raysan5

CUSTOM GAME ENGINES: A Small Study

A couple of weeks ago I played (and finished) A Plague Tale, a game by Asobo Studio. I was really captivated by the game, not only by the beautiful graphics but also by the story and the locations in the game. I decided to investigate a bit about the game tech and I was surprised to see it was developed with a custom engine by a relatively small studio. I know there are some companies using custom engines but it's very difficult to find a detailed market study with that kind of information curated and updated. So this article.

Nowadays lots of companies choose engines like Unreal or Unity for their games (or that's what lot of people think) because d

AlvarBer

// TODO: Do fresnel the ronja way
Shader "HCF/3D/Toon Lit" {
	Properties {
		_MainTex("Albedo (RGB)", 2D) = "white" {}
		_Tint("Tint", Color) = (1, 1, 1, 1)
		[Header(Lighting)]
		[Toggle]
		_UseRampText("Use Ramp Texture", Float) = 0
		[NoScaleOffset]
		_RampTex("Ramp Texture (Greyscale)", 2D) = "white" {}

sketchpunk

vec3 vecQuatRotation(vec4 q, vec3 v){ 
  return v + cross(2.0 * q.xyz, cross(q.xyz, v) + q.w * v);
}

sketchpunk

// How to increment using the slope and offset comes from tasaboia's example but did not have a solution for A
// But found a way to calc for A from a ruby Wire Tool plugin, but it's incrementing did not work as well as tasaboia
// So mixing the two results in a good implementation of the Catenary Curve. All Credit belongs to those two developers.
// All I did is mash the code together and fixed / optimized it - SketchpunkLabs
// https://github.com/tasaboia/Procedural-Rope-Generator/blob/master/Assets/CatenaryTeste/Scripts/Catenary.cs
// http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/rld/plugin_details.php?id=990

function catenary(a, x){ return a * Math.cosh( x / a ); }
catenary.MAX_TRIES = 100;
catenary.getA = function(vecLen, maxLen){

meshula

This document has a more accessible location, here:

http://nickporcino.com/posts/last_mile_interchange.html

I'll maintain a copy here too, this is a nice place to support discussion.

Introduction

mattdesl

texture loading

A utility for loading texture in ThreeJS. Will upload to GPU as soon as the texture is loaded, ensuring that it won't cause jank later in your application.

Example:

const loadTexture = require('./loadTexture');

// Returns a THREE.Texture object

mrdoob

General

• https://aframe.io/aframe-inspector/example/
• https://aws.amazon.com/sumerian/
• https://hologram.cool/
• https://janusvr.com/
• https://nunustudio.org/
• http://ottifox.com/
• https://patches.vizor.io/
• https://playcanvas.com/

zellski

/**
 * An object that rebinds its skinned meshes when cloned.
 */
export class RebindingScene extends THREE.Scene {
  constructor() {
    super();
  }
  copy(source :THREE.Scene, recursive :?boolean) :THREE.Object3D {
    super.copy(source, recursive);
    var nodes = {};

cdata

const cloneGltf = (gltf) => {
  const clone = {
    animations: gltf.animations,
    scene: gltf.scene.clone(true)
  };

  const skinnedMeshes = {};

  gltf.scene.traverse(node => {
    if (node.isSkinnedMesh) {

selfsame

Generating Procedural Game Worlds with Wave Function Collapse

Wave Function Collapse (WFC) by @exutumno is a new algorithm that can generate procedural patterns from a sample image. It's especially exciting for game designers, letting us draw our ideas instead of hand coding them. We'll take a look at the kinds of output WFC can produce and the meaning of the algorithm's parameters. Then we'll walk through setting up WFC in javascript and the Unity game engine.

The traditional approach to this sort of output is to hand code algorithms that generate features, and combine them to alter your game map. For example you could sprinkle some trees at random coordinates, draw roads with a brownian motion, and add rooms with a Binary Space Partition. This is powerful but time consuming, and your original vision can someti