Have improved the look of the storms in Scorcing Engines, think it's a massive improvement :)) (Last image is what it looked like before) #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #art

Damn, youtube really is trying to replace everyone with ai... I can use ai generated replies to comments on my devlog?? Why would I want to do all that work with gamedev, devlogging and then NOT respond with my own words??? Goddamit YT #fuckai #gamedev #solodev #ai #indiedev #devlog

Finally finished with the next devlog for Scorching Engines! Just took way longer than expected haha www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOfk... #gamedev #devlog #indiedev #solodev #indiegame #devblog #gamedevelopment #fpsgame

When you want to run, but it's cold and snowy outside, and then you see your watch has 1% battery. Got an excuse not to run now, atleast for the next 15 minutes ((((: #run

Tweaked the sky and clouds to look better, and less grey as it was making the game kinda ugly looking haha #indiegame #indiedev #graphics #unity3d

Still working on the devlog, so much work haha. especially the task of finding relevant clips, without having too much simillar / duplicate footage :& #indiegame #devlog #gamedev #solodev

Apparently Scorching Engines is cpu-bottlenecked, (on my system atleast, 7600x with a 6750xt gpu), but "only" by ~1 ms so nothing that major. Still, it gives me an excuse to do some optimizations haha #indiegame #profiling #gamedev #optimization #unity3d

Devlog work is progressing, but still a good deal left. If only I had more free time to work :((( #indiegame #indiedev #hobbydev #solodev #devlog #gamedev

So it begins Devlog 10 #indiegame #devlog #gamedev

Since physics and left over entities were slowing the game down a fair bit when exploring i've started working on despawning whole bandit camps and all their clutter (and then it respawns if players get closer) #indiegame #gamedev #openworld #infinite #procedural #optimization #unity3d #solodev

Game is beginning to look pretty acceptable :) #indiegame #gamedev

Have made it so clutter in the bandit camps only becomes dynamic when you get close enough. (Exagerated activation distance in the video + too low update frequency) So that there'll be less physics load when not in bandit camps and other places with clutter :) #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #unity3d

Gotta love that my game is less than 500MB, and that the bundle that steam downloads is so small. Makes my life easier when I need to compare something against whats on steam

Have made the terrain deletion in scorching engines much faster and lessened its impact on the framerate via paralleized distance checks, and terrain deletion spread over multiple frames #indiegame #solodev #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

Chaged rotation when building to the mouse wheel. Either click it and drag with the mouse, or use the scroll wheel (and press control to slow down rotation) Before it was left click to go from move -> rotate mode and then left click again to build, which made it difficult align #indiegame #gamedev

Finally got around to improving the lighting in the billboard LOD, still not perfect, but a lot better. + adding actual billboarding so they look at camera imgsli.com/NDQxNTYx And when there's fog and post processing it's even better still #indiegame #gamedev #graphics #shaders #indiedev #solodev

Aaaaand its fixed! Colliders were being dumb since they were dynamic (for ragdolling on death) but now they're kinematic and just toggle on death instead) #indiegame #fps #gamedev #solodev

As part of the work Im doing polishing my game a bit before getting more playtesting done, Ive realised that the shooting and enemy colliders are being dumb :( But luckily the bullet collision are fixed now, and im fixing the colliders being weird. Gaps in the raycasting, and enemy collider shaking

Finally got the tutorial texts on the vehicle fixed. (There's problems with having gameobjects follow entities in Unity DOTS, but UI can't be entities. But found a DOTS Textmesh github repo with a solution) Looks so much better, and makes the game feel less cheap haha #indiegame #unity3d #gamedev

Now the crafting bench will only craft if there's room for the crafted item. (before the crafted item got deleted when crafting finished☠️) #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #unity3d #crafting #survivalgame #survivalfps #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Have finally gotten around to uploading my devconsole changes as a package, and fixing the bugs that were annoying me. Namely commands sometimes getting executed multiple times, boolean parameters not working, and command suggestions not being fuzzy searches github.com/ThorWhitemou... #indiegame

Finally got around to replacing the blockout car model with some actual car looking models, so the cities are less placeholder :) #indiegame #post-apocalypse #apocalyptic #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

A minor thing, but something that's annoying nonetheless, there was a 1 frame flicker when moving items around in the inventory... No idea why, but it's fixed now atleast :) #indiegame #uiux #gamedev #solodev #sologame #indiedev

So apparently you can put light cookies on the sun in Unity... Interesting #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #unity3d #indiedev

