Finding Fortune

Fortune Finds us all in the ways we notice least. Focusing on a voxel game engine in OpenGL, C++.
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[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

People asked me to add localized weather - for that I need 3D clouds. This is my first attempt #gamedev

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

My voxel game so far, adding the simulation and growth of towns, dungeons, and ecology now #gamedev

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

I boost FPS ~10% or so in my voxel game with 1 triangle quads. People asked me wtf that even means so I made this #gamedev #optimization

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

Very scary to any voxel dev. Realistically what do you do besides hope complaints against it goes viral? Like uno said, small indie devs don't have money to fight lawsuits against microsoft https://t.co/dI4yma7AtH

[Tyron @tyronmm]

Microsoft has filed a DMCA takedown on a tiny voxel game Allumeria on Steam. This is ridiculous. All their art and code is original, its not even in the same programming language. At the very least this demands an official statement from Mojang what the point of this is.

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

@_reyku Looking forward to it, your project is incredible!

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

Added foliage back in and did some biome blending experiments ~
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[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

Cleaned up my shadows, fixed some tree generation issues...... Feels good
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[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

First iteration of entities! Just gravity and collisions, no textures or pathfinding yet
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[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

New video! Ever heard of vertex pulling? https://t.co/vPJiVHZUAF

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

@serhyodev Im going to add RPG features later, so you could do normal survival, team up with NPCs and join a town or kingdom, raid dungeons and such for loot.... I kind of want multiple avenues of progression on top of normal "MC-like" survival

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

The basic survival mode is done! The hotbar and inventory is functional in creative and survival mode. I've also made a start menu so we can start working on world saves. Caves are also in progress - it's tough making them generate fast in such a large world!

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[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

@Ramonidous Thanks Ramon! I've been happy to see all the experiments in your engine over the past year too, cheers haha

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

@fma_f32 That's not to say that RTX is pure magic like they might have sold people on, but it seems to me like it can give real performance as long as the right people use it in the right way

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

@RundlettGabe @andrewpprice If you weren't here I was about to ping you haha

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

@TTSnim Hah, you're right I should add some Christmas stuff soon

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

BIG overhaul to the render distance and structures! This world is rendering 65,000 blocks in diameter, or equal to about ~4000 Minecraft chunks
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[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

@_trish_07 For learning graphics programming in low level APIs like OpenGL and Vulkan, it's the thing to use. All the good tutorials like https://t.co/PMJK0ohvxR were written in it

[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

The color of the fog is now influenced by the sun's color
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[Finding Fortune @FindingFortune1]

Raymarching some clouds! Real time rendered ~
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