Procedural GPU Patterns #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial part 1: Sine Waves is finally here! catlikecoding.com/godot/proced...

Another GPU noise tutorial preview with #GodotEngine, now with vertex offsets.

AnyDice is running again! Unfortunately program links starting at 23 March couldn't be recovered.

My tutorials are back online!

Why my websites are down: Basically my web host has been obliterated by a cPanel/WHM exploit which took out many websites worldwide. All I can do is wait until they clean things up and then I'll restore the websites.

My next tutorial series will cover GPU noise. Initially for #GodotEngine, and also for #Unity3d. This screenshot shows colorized radial-falloff gradient noise, with fading octaves, adaptive super-sampling, and analytical normals.

We use a compute shader to create a 3D color LUT in Custom SRP 6.2.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial. catlikecoding.com/unity/custom...

In the final part of the True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial series we add energy barriers that block the player: catlikecoding.com/godot/true-t...

In Custom SRP 6.1.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial we add a debug visualization for the color LUT. It'll come in handy when we modernize it in the future. catlikecoding.com/unity/custom...

We make editing teleporters easier in True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial part 15: catlikecoding.com/godot/true-t...

Hex Map #unity3d #gamedev tutorial project's final menu upgrade: the Save/Load menu. This completes our migration to UI Toolkit. catlikecoding.com/unity/hex-ma...

The New Map menu of Hex Map #unity3d #gamedev tutorial project gets upgrade to UI Toolkit: catlikecoding.com/unity/hex-ma...

True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev part 14 add a pause menu to our game, from which we can resume or restart the current map. catlikecoding.com/godot/true-t...

We upgrade the Hex Map #unity3d #gamedev #tutorial project to use the new input system: catlikecoding.com/unity/hex-ma...

True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial part 13 introduces conveyors, to push objects and ourselves around. catlikecoding.com/godot/true-t...

We upgrade our Custom SRP project to Unity 6.3, and... it fails to render. So we fix that in the 6.0.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial! Native render passes are now supported and we get the Render Graph Viewer working again. catlikecoding.com/unity/custom...

True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial part 12 adds teleporters to our game. The player can teleport itself and objects from source to destination areas. When a destination is occupied teleportation is blocked, which can be used for creative level design. catlikecoding.com/godot/true-t...

In Maze 5.1.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial we add windows to the walls of our maze so we can look through them. catlikecoding.com/unity/maze/5...

In part 11 of the True Top-Down 2D #gamedev tutorial series for #GodotEngine 4 we add the best map scores to our game's HUD. catlikecoding.com/godot/true-t...

In Custom SRP 5.1.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial we convert some of our unsafe passes to raster render passes. catlikecoding.com/unity/custom...

New native AnyDice functions: [highest 2 of 4d6 and 2d8] and lowest variant. This saves you the trouble of defining it yourself. They're also a tiny bit faster, but nothing significant. anydice.com

True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial part 10: This time we add more info to our game's HUD. We show the valid and total detector count. We also show the travel distance and keep track of the best one per map. catlikecoding.com/godot/true-t...

Small new AnyDice QoL feature: You can now trigger calculation by pressing Ctrl/Cmd/Meta + Enter in the text area. anydice.com

This time we have a small Hex Map #unity3d #gamedev tutorial, to improve the player experience when editing maps. We make drawing rivers more pleasant. catlikecoding.com/unity/hex-ma...

True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial part 9: This time we add a simple HUD to our game, showing the current map name and how long the player has been on it. We also keep track of the best map-completion time and show when a new best time is achieved. catlikecoding.com/godot/true-t...

Maze 5.0.0 #unity3d #gamedev #tutorial: We spice up our maze with ornaments, making it more interesting to look at and a bit easier to recognize areas we've already visited before.

True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial part 8: saving progress:

Custom SRP 5.0.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial, switching to unsafe passes.

True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial part 7: map transitions:

Hex Map 4.0.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial, replacing uGUI panels with UI Toolkit ones.

True Top-Down 2D #GodotEngine #gamedev tutorial part 6, multiple maps:

Maze 4.0.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial goes Unity 6 and UI Toolkit:

True Top-Down 2D #godotengine #gamedev tutorial part 5, detectors:

Custom SRP 4.0.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial migrates our RP to Unity 6.

Part 4 of my True Top-Down 2D #godotengine #gamedev tutorial series adds light and shadow.

Custom SRP 3.2.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial simplifies things a bit, in preparation for the migration to Unity 6.

Part 3 of my True Top-Down 2D #gamedev tutorial series for #GodotEngine 4 adds movable objects that can be pushed around.

Maze 3.0.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial changes how we build cells.

Custom SRP 3.1.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial adds settings for our Forward+ renderer. We also mark the lights-per-object mode as obsolete.

I have upgraded my True Top-Down 2D #gamedev tutorial project for #GodotEngine to Godot 4.3.

Hex Map 3.4.0 #unity3d #gamdev tutorial, turning the cell class into a struct.

Part 2 of my True Top-Down 2D #gamedev tutorial series for #GodotEngine 4 adds a player character.

Custom SRP 3.0.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial introduces simple Tiled Forward+ rendering.

Part 1 of my new True Top-Down 2D #gamedev tutorial series for #godotengine has been released!

Hex Map 3.3.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial stores cell data differently and decouples map generation and visualization from the HexCell class.

Custom SRP 2.5.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial switches to structured buffers for light and shadow data.

Ok, things have settled down IRL. Of course then I get sick. So far, this year has been full of surprises. Sorry about the content drought. I'm slowly working on the next tutorial.

Hex Map 3.2.0 #unity3d #gamedev tutorial continues slimming down hex cells. Search and visibility data moves from the cells to the grid.

Sorry for the lack of tutorials lately. Lots of stuff has been happening IRL for me. I plan to publish a new one next week.

Part 5 of my #gamedev introduction tutorial series for #godotengine 4 is about going from GDScript to C#, and then using both together.