TheDuckCow

Maybe I should always take a plane flight before releasing updates - being stuck in one place working offline, I managed to find and fix several bugs and simultaneously drop scene loading time from possibly seconds down to, like, instant? #godot

But... while the "add_mesh" allows passing in a transform, the actual collision mesh doesn't, so they end up being misaligned. So, interface still has to do some live mesh transform, which adds some editor delay on loading the scene as it prepares the roads to be selectable.

Maybe I should always take a plane flight before releasing updates - being stuck in one place working offline, I managed to find and fix several bugs and simultaneously drop scene loading time from possibly seconds down to, like, instant? #godot

Especially the scene loading one - if I weren't trapped, would have missed it or at least not invested the same way to find the real culprit. Made it way better, though unfortunately, I am still line / arg short of a more *perfect* solution that would actually make scene reloading instant

Never did it before now. It's 9 games that "shaped me", does not mean these are all positive reviews - the last one was a real source of trauma for ME

Also that hot wheels game is seriously underrated, has one of the best 4-player split screen battle game modes of it's time imo, mario kart could never

idk who isn't already using source control for their #gamedev work but here's another compelling case for you: fixing bugs (regressions, in particular) #godot though really applies to any software/coding project

Some progress on a placement tool - cursor offset aside, it's already a nice improvement over the "spawn at the scene origin" way it was before. After the cursor offset, then to get the snapping system to work... aka fighting the undo/redo system ☠️ #godot #roads #addon

Dynamic placement is working pretty well! Video shows off placement, snapping, undo, and bridging all working together. Can't believe I even got the modal operation it continue working while orbiting and panning around without side effects. #godot Will see if I can sneak in shift-multi placement 👀

Some progress on a placement tool - cursor offset aside, it's already a nice improvement over the "spawn at the scene origin" way it was before. After the cursor offset, then to get the snapping system to work... aka fighting the undo/redo system ☠️ #godot #roads #addon

While the #godot road generator's RoadPoint is meant to be directionally agnostic, it does help for troubleshooting to know which was is "forward". Finally got around to implementing this little puzzle-piece motif in the gizmo itself to visually help with that - work in progress

While there's not much to my entry, I'm nonetheless happy I contributed to this Godot milestone (also, I'll admit being a bit proud for ranking in the top ~15% for artwork at least!) theduckcow.itch.io/gmtk26-paper...

Just merged: traffic lanes for procedural intersection, yet another community edition! Really love it when contributors come along and are so open to feedback and going through the iterations to make something just work great like this. #godot #plugin

On a binge to try every #godot vehicle/car physics template/addon, to compare them + my own prior attempts. Anyone have any favorites? Made your own car controller? Just using stock Vehiclebody 3D? (GEVP pictured here, one I've liked more so far, placed into Road Generator demo scenes)

Got changelogs credit last month for a contribution I made to another addon - said change was from... *checks notes* 2017?! haha I guess they just happened to revive it for Blender 5.x for a random project github.com/leomoon-stud...

I mean dang, that *interface* is from 397,000 years ago

Very happy someone is taking on the challenge of procedural intersection lane connections. My brain is now not so happy after spending all this time thinking through the simplest yet robust approach to give 🤪 let's see if this still makes sense to me tomorrow morning github.com/TheDuckCow/g...

Oh neat, I just now realized there are badges on the #Blender project/source control site, I've even collected a few over the years. Throwback to the Blender rocket ship, I've actually still got mine!