Chunklands 🎮

Infinite 3D voxel based sandbox video-game.

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

🥁 Interested in reading about the vision 🌄 and story 🧙 of #chunklands?
Check out https://t.co/fUytciEuRH! 🔥

Also visit us on GitHub https://t.co/BHeFIAr6ab for discussions, if you like to ♥️.

#gamedev #storybook

[Philipp Renoth 🇩🇪🍻🦀 @daaitch]

📈 Improved frame time by making the offscreen renderpass input vertex buffer device-local + copying from host visible memory. Dropped from 68ms to ⬇️ 22ms 🥳. Future optimizations e.g. to only draw chunks in the FOV should give back 60fps for the scene.

#chunklands #vulkan

[Philipp Renoth 🇩🇪🍻🦀 @daaitch]

What happened in @chunklands? At 4k, 16M vertices, 1x indirect draw call (7981 draws): fps dropped to 14 📉. Now there is a need for measuring performance.

- 👫 decoupled rendering (#bevy SubApp)
- 📊 enabled tracing (trace_chrome feature)
- ⏱️ #vulkan query timestamp profiling

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

What if #chunklands plays on multiple planets 🪐. No, it's just a small shader experiment 🧪.

[Philipp Renoth 🇩🇪🍻🦀 @daaitch]

🥁 Meantime #chunklands updates:

- improve debug build to run game at 60fps 🏃‍♀️ (2s compile time)
- add #bevy dynamic linking 🔗 (reduce compile time)
- voxel based ambient occlusion 🌇 (AO), removed expensive SSAO
- greedy mesh optimization 🎯
- embed LUA/U scripting support 👨‍💻

[Philipp Renoth 🇩🇪🍻🦀 @daaitch]

📐Implemented greedy meshing algorithm 🧪. Current scene 🏔️: saved 80% of the vertices.

#chunklands

[Philipp Renoth 🇩🇪🍻🦀 @daaitch]

👨‍🏫 Evaluated and implemented #bevy so far for @chunklands. Currently only using the ECS part of it as window, input and rendering is not yet compatible with the current impl, but it already brings huge benefits.

This system removes chunk meshes from being rendered.

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

We're on track again 😍.

[Philipp Renoth 🇩🇪🍻🦀 @daaitch]

After months of cloud/web dev in my free time in 🦀 #rustlang my mood 💪 for game development again returned. I'll continue porting @chunklands to the #bevy game engine🐦.

I can highly recommend the beginner tutorials by @jacquesj_dev. Helped a lot, thx!

https://t.co/GVMguI8UWR

[Philipp Renoth 🇩🇪🍻🦀 @daaitch]

🧪 Let's check out #bevy 🕊️🕊️🕊️ for #chunklands 🌄, a #rustlang 🦀 #gameengine 🎮.

Bringing in an entity-component system (ECS) as part of a game-engine should be a good idea to move forward.

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In case someone at Twitter gets mad. ✌️
https://t.co/Jt5OA3qCkP

#mastadonmigration #mastadon #gamedev

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

🌞 The weather in #chunklands is great for a mountain hike this weekend 🧗 at ~1200 block-meters in height.
#gamedev #RainyDay

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

Added outline shader. #gamedev

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

✌️ Added emissive textures 💎 with bloom effect ✨.

#gamedev

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

Added bloom effects: the sun in shining 🌞 and beach is glowing 🏖️.

Can't wait to add some beautiful sparkling gems 💎✨. #gamedev

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✌️ Clouds ☁️. #gamedev

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

Added SSAO shading 🧊. #gamedev

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

@AlexanderBruyns Position based dynamically drawing all chunks within one draw call.

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

🥁 Currently working on changing the render pipeline 🧑‍🔧 to deferred shading 🕞 for screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO). When it's finished, the picture will tell more than 1000 words. Here, hopefully last picture without SSAO.

#gamedev

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

Last video's map is generated from a seamless 📈 height-map. Perlin noise is mapped to a curve with control points for each area, like 🌊 sea, 🏖️ beach, 🌱grass, 🌄 hills and 🏔️ mountains.

It's very simple and effective, but it's far away from generating a real map.

#gamedev

[Chunklands 🎮 @chunklands]

👉 Working on the 🏔️ Exploration Milestone.

Improved collision 🏗️ and player controller🏃.
Currently working again on 🗺️ map generation.

#gamedev

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https://t.co/vHGLfZNpJd