#tetra3d

[solarlunedev]

Been working on light volumes for Tetra3D, my PS1-style renderer! It's looking pretty good - feels like how a PS1 game would do dynamic lighting. The approach is pretty simple - the light volume is essentially an AABB, split into a grid. The grid cells contain colors, and I can put colors in the grid to light or shade vertices that move into those cells.

A longer video is up on YouTube here:

[solarlunedev]

Progress on this weird PS1 character adventure game

Yo, I've been working on this character adventure game made with my 3D renderer, Tetra3D, over the past few weeks! I've shown it here a bit before.

Here's what it looks like right now - normally, it's a 2.5D overhead adventure game (kinda like RPG Maker adventure games like Yume Nikki), but when you interact with a dumpster you go into THE TRASH ZONE. It transitions into a first-person, pseudo-lane-based platforming schmovement / Boost Sonic movement thing. There's not much air down there, so you have to keep moving between these disinfecting crystals. I think it'd be cool to have this area be kind of like a ruined city, so I'll see if I can make that happen!

It's a lot of fun, I think! Still working on it; I need to do something about the graphical glitches once you enter the dumpster.

Also, the game is very moddable, so people can make their own entire games in this - almost the entire game is being built in the modding system. It's cool!

[solarlunedev]

So, I'm making a PS1-style first-person adventure game. You walk around and talk to people. If they ask a yes or no question, you have to manually shake your head to answer.

Right-clicking brings your hand up and allows you to interact with objects in the game world.

My idea for it is that it takes place in the far future, in a somewhat dystopian, neglectfully-managed world that still has some humanity left. Like, you might have high technology like full-body VR or semi-sentient robots and stuff, but people still hope for a better tomorrow and make efforts to live happy lives. They would still have fun, go to the movies, talk about current events, go to school, and interact with their community.

In the game, you play a guy going to pick his daughter up from school, and that's it. That's the point of the game - it's not about standing up to the capitalist machine, or becoming an assassin for hire, or something like that, but rather just about living your life, pretty much like everybody else. Through this trip, you get to examine the lives of people who live in this city, and who they are.

[solarlunedev]

Going to stream some gamedev / work on Tetra3D:

Watch this video on Twitch Live

have a rushed trailcam deer

[solarlunedev]

Haven't posted anything here in a while, but I've been making a lot of progress on my 3D renderer, Tetra3D!

Been optimizing and fixing up collisions and ray casting, adding light volumes, adding automatic triangle subdivision based on camera distance, etc. Somebody said it's like a PS1.5, haha.

Built on-top of the Ebitengine framework!

BlueSky here~

[solarlunedev]

Hello~ I'm working on a game with Ebitengine, a 2D game framework and working on a 3D renderer written largely from scratch, Tetra3D. I just recently added the ability to alter the depth of triangles as they render, which allows me to fix billboarded sprites so they don't cut into the world around them. Neat!

[solarlunedev]

So I'm making a terminal app that allows me to interact with games I'm making using my own 3D renderer, haha!

It's called TetraTerm, named after the renderer, Tetra3D, and is open-source and available here. Feel free to check it out!