been working on logic and reusing effects/sounds/etc as placeholders for making sure the logic works correctly. two stage alt fire plasma cannon, done! only two more 'implemented weapon' alt fires to go, the laser and shard grinder. after that, the last 2 weapons #godotengine #madeingodot #solodev

doing rain work in the rudimentary test level. a lot of backend work lately but ive been playing so much death stranding 2 lately that i just felt like I had to get the rain right #solodev #godotengine #madeingodot #screenshotthursday

it snew ...in space. working on particle systems some more, this time finished a snow effect #solodev #godotengine #godot #madeingodot

was inspired by pigface and the division to do the same tech but in Godot in my game! equal power crossfading curves for a 10 meter long raycast above my head plus AudioStreamSynchronized tracks equals immersive 'under the overhang' or 'inside a building' #godotengine #godot #solodev #madeingodot

gitlab.com/worstconcept... nonchip just wrote a great safe resource loader for loading external resources (see: save files, character creation) that I will be using in my project. Warning: uses ord() which is added in 4.5 dev 3 so this will be a 4.5 plugin #godot #godotengine #solodev #gamedev

upgraded to godot 4.5 beta 4, with @nonchip.de 's resource loader. fixed a ton of issues as well as fully implemented said loader with the newly created .wcsj format. Now we can all put the 'but resource files are UNSAFE!!' thing to rest for a bit #godotengine #solodev #godot #saferesourceloading

gitlab.com/worstconcept... nonchip just wrote a great safe resource loader for loading external resources (see: save files, character creation) that I will be using in my project. Warning: uses ord() which is added in 4.5 dev 3 so this will be a 4.5 plugin #godot #godotengine #solodev #gamedev

i put development on hold for a bit playing death stranding 2, but I had a sudden urge to create a save/load system using the ResourceSaver and the plugin for SafeResourceLoader, and hook it up to an Area3D for 'touch this zone and it will save all your progress' #godotengine #madeingodot #solodev

Once again shouting out Vivid/Stasis, which left early access the other day and went up in price to... Free. Half Uchikoshi-inspired genre-hopping visual novel. Half 4-button rhythm game (80+ tracks with 3-4 charts each!) with a dash of cypher-cracking brain-buster ARG. Somehow this is just free.

a lot of backend cleanup signal, script, export wise while i remain in development holding pattern for 4.5. did a ton of backend work to make the shards embed in stuff the way i wanted #madeingodot #screenshotsunday #godotengine #solodev

preparing for 4.5 so i'm in a bit of a stall, but I rewrote my screenshot function to use a new texture_get_data_async() function in 4.4. expect to see a new Godot Barn post about it, i labeled my first one as 'simpler'

fixed recoil, big work on snells window in water shader, changed omnilight attenuation to 2.0 , particle size variation, some script changes, added time_correction to animated shaders, enemy effect manager for queueing effects, segmented audio work, and much more #godotengine #madeingodot #solodev

Opened an official issue for this on Godot's proposals github. This allows the ability to assign external materials to imported meshes like in Godot 3. Give it your thumbs up and blessings github.com/godotengine/... #godotengine #godot #godotproposals #screenshotsaturday

github.com/godotengine/... Kenney brought this up and I agree with him, so if you use Godot, give this a thumbs up! This is a really important feature imo #godotengine #madeingodot #godot #screenshotsaturday

new shotgun model, the LOTUS motif is beginning to take shape, etc etc etc. very happy with how dev is going tonight. nice chunky ass ultra shotgun. however, the loading animation for it was for an old model so i need to redo it cause it looks wrong now #godotengine #madeingodot #screenshotsaturday

some new models, some new shader tricks, some new implementations, more....stuff. made a tasty health pickup and a nice armor shard next up, making a new shotgun model to reflect more things #godotengine #madeingodot #solodev

new shard gun prototype model and animations and textures and visual effect. i need to figure out some of the parenting rotation stuff for rebinding cause idk #godotengine #madeingodot #solodev

