Industrial worlds are coming online! Added Forge World and Terra Planet UI, with Forge Worlds using pooled workers to rapidly build ships and units. Made in a fully custom engine and UI system. #gamedev #games #indiedev #rts

Implemented a good chunk of the star map: planets, moons, blackholes, wormholes and nebulas and such. #screenshotsaturday

HQ: youtu.be/Y0FWX6sJbrM

Went all-in on destruction for total chaos. I added GPU ragdolls, terrain morphing, ray-traced shadows and large 3d explosions. It's absolute mayhem. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #RTS #VFX

HQ: youtu.be/BvjI_2pE3UA

Real-time ice in my custom game engine. Two-pass refraction with thickness-based absorption: renders backfaces for depth, bends rays through the mesh, tints via Beer's law, adds fresnel. Beats SSS for RTS since you actually see units distorting inside the ice. #rendering #gamedev

The terrain is rendered to two RTVs: the scene texture and an extra terrain-only RTV which is then sampled by objects. Downside is terrain has to be rendered before objects so terrain pixels that would otherwise be occluded are always rendered. HQ: youtu.be/qqPxKkmreKI

Scratch my previous post, here's terrain blending in screenspace. Pixel perfect at a fraction of the required resolution. #rendering #gamedev

Terrain blending at home - virtual textures without the "virtual". #rendering #gamedev

Curve-based terrain editing in GlassEngine. Curves generate distance fields that are blended together for the final heightmap. Non-destructive and combined with traditional terrain sculpting (raise/lower/smooth) for added artistic control. Everything is on layers. #gamedev

HQ: youtu.be/2tJjcF6pJc8