Plan This was a personal project to build ‘Betty’, transport ship from the movie ‘Alien Resurrection’, and probably my favourite spaceship design ever. I built 1:36 scale model replica of the spaceship from acrylic, chemiwood, resin and ABS. For the paint finish I used airbrushed enamel and washes of acrylic to create an aged effect. Screens...

Decided to move the blog from wordpress.com managed hosting over to github.io pages using the jekyll static site generator. My primary motivation was that I want to be able to embed any content on the blog, perhaps some canvas/opengl stuff in the future. I could have gone the self-hosted wordpress route but of course you have to pay a hosting fe...

Landscape Depth The landscape now has information in the Y axis(downward), as you dig the tiles change from soil to stone to granite. It’s kept quite simple at the moment but later I want to add further noise manipulation into the algorithm so that the player can find pockets of different types of rock as they dig. Excavation Tool I made some...

Orthographic vs Perspective Up until now I’ve had the game camera set up as an orthographic projection. Which gives a similar style to an isometric game but in 3D. I went for this initially because I wanted it to be reminiscent of games like Age Of Empires and RCT. It wasn’t until I started working on the construction tools that I realised how i...

Screen Space Ambient Occlusion Small update this time. I have started working a day job again and so haven’t spent much time on the game. For a bit of fun I’ve been thinking about implementing screen space ambient occlusion, something I haven’t written before. As I’ve been developing and experimenting with the game I’ve noticed issues with my e...

Nothing too major this update, I’ve been working on some other personal things the last month so I haven’t done anything major on the game. Updates Made it so an individual tile will highlight when hovered over with the mouse. You can now make square box selections with the mouse by clicking and dragging. Added a distance fog for when us...

For me, one of the most important parts of the world generation has to be the rivers. I feel like I rarely see genuine flowing rivers in games, especially not procedurally generated ones. Minecraft and NoMansSky have ‘rivers’ but they don’t really follow any logic, they don’t really flow, and have no clear end and start. This is because the worl...