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Elias Daler

3 months

It's finally here. Explains how I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it in 3 months. It's huge. Hopefully you'll find it useful. :)

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7 months

Vulkan official art goes hard. In the era of soulless corporate logos and art, it makes me happy that this exists.

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8 months

This addon is so good! I can finally ban outdated/SEO spam driven websites from Google Search.

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Elias Daler

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2 months

I made a meme

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3 months

7.5k words... Releasing in ~1-3 days. Enough content to write a small book! :D

Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

3 months

I'm back! I'm writing a huge article about my experience of learning Vulkan and how I wrote an engine in it from (almost) scratch. If you have any questions or things you want to see in it - ask away and they'll be answered either here or/and in the article!

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

5 months

Finally compiled my game to run for Steam Deck. Works quite nice!

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@EliasDaler

1 year

Worked on camera a lot... can now manage it a lot better now.

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8 months

A New Year's gift from my wife. You can kill with this thing, haha (it's like 3kg!)

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@EliasDaler

2 months

Very important update: Cat can now blink. /ᐠ-ꞈ-ᐟ\

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

1 year

Today I found a game called Rasetsu (2001). A Japanese RTS game with RPG elements. That UI/art/style/aesthetic is just incredible and something that you rarely see in games.

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

1 year

Added sounds and music. Now it looks like a real game, haha. :D #indiedev #gamedev #opengl #libsdl

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2 months

Official photos of Linux for PS2 (and its booth at some conference) I found. Wow.

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

8 months

Also, bye *.fandom.com One of the worst websites on the Internet.

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@EliasDaler

2 months

Finally implemented point light shadows in my Vulkan engine. :D Look how much they add to the picture!

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

1 year

1. You thought that C++ could do something simple, but it doesn't. 2. You find a StackOverflow thread which mentions a proposal which solves the problem. 3. Turns out this proposal was rejected/stalled/"we MIGHT add it in C++30". Every. Single. Time.

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

3 months

I'm back! I'm writing a huge article about my experience of learning Vulkan and how I wrote an engine in it from (almost) scratch. If you have any questions or things you want to see in it - ask away and they'll be answered either here or/and in the article!

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

2 months

My renderer doing classic Sibenik scene by Marko Dabrovic. Bump maps look pretty rad and retro even though they're pretty low res here.

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

4 months

Left - my game in OpenGL Right - my game in Vulkan Even though I don't have bloom implemented yet, I feel like I've improved my lighting/colors a lot over the past few months :) (And MSAA is really doing wonders!)

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

4 years

A small concept I've made for fun. Would you play this? :) Made with wonderful #vinik24 palette by @Vinikdev #pixelart #gamedev

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

5 months

Please recommend me some *polished and non-trivial* open-source games to read for inspiration. Here are some that I already read: * * * *

GitHub - WolfireGames/overgrowth: Open Source codebase of the game Overgrowth by Wolfire Games LLC

Open Source codebase of the game Overgrowth by Wolfire Games LLC - WolfireGames/overgrowth

github.com

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

8 months

I'm also banning Pinterest and Quora. Go away.

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

3 months

The response to this was much stronger and more positive that I've anticipated. Thanks so much, everyone! And anyways, read - it's one of the best graphics programming resources out there.

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Guide to the Vulkan API

vkguide.dev

Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

3 months

It's finally here. Explains how I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it in 3 months. It's huge. Hopefully you'll find it useful. :)

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

2 months

Just completed @miziziziz 's Godot FPS course... It's really great. I feel like I learned 90% of Godot in a week. Can definitely recommend even if you don't plan on writing stuff in Godot later - the code is pretty nice, the approach to polish as well.

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

18 days

Here's a trailer for my game I made for a recent Graphics Programming Discord Direct. I think it's kinda cool. Sorry for the Twitter compression.

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

8 months

Someone from Graphics Programming Discord server is writing a WAD to glTF conversion tool so I decided to test its output in my engine. Turned out to be more epic than I expected 😹 #gamedev #indiedev #doom

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@EliasDaler

1 year

An incredible research by @raysan5 about custom engines being used for making various games: I always wondered how many companies gave up in the last 10 years and went with UE/Unity... and it's nice to see a lot of engine diversity being present still :)

A small state-of-the-art study on custom engines

A small state-of-the-art study on custom engines. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

gist.github.com

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@EliasDaler

5 months

I love Dear ImGui so much. Did this quick texture/material inspector in an hour today.

