Ardaria - Survival | Creative

⚡Today I did something I never did 🔨 Fixing my #1 mistake in life 🤐 I've never been the kind of guy to reach out to build connections 🚫 This time is over 🏆 I'm proud of what I'm creating 📨 Today I applied to @speedrun SR0003 for @Ardaria #buildinginpublic #gamedev

🌞 GM Ladies & Gents, not everyday is a victory... 📕 But as I #buildinpublic, I also share my struggles 🟦 Working with a voxel open world presents challenges 🤖 Procedural generation == real time aka computation by code 🔮 Must be predictable → the code must always produce the same exact result 🤩 VoxelPlugin works to display a planet in the screen by using different “level of details” 🔭 Far away → a low details 3d model is used 🎨 Close → The Planet surface becomes more detailed --- 💥 Sampling the surface means "using collisions to find points on a 3D model" 💰 This process is expensive, approx 4 milliseconds, which is 1/4 of a frame at 60 FPS 🚫 Cannot do it all the time or the game is laggy --- 💎 The solution is to SAVE / CACHE the results ⚠️ But... 🚫 Because Voxel planet updates -> you will have different points between sampling... 💨 A village vanishing when you approach it? Not super immersive 🧙‍♂️ Being sure of the correctness of the point is HARD 🧐 Because you NEED the highest level of detail 🤯 Therefore, today I struggled to find a good solution... 😉 But I have an idea, see you tomorrow ! #gamedev #indiegames #developer #SoftwareEngineering #UnrealEngine #procedural #voxel

🤩I reached my #buildinpublic goal for the day! 🌲Making good procedural environments for open world is about: - How far you can see - Fast to load - High diversity ✅Check the boxes = immersive open world --- ⏳Can now generate vegetation in less than 1mn, for 100 square km… 🐍 Sampling is done zone by zone, following a grid pattern around the player, like a snake 💫 The bigger the grid cell is, the less points we attribute to the cell 📊Performance is all about generating just enough data to make a cool world 😵 But not too much to not induce a lag spike --- #gamedev #indiegame #UnrealEngine

🏆A great day for survival games 📚Keywords: Unreal Engine Procedural Content Generation 📈I can generate thousands of square meters of vegetation super fast 🕘Tomorrow it’s optimization, on Twitch 📙I could write an article if you are interested in the technology #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday #buildinginpublic

🔴 Today on stream we make forest for the voxel planet 🎯 I want to release an update before 1st April 📈 8 hours of stream, 13 subs, 2407 followers 🤜🤛 Thank you bros #buildinpublic #gamedev #SoftwareEngineering

😤Yesterday was super hard 🤯Directional gravity isn't fun to make 🕗But after 8 hours of learning, it's working ! #buildinpublic #gamedev

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