#devtober day 6, step 1 of fixed camera parity Unglamourous afternoon of porting the original code for the Fixed camera mode into unity to replace my placeholder approach with spherical coords. Big highlight of the day was Rain from the quest64 discord matching the function so quickly.

#devtober day 5, sub evaluators While I could poll the original map + camera data from an area, I could not do this with multiple sources. Today's work was to add support for an evaluator to have "sub evaluators" which will help with interiors like dondoran and the monastery.

#devtober day 4 - using the original fixed camera system. Dondoran's U-shaped secret room is a good example of this, as the upstairs balcony is actually on the same submap and let me swap between the default camera mode and a fixed one. This will hopefully replace my sea of indoor virtual cameras.

#devtober day 3 - decal shadows for areas with indirect light. This was partly in yesterday's, but I'm trying to incorporate a slight decal shadow for actors to use in some lighting conditions. Trying just realtime shadows presented an odd look when moving through patchy shadows like canopies.

#devtober day 2, circle alignment. Continuing the process of gutting the placeholder systems and replacing them with the decomp results. Today's was getting the random battle check to use the original's circle data. This neatly (and thankfully) replaces the shaky procedural system I'd attempted.

#devtober day 1 - WIP terrain elevation alignment for the original Quest map data. I have spent the last few weeks working on tool development to align Unity terrains and geometry with an exported version of the original stuff. Unity's sparse terrain docs mean this is mostly trial and error lol.

Spent the last few weekends working on a way to export the original map data into a unity-friendly format to reference as I build out each area. This has been surprisingly tedious (impossible without quest's decomp team), but there's a unique feeling when farfetched ideas start to take shape. 🧵

About a month ago, Mallos matched the Quest 64 combat camera code in the decomp project, which helped explain why my own attempt felt off. The original cuts the arena into slices and applies an angle offset depending on where Brian is.

Been working over the last few weekends to have the camera system more closely match what we're finding in the Quest 64 decomp effort. I'd originally built the camera system with a spherical coordinate system, but the original project uses something closer to cylindrical coordinates.

Streamed some of the frog knight integration yesterday, which has become one of my favorite parts of the project. This hobby can be a slog sometimes, so audibly sighing when something imports upside down or t-poses into heaven is nice. If anyone wants to take a stab at texturing this guy, lmk!

Been stuck in a motivation slump lately, so I am revisiting old problems that I couldn't solve with the Dive project's demo. The first was to incorporate a lean similar to 2B's from nier automata. It's still not perfect, but it feels subtle enough to give the polish I wanted.

Afternoon gang. 👋 I spent the weekend trying to make a procedural boundary / cliff system using Sebastian Lague's spline system, which ended up being 30 open tabs to read unity's ProBuilder scripting docs. It's not perfect and some of the fringe cases don't behave, but we're slowly getting there.