Radzik

I really liked heat haze effect, but it was clipping transparent objects behind it. So I embarked on a week-long journey with post-processing with CompositorEffects. Now I really appreciate simplicity of using regular Godot shaders! #godot #gamedev #indiedev

How you going? A* 😒 Flow field 😎 Ofc I had to complicate it with special weights calc on corners. And bilinear interpolation to sample direction for smooth rotations. PS. Good thing DebugDraw3D exists or I would be implementing whole helper drawing lib myself ;) #godot #gamedev #indiedev

VoxelGI on/off Makes a huge difference, especially since there is no directional light, only sky. Performance isn't bad. Regular lights have bigger impact, so lighting and meshes are something to optimize first. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Many goodies will land in Godot 4.8, my 2 favs from dev 3 build are not in the highlights: 1️⃣ Automatically created default resources for collision shapes, noise, particles, etc. (PR #88647) 2️⃣ Show/hide collision shapes in runtime, no game restart needed! (PR #119816)

Today's progress: added tower shield effect and unit dissolve. 💡Light flash when shield appears really sells it. No matter what I did in shield shader, without light it just felt fake and not integrated with environment. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Pretty happy how the crystals turned out! But I think they still need some juice though. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

For wizards, size IS important. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Added spark particles! Just like heat haze, it's subtle. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

I'm pretty happy how the path turned out! The path mesh is created along Path3D. Mesh consists of square tiles, and shader choses random fragment from the material for each of them, with 1 of 16 stones, randomly rotating it for even greater variety. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Not gonna lie, those shader graphs always scared me. Can't you just write code? 😅 But I needed something custom, so I took existing material and went step by step, understanding, simplifying, and adjusting it. And okay, I see the benefits of node graphs! #godot #gamedev #indiedev #MaterialMaker

Brazier with heat haze effect above it. Effect is subtle, I don't want it to be distracting, but maybe it should be stronger? WDYT? #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Procedural island mesh generation. Path3D sets the base shape, which is then made more interesting and unique with random irregularities. Bottom disappears in darknes, and edge bevel is cherry on top for low-poly look. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Deckbuilders Fest is almost over. We launched Cold Decks demo shortly before. We had some uptick in wishlists, despite it being only a free demo. From this occasion, sharing some card graphics by talented Ana Rinray (def checkout www.tumblr.com/ana-rinray-art !) #godot #indiedev #gamedev

I didn't want all colors to fight for attention, but afterwards realized my game has muted, eastern-european color palette ;) LUT was quick way to color grade whole game. Do you see difference? I consider making 1 minute "how to" tutorial - is it interesing topic? #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Oxygen management is crucial in Cold Decks, but it was easy to not realize your Pioneers are suffocating. I hope it can't be missed now! Still missing a good audio to go with it... #godot #indiedev #gamedev

I was supposed to check a bug, and then realized I'm just playing the game. I guess this makes the game good for at least one player? #godot #indiedev #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

1. Create "Report bug / Feedback" form 2. Release demo 3. After a week, realize you didn't configure notifications on form submissions 4. ??? 5. Profit? Big thank you to players that submitted bug reports, they are being fixed right now :D #godot #gamedev #indiedev

My presentation from GodotCon (and demo with full code) is available here: github.com/m-radzikowsk... Thank you for all questions and discussions afterwards!

Truly a week of Godot for me! - on route to GodotCon - where I'm speaking on Friday - and I've just released demo on Steam! In Cold Decks, cards are everything, and both your crafting skills and morality will be tested. Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/4287840/ #indiegame #godot

Text shaders line-by-line preview in Godot 4.7? Yes, please! This is the print() - the ultimate debug tool - for shaders :D

Great, now I will need to unlearn muscle memory I developed to work around limitations of moving nodes in the tree 🙃 But in all seriousness, UX of Godot is already on a good level and becomes even better with every release.

GodotCon Amsterdam speakers list is live! A lot of intriguing talks, can't wait! (and I'm on the list too ;) #godot #godotengine #godotcon