Notices by Angle (angle@anticapitalist.party), page 5

Alright, ripped out my old code for generating colors and textures. Lot of code, but it was all kinda meh anyway, and I need to make space for something new. Now to decide exactly what I want to do for generating textures. My old implementation for picking colors for the various bits of a texture was ennecessarily complicated, but I still want to do something similar... :/

Well, I think I got the shadow maps drawing correctly. Now I just need to use them in my lighting shader properly. I think I'm almost there? XD

Alright, passing colors to the graphics card. Now I just need to make sure I have colors I actually want. XD

So close, and yet so far away... :/

Alright, I have the colors I want! Now I need to actually pass the positions of the actual blocks, and to draw them all. Still not entirely sure how to do this - do I make each block type it's own data structure, or do I pack them all into one? The second will be more difficult, but will likely come with some real savings... I dunno, I'll have to see. :/

Finally got my shadowmaps working! XD

alright, drawing blocks in position!

Back to working on light volumes now. Trying to get some Icosahedrons in the right places, at the right sizes - but, they don;t want to scale, for whatever reason. They'll translate, they'll even rotate, but I try and pass a scaling matrix for the model matrix, they just ignore it. :/

And in numbers that would have lagged the game, before. Everything goes according to Keikaku!

Okay, was doing my scaling matrices wrong, good to know. Anyway, I got light volumes working! XD

Alright, now we're drawing with the right substances! And via rendering all the different pallettes to a texture and sampling that texture, no less. Not Bad! XD

Now I'm working on point shadows, and I'm most of the way through implementing it. It works surprisingly well, considering it's not finished. XD

Of course, this raises the question of what I do now - do I start working on worldgen? Or do I want to work on mesh optimization?Or something else? :/

No wait, those are the directional shadows. Well, nvm then. XD

Alright, made the textures fully random, instead of repeating! XD

Still working on point shadows, but I got multiple directional lights, with shadows, working properly.

Still working on polishing up my shaders. Gotta add the dynamic shader equivalent of mipmapping, I think - the textures dissolve into static at long distances, at the moment. :/

I don't have the point shadows doing what I want them to do yet, but I'm making progress. In other news though, this is apparently the 100th Omnicraft screenshot I've saved to share on mastodon. XD

Gonna just try making things blur at long distances, see where that gets me. Haven't finished implementing it yet though. And, it turns out my randomization function has a few weird artifacts:

Okay, got my point shadows working well! Not even giving me shadow acne. XD