A visual kind of day. New rocket smoke and made models, finally, for the jump pads. Probably not final, just wanted to not have a white box. #solodev #godotengine #madeingodot

much work done! omnilights don't play nice with viewmodel shaders so I created a next pass material with unshaded red on it to imitate one and it looks the same. next, did rocket launcher texture work. lastly, introduced an inverse lerp for railgun distance fade. #solodev #madeingodot #godotengine

spent all of today prototyping a new railgun model with special secondary animations for the first time in many, many months and i am so, so happy with it. i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #godotengine #solodev #madeingodot

the orange test hallway gibs. i need to figure out how to make decals less affected by the lighting but otherwise gibs are pretty much done structurally. yes i have Zircon on in foobar in the background #solodev #madeingodot #godotengine #screenshotmonday

did some 1024x1024 texture blender painting on the grenade launcher model. i really like what wear and tear adds to it #solodev #godotengine #madeingodot #screenshotsaturday

gibs now float underwater #godotengine #madeingodot #solodev #screenshotthursday

spent today doing gibbing refinement and it looks better than ever #solodev #godotengine #madeingodot #screenshotwednesday

i threw in some quake champions splat sfx and this is peak #solodev #godotengine #madeingodot #screenshottuesday

gibbing all scaffolded, i think sfx would really sell this finally but this works for now #madeingodot #godotengine #solodev #screenshottuesday

new grenade launcher model to test out an idea in my head. also finally replaced the pickup model from an icosphere and grenade from being a cylinder #solodev #godotengine #madeingodot #screenshotfriday

plasma gun iteration, alongside some tweaks. things just keep getting better!! rocket launcher animation stuff is pretty much done. also some environment testing and emissives. #madeingodot #godotengine #screenshotfriday #solodev

Work continues. rocket launcher logic is functionally done for alt fire now, just need to do some visual flairs on it. need to figure out how i want to animate the recoil for six rockets going off in 0.25 second intervals #godotengine #madeingodot #solodev #screenshotmonday

working on the rocket launcher's alt fire functionality. it's a cousin of UT99's but with a slightly different take. you can 'load up' rockets differently, and they all release sequentially. #godotengine #solodev #godot

Further weapon prototyping, replacing the old ass rocket launcher placeholder w something newer

figured out a direction for the prototype design of the laser and an idea for 'hiding' the end of the laser with a depth shaded billboarded gpuparticles3d #screenshotsaturday #godotengine #madeingodot #solodev

after a while of work on effects i've figured out some solution for framerate independence alongside new effects to help feedback #solodev #godot #madeingodot

underwater 'resistance' for projectiles, bubble line randomization, fixed expDecay placement, uids instead of filepaths, figured out i can do a second pass for rim lighting to make the texture brighter. i'm finally all '4.4' current now i think #solodev #godotengine #screenshotsaturday #godot4.4

rim lighting shader, underwater flags for physics, etc etc. and then i realize i did the flags wrong for explosions at the very end. moved to AgX tonemapping too, and since i'm on 4.4 physics interpolation is all up and running! #solodev #godotengine #madeingodot #godot4.4

particle testing continues, with an is_underwater boolean that uses GPUParticles3D for a Quake II 'bubble trail' effect. #solodev #madeingodot

doing particle system testing. successful: particle systemss along a line between two vector3 that remain at the same interval, color ramps, etc #solodev #madeingodot

watching some le lu vfx stuff and learning about explosions! it looks 1000x better already #madeingodot #godotengine #solodev

stayathomedev's GPUparticle + omnilight based muzzle flash, i modified this to scaffold all sorts of potential implementations with rockets, weapons, etc. looks much better than I expected just with a square gradienttexture2d, not even a custom texture! #godotengine #screenshotsaturdays #madeingodot

Dev is back underway. Doing bullet decal work.

When I go in on a huge rpg i'm locked in. Getting close to the end

Now that christmas is over, just have to finish a game or two and get back to dev Need to do some more enemy work and waiting for the shoe to drop on 4.4 release

scaffolding continues with some other bug fixes and implementation on these goofy placeholder enemies #solodev #madeingodot #godotengine

boing! doing refinement of placeholder enemy behavior for scaffolding #solodev #godot #madeingodot #godotengine

not only are melee enemies now working but so are projectile enemies #solodev #godot #madeingodot #godotengine

I'm very happy to report that Godot just merged the integration of Jolt Physics, as an experimental alternative to Godot's own 3D physics engine. github.com/godotengine/... #GodotEngine

my first enemy in this project! a 10-minute blender hackery model with goofy animations but i wanted to scaffold all the enemy AI/navmesh stuff. has a radius for if it hears a gunshot, chases the player. takes damage, has three states rn - idle, attacking or dead #solodev #godotengine #madeingodot

underwater stuff final pass functionally #godotengine #solodev #madeingodot

underwater caustics, fog decision, underwater, etc all done for now i think. weirdly difficult to resolve shader involving gold noise and worley #godotengine #solodev #madeingodot