SketchPunk Labs

Creations of a crazed lunatic

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Your series on webgl2 is amazing, I was wondering, do You think eventually You may end up doing a procedural destructible mesh eventually?

maybe one day. true destructible mesh is well above what i am capable of. ill research it some, see what things are needed to learn how to do that.

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Prototyping terrain generation for a future WebGL tutorial. This took a few days but its turning out pretty well. Only thing left I want to try to code in is the ability to use bump maps to help make the terrain really pop.

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Have lesson two up plus an intro. I’ve setup a playlist to make it easier for everyone.

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After many weeks of learning and 3 rewrites I learned enough of WebGL to create a 3D modal viewer, this even includes parsing OBJ files along with mouse and touch controls to rotate and pan he modal. Only issue is that I ended up using WebGL 2.0, which requires a few steps to enabled on chrome.

Found a great modal on BlendSwap.com, so after a few attempt I managed to export an OBJ file from blender3d that I can parse, expand the data and push it to the graphics card. I’m totally psyched! This is something I always thought I was never smart enough to be able to do, but with enough hardwork and not giving up, i managed to complete the first step.

Its like martial arts, You don’t really start to learn till your a black belt, everything up to that point was just to master the basics, once you have that over with you can truly begin your training. One modal done, now a whole virtual work left to be built :)

https://github.com/sketchpunk/SageJS/tree/master/experiments/webgl

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So trying to put some time into learning some VR stuff in unity3d. Trying to figure out how to teleport but I want  to have one of those curves that points in the direction your going. So one of things I had to learn is how bezier curves work then using them to build splines. After going through a great tutorial on how to built that sort of thing in Unity, for fun I went and tried to rebuild in Javascript and Canvas. So here’s the demo and code. Side note, I’ve done lots of vector graphics in the past and I’ve always been mesmerized by bezier curves, so I can say I’m happy as hell to finally understand how it works under the hood. Its days like today that makes me wish I can quit my day job and spend my time learning all these amazing things.

Demo : http://sketchpunk.com/sagejs/experiments/bezier/

Source : https://github.com/sketchpunk/SageJS/tree/master/experiments/bezier

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Just an update to how far I’ve gotten with xortex.

https://github.com/sketchpunk/openxortex

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The Halloween google doodle got me very interested in stroke recognition. Took it apart the $1 implementation and rebuilt it from scratch as a way to learn and understand the mechanics of it. Here’s my web version of it, added corner detection from a different implementation I found that I thought was really neat.

Demo : http://sketchpunk.com/sagejs/experiments/shapereg/onedollar.html

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Doing quite a bit of learning around VR/AR and I decided the best way to really understand it is to make a viewer from the ground up. So here is a simple prototype using WebGL and Javascript. This stuff can get pretty complicated but saw a video recently what a “Dot Product” is and how its applied to lighting in shaders, first time ever Dot Product made somewhat of sense to me. So lots of math i need to learn going this route, but its fun and I’ll someday open up new worlds of possibilities for me. Source and demo.

http://www.sketchpunk.com/sagejs/experiments/webgl/rotating_cube.html

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Been Playing Tuber simulator and for some reason I think the puggle mini game is great (except for the high price to play it). I was really curious about how it bounces around codewise, so I created a web based prototype of the mini game for fun. The whole thing is open source so anyone can use it. It was a fun little gaming project to do. Wife even suggested I add a moogle to go along with the puggle :)

Demo : http://www.sketchpunk.com/sagejs/experiments/puggle/ Src : https://github.com/sketchpunk/SageJS/tree/master/experiments/puggle

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Went to home depot and got a bunch of parts to make a replica of a hand spinner/fidget toy I saw on eBay. It's a lil off balance but it works. I can probably 3D print some designs but I need to get some really good bearings.

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For awhile I’ve wanted to build some lighting into the deadpool head I have to hold my headphones but then last night I thought why not put in these usb powered led string I got awhile ago as a quick hack. Looks pretty good. Down the line I would love to setup a tiny arduino board that would do light fading to sound and music, that would make for a fun rave when I work at night.

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Another UI Project i put together. It allows you to modify 3 different wave forms and merge them together. Its a fun thing to make which gives me a chance to play with perlin noise and canvas animations. Here’s the demo and Github source. http://sketchpunk.com/NoiseUI/noiseui.html

https://github.com/sketchpunk/NoiseUI

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So over the weekend I had a need to make this UI. Always wanted to try making something like this but seeing one bit of code gave me the inspiration to give it a good ol’try to see how it’ll turn out. I’m pretty pleased with the initial results. Need to go back to working on my game, but this was a fun exercise in UI development.

The source is free for anyone who needs such a thing or just want to look at code as an example of one way to handle such a thing. Would be cool to see what people would do with it. https://github.com/sketchpunk/NEditorJS

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Been awhile since I made anything, been so busy learning unity. Today I'm happy to finally show the basic working mechanics for Open Xortex working with HTC Vive. Its a great feeling to create a game, but its so much better when you can step inside the game. The project is open source, so anyone can clone or help me out. Been a programmer for 20 years, but i'm still a noob when it comes to game development, so any suggestions or tips on improving the code is totally welcomed.

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First commit of my a VR game i’m developing while learning Unity3d. So far I have some movement and attacking, plus enemy ship is able to follow the player anywhere they go. The lab’s Xortex blew my mind, so as a learning exercise I want to try to remake it in unity3d. I want to go all the way with it, custom models, etc. If I can bring it up to a very polished game then I might have a chance of turning this new hobby into a career.

Next step is to setup HTC Vive and have the hand controller do the actual controlling of the player ship instead of wasd keys moving it around.

And like my many endeavors, this is all open source. So anyone can follow me as I put this game together. Hell, if you have suggestions, tips, or whatever, please drop me a line. https://github.com/sketchpunk/OpenXortex

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2aIzIpip1o

So finally learned enough to make procedurally generated meshes in Unity3d.  Here’s a video demo of it working. Took it further and turned it into a Hexagon circle grid out of the mesh. All the math i’ve been learning from CodingMath is being put into go use. So there is a chance I might end up being a decent game developer. Like always, my source is open and free. So have at it.

https://github.com/sketchpunk/Unity3dExperiments/tree/master/CodeMesh

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First step into making a custom keyboard. Wired up a single switch and wrote some code to get its states and create events for it. This will be a long road, but will learn tons in the process. Going to document the project on my github plus save all the code for each step for anyone who’s interested in the staged of its development.

https://github.com/sketchpunk/mkRebuild