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@EliasDaler

5 months

Dev tools are my passion. 😻

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@EliasDaler

9 months

@HilltopWorks Hold my beer

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@EliasDaler

6 months

Here's what my Vulkan engine can do after 1 month of development: * Compute skinning + skeletal animation * Basic PBR - normal map, metallic/roughness and emissive * MSAA * Bindless textures * Directional, point and spot lights * CSM * Text drawing with UTF-8 support * Sprites

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

5 months

Finally can go to different levels again... porting is progressing nicely :)

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

7 months

Me learning Vulkan:

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@EliasDaler

9 months

I'm learning WebGPU. Gonna post my progress as I go. I already got the triangle! :D

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

2 months

Live cat reaction:

Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

2 months

Very important update: Cat can now blink. /ᐠ-ꞈ-ᐟ\

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

1 year

LOL Also some interesting history:

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@EliasDaler

7 months

Skinning in compute shader in Vulkan 💪

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

8 months

This is getting popular. Check this out! It’s a search engine which lets you search for *personal* blogs and websites without JS. Has tons of other neat stuff too. Sometimes it reminds me of Google 15 years ago…

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@EliasDaler

2 years

Do you believe that OpenGL will not get fully replaced by Vulkan? (as Khronos said) It's concerning to me, because OpenGL was already hard to write, but Vulkan is almost impossible for a hobbyist graphics programmer. Will I *have* to rely on 3rd part libs for graphics?

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

2 years

Here's a game I've been working on for a last couple of months! Made with Go and Ebiten, tileset by @KenneyNL (with a lot of stuff additionally drawn by me :D) #gamedev #indiedev #ebiten #golang

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

5 months

There's a lot of content for game dev beginners... How to make your "snake"/"tetris" etc. clone and so on. But not enough about "the last 10%", not enough about the polish, about content pipelines, about managing complexity of big projects...

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@EliasDaler

5 months

You can now save in the game (And I just spent like an hour making that save icon...)

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

1 year

I'm still doing OpenGL 3D stuff. It's going well. * Implemented Point, directional, spot lights * Shadow maps * Fonts with FreeType (previously only used bitmap fonts, can now do texture atlases on the fly)

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

7 years

Here's a new screenshot and some info about the game I've been working on for the past 8 months (if you haven't seen it). It's based on Re:creation's engine (C++, Lua, SFML). It's in 160x144 and uses 4 colors for palette. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #SFML @sfmldev

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@EliasDaler

1 year

I wrote a CHIP-8 emulator! Just SDL, OpenGL and Dear ImGui :) Now I need to learn some advanced Dear ImGui magic which some emulator developers do for their debugging tools.

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@EliasDaler

7 months

Vulkan learning update: compute shader works, Dear ImGui works 👍 Following this: It's pretty good.

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@EliasDaler

2 years

Trying to make my first PICO-8 game. Made some fancy graphics. #pico8 #pixelart #gamedev

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@EliasDaler

5 months

Pretty debug visualization

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@EliasDaler

5 months

NINTENDO, HIRE THIS MAN! (He's using his custom engine in any way he can)

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@EliasDaler

5 months

And back to the drawing board we go. 🥹

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@EliasDaler

5 months

The UI is resolution independent And see how "more text" stays at the bottom-right corner of nine-slice? The position is not hardcoded, it's all anchors and offsets :)

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@EliasDaler

5 months

I can make really spooky videos now. There's a surprise at the end.

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@EliasDaler

5 months

Got character controller from Jolt working - it's so incredible! Thank you, @jrouwe for saving me so many hours - the character controller behavior is so good. (P.S. also worked on camera logic a lot, will have to tune it a lot in the future, but it's starting to look nice)

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@EliasDaler

7 months

One week of learning Vulkan. Simple shading. Going to work on skinning and shadows next. It’s going much better than I imagined.

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@EliasDaler

7 months

Multiple textures, multiple models. Copied 90% of my WebGPU renderer, changed a few things and it worked!

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@EliasDaler

7 months

For those who don’t know the character origins - the first three models come from Stanford and the last one is the legendary Utah Teapot. All of them are used a lot in CG for showcasing various techniques and testing.

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@EliasDaler

5 months

Running around

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@EliasDaler

5 months

Redid my nine-slice system - now can draw pretty dialogue boxes like this one... :)

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@EliasDaler

6 months

Vulkan Renderer update: * Added skyboxes * Added fog * Tons of work on separating passes into smaller classes and making the base renderer class smaller (1800 lines -> 724 lines!) 6251 lines of code so far. Not bad for how much it can already do :)

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@EliasDaler

6 months

Drawing 10k sprites. They use 3 different textures. The drawing takes only third of a millisecond. Bindless (aka descriptor indexing in Vulkan) textures allow me to do it in all in 1 draw call. Basically, no more texture atlases! Just pass texture id in the command. Perfect.