Ooooppppsiiieeee,, never made the trees stop spawning sound effects for being felled. So they just keep spamming haha #indiegame #audio #fps #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Ehm.... yeah i'd say that the floating origin and navmeshes is an easy thing to work on.. I haven't just accidentally stacked all terrain navmeshes on top of each other (((: #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #navmesh

Floating origin and shifting navmeshes around the player, wooo Faster terrain generation since it doesn't generate navmeshes far from player (where enemies won't path anyways) higher quality navmeshes so enemies can path around small obstacles, #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #navmesh

aaah, yes. That's correct Jetbrains, I didn't want "enemy ai" to mean "enemy artificial intelligence", of course I wanted it to mean "enemy three-toed sloth" #indiediev #solodev

Aaaand terrain spawning is fixed now, so there's no more gaps :) Now just to fix all the other bugs caused by the floating origin.... yay... #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #fps

Just a small issue with the terrain spawning haha (still working on a floating origin for Scorching Engines) #indiegame #gamedev #unity3d #indiedev

Just got some playtesting done for my game, Scorching Engines, and got some valuable feedback from it :)) Now to get to work and improve the existing features instead of adding more haha #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #playtest #indiedev

So the vehicle refuses to respect gravity when using the floating origin... HMMMMM. #indiegame #gamedev #solodev

Slow progress with the floating origin for Scorching Engines, currently working on an annoying bug related to the terrain deformation #indiegame #solodev #gamedev

Working on adding a floating origin system to the game, and as part of that I had to replace the raycast based resource spawning system to sample terrain height instead So now its really fast spawning, if you look on the far edge of terrain where its spawning #indiegame #indiedev #procgen #solodev

Working on adding in floating origin to my game, as the recent playtesting proved that floating point errors prove to be an issues pretty quickly :((( (agressive floating origin for easier demo. 150m vs prob 2000 m for real) #indiegame #gamedev #unity3d #floatingorigin #solodev #infinite #procgen

Just added in a check for the colony spawning to prevent it from spawning on steep slopes as it made certain parts unreachable and looked weird in combination with the terrain deformation #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegames #unity3d #procgen #terraingen

Have made it so that if you're inside a storm, it'll get way foggier to distrupt your vision more, and make it look snowier (Will also increase the number of snow flakes) #indiegame #scorchingengines #indiedev #solodev #snowpiercer #frostpunk

Have added a way to have entities have a gameobject navmesh obstacle proxy that follows them around with the same size. Need it to have my gates and other dynamic entities affect the navmesh :) (Entities can't affect gameobject navmesh) #solodev #gamedev #unitydots #dots #ecs #indiedev #indiegame

Adding a dev console to the game is really t he best thing I've ever done when it comes to saving time and developing faster Like I got commands that save me like 10-30 minutes of playtime #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #console #commands #screenshotsaturday

Been playing a bunch of Arc Raiders, and honestly it's a shame that it's using UE5 (in the way that the engine puts a massive weight on temporal solutions to fix graphics (solve dithered hair and grass, etc) and improve performance. But instead it just turns into a smeary mess with ghosting :( #ue5

Poor enemy, they're too dumb to drive :(( #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #ai

Gotta love the enemies not respecting my walls and just driving straight through them haha #indiegame #gamedev #ai

Adding a seperate layer to the start area, and making the city content spawning be blocked by that also, prevent city buildings and resource zones in citites to be spawned in or near the facility Exaggerated in the right pic to show it more clearly with the small grey cells #indiegame #gamedev #fps

Aaaand we've got a new build menu, that shows the required resources to build it. As apparently I'd forgotten that before haha #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #unity3d

Got a rudimentary FOV slider, that I have no idea why I waited so long to add haha (options menu is very much temporary) #indiegame #gamedev

hmmmm.... I might have gone overboard with the debug lines this time around.... #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Aaaand we've got navmeshing for the colony. Apparently I'd forgotten that haha #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

Okay I've fixed the bugs with the POI cell system, and now it works pretty well. And here's a look at it from far away. The large red cells are city zone buffers, preventing cities from spawning too close (~15km) Then there's bandit camps in yellow, and resource zones in blue. #indiegame #gamedev

welp... that didn't go as expected, my poor poor ram

I've said it before, but I LOOOVE debug lines. Refactored the content spawning systems in my game (cities, bandit camps, resource zones, and other POIs) so that they use a shared gridcell system with layers Now I can debug it to see cells in use and buffers #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #solodev