free addons - Many fun experiments - Leveled up skills - Said bye to Meta - Worked out / lowered cholesterol / sugar - Continued therapy + self-discovery #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR

Took ages but I finally got there - the new connection tool UX and refactor is done so you can now create, move, delete, and dissolve all your road points + procedural intersections with ease. Try out the feature branch: github.com/TheDuckCow/g... #godot #godotengine #gamedev #addon #roads

This month's devlog packs a whole lot of road generator goodies for the end of the year - including procedural intersection progress, road-side decoration updates, and some cooking new UX interactions #godot #devlog www.patreon.com/posts/146328...

While reworking the connection UX tool for intersections, I got fed up with not having these shortcuts - already with the side adventure! Coming in the next Road Generator update, but still a WIP #godot #road #generator #addon

Very scary and sad to see the devastating floods of our nearby counties and cities - 100K person evacuation is wild, looks like hurricane damage. Happily donated to one of the official funds, one of those "every bit helps" even if it is a long road to recovery regardless: gofund.me/1add940a8

🌟 We're almost at 2,000 WISHLISTS on Steam 🌟 Help us get those last 18! Share with anyone: 🥽 Wanting to dust off their VR headset 🐧 Who loves playing as a cute animal 😎 Just likes being a goofy goober store.steampowered.com/app/3552090/... #vr #indiegames #cozygames

The same road you know and love from the last post, now in HD! (ie me testing with more realistic textures for once, and noting down lots of areas to eliminate repeating and stretching... but, not half bad to begin with, even with the intersection??) #godot #godotengine #road #gamedev