It's really annoying me that the frame presentation system is the only C++ file because bloody Microsoft quietly dropped C support for D2D

Think I'm gonna leave this unused byte in open cells unused by the engine so the game can use it to trigger events or something like that

Still not thought of a name for this engine yet and having to use a placeholder

Is the search function fucked for everyone else?

COME AT ME STEVE JOBS ILL KNOCK YOU OUT

Make the light flicker very slowly then add some noise and you've got a horror game

I know plenty of people will hate it but this effect the darkness has on sampled textures is my favourite thing about 15-bit graphics

After wanting to pull my hair out half way, I'm having fun with this engine now

Fun things can happen when you mess lighting up!

Since everything works now I'm wondering if I should lower the fixed point precision. Right now it's a 32 bit value split in half for the whole number and the fraction but maybe I should have like a 22/10 ratio so I can do open worlds easier

A smart person would make a modular rendering engine so they're not restricted to making 1 style of game but I'm not a smart person

Halfway through changing floats to fixed point and it's starting to look like my problem was an overflow

Getting your tism jizm on the sofa :(

If GPU manufacturers released technical details about their hardware I'd try making my own graphics API like Vulkan but obviously simpler

Game dev friends, I am looking for any resources on making 3D outdoor levels based on real life locations because I'm trying to make a game based on real life locations and am thirsty for learning.

On the wards we couldn't even have a pint while out on leave. Like obvs for the adolescent wards but the adult ones should've allowed us to have a bit on special occasions

Luke Skywalker I'll sort you out you silly prat

Game Of Groans because I can't walk all that way

Also gonna definitely add bilinear sampling to smooth out textures. Gonna be optional though in case people want the blocky pixels jumping all over the place when things are getting closer/further away

Like I don't really need the performance boost yet but do you think mipmapping will improve caching with a software render?

I get told off by the psych team for chatting shit because sometimes they struggle to tell if I'm just messing about or having an episode

I won the Nobel Piece Prize. They really liked my Piece

I will NOT give up on this!

So the weird wobbly walls aren't here on the rewrite of the renderer but its (mostly) using floats. Gonna go through it and changed them to fixed point tomorrow and that'll let me know if its a limitation of the precision I'm using or something else

After finding some fun effects for fake 3D environments I kinda want to make a retro RTS

Rewriting the raycaster with floats to see if that'll make a difference

Decided what game i want to make but its not an fps so....

H O T T O G O, I just played some yu-gi-oh

Keir Starmer just did a poo but it was disappointingly small

I bet that fucking "never ending" story did end though dint it

I too like it loud, Mr Scooter

So where are we putting our games now that Itch fucking sucks

All my rays. Casted!

Today I'm exploring RAM

Been reading up on the cold war and from what I gather America decided to start it just because they didn't like communism

This Captain Kirk is a Sweaty Fella

These new headphones fucking suck! They pick up my farts when I'm on the phone and now everyone knows when I fart!

Captain Pike can get some

Why does Spock sound like his voice is 8 bit

Star Heck

Tomorrow I'm gonna look into rewriting the preparation and casting stages of the raycaster. The rendering of floors and ceilings works fine but I think there's something off with the wall casting part

Back in my day you used to stick 3 riz together

Looking for rounding errors is the most unfun thing ever

Really need to figure out where my maths are wrong

Like 90% of me making engines is just optimising them

Okay so I got rid of the black pixels between walls and walls problem but now the black pixels between walls and floors/ceilings has come back and I think its something to do with this wobbly wall problem

I will NEVER be H O T T O G O

Think I best make an Aseprite export script so I don't have to keep manually converting textures one pixel at a time

Someone smarter than me want to explain why the exact same code I used yesterday performs better today?

Some people fart when they shit, get over it