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@EliasDaler

5 months

Integrated Jolt into my engine. It's pretty neat. A lot of work to do still, but it works!

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@EliasDaler

5 months

UI work starts... time to do this right... :D

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@EliasDaler

5 months

UI work and showing off some UI debugging tools. I love my new system so much - the layout is fully automatic and it's now pretty easy to make menus like these!

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

2 months

Original:

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@EliasDaler

1 month

Low-res shadows on my balcony. How do I fix them? :(

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@EliasDaler

6 months

Everything is an entity now. Components are displayed in a pretty way and ImGuiTextFilter allows me to search entities by name. (Also I'm using enTT this time instead of my own ECS and it's pretty good!)

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@EliasDaler

6 months

We're so back... (Started working on gameplay code again, no smooth rotation and collisions yet - working on it)

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@EliasDaler

6 months

A bit boring updates, but important for my debugging experience. 1. Can now draw game inside its own Dear ImGui window 2. Integrated im3d finally - it's fantastic, check it out!

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Elias Daler

@EliasDaler

2 years

I modeled a protagonist's house from Moon: Remix RPG Adventure. Thank you for making such a wonderful game, @oniongames ( @OnionGames_Papa ) <3 Sketchfab link: #Onion アート #moon_rpg #blender

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@EliasDaler

3 months

9.2k words, help... 🫠 But it's basically done. Doing some final reviews/rewrites tomorrow and publishing! It's gonna be epic.

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@EliasDaler

8 years

I'm working on a game called Re:creation and here's some of the best stuff! More info here:

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@EliasDaler

5 months

I fixed it. It's perfect now.

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@EliasDaler

5 months

And back to the drawing board we go. 🥹

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3 months

Look, ma, I'm on TV!

jendrik illner

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3 months

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 343 - June 9th, 2024

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11 months

Progress I think I'm starting to understand how to model cities (and I'm ready to spend months doing a small city block...)

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@EliasDaler

8 years

I can now easily create very big maps in any direction, thanks to sparse tile map system! :D #gamedev #indiedev #SFML

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@EliasDaler

1 year

@jaytholen Not the first time the lore was referenced. Even before the original was created.

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@EliasDaler

6 months

Now my Vulkan renderer has cascaded shadow maps too

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@EliasDaler

5 months

Dialogues are back. 😸👍

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@EliasDaler

5 months

Look ma, I'm in Dear ImGui release notes!

Omar 🍋

@ocornut

5 months

dear imgui 1.90.5 released:

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@EliasDaler

8 months

Made a minimal example for drawing a triangle in #webgpu with Dawn and glfw. Single file, just 391 lines! (311 if you don't count comments and blank lines).

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@EliasDaler

6 years

I'm shocked at how great this book is. It's the ultimate CMake guide and reference. I've wanted this for years, and here it is. Please, buy it. You won't regret it. It's the "Modern Effective C++" of CMake world.

Craig Scott

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Announcing the release of my new book, intended to provide a practical, structured guide to learning and using #CMake . Should be useful for both beginners and hopefully seasoned veterans too. Over to you now twitter-verse!

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@EliasDaler

7 years

I wrote an article about my meta library! How I made it and how it can be used. #cpp #cplusplus #programming

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@EliasDaler

5 months

More camera work - smooth transition between walk/run offsets + delay between transitions for additional smoothing.

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@EliasDaler

8 years

Wrote a tutorial about how you can use Dear ImGui by @ocornut with #SFML ! #gamedev #cpp

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@EliasDaler

6 years

I've finally written it. Here's how you can implement action sequences and cutscenes. #gamedev #lua #programming #cpp #indiedev #tutorial

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@EliasDaler

8 months

@iorate - thank you for making uBlacklist! This really seems like a very important addon seems to have much attention these tweets are getting.

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@EliasDaler

4 months

Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ test (This is just 240p, but CRT effect really makes it work)

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@EliasDaler

1 year

3D engine progress. Made with OpenGL and SDL. Now I need to learn how to rig and make animations :D #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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@EliasDaler

6 months

After hours of struggling with Dear ImGui and sRGB issues (even after writing my own backend!), I found the solution here: @diligentengine , thanks a lot for your findings!

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@EliasDaler

2 years

GCC 13 release notes. Wait, what, C has auto and constexpr now???

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@EliasDaler

5 months

I had to learn video editing just to make this.

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@EliasDaler

5 months

NINTENDO, HIRE THIS MAN! (He's using his custom engine in any way he can)

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@EliasDaler

4 years

I wrote an article about porting my game from SFML to SDL #gamedev #opengl #libsdl #SFML

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@EliasDaler

2 years

@reduzio Publishers caring about Steam Deck support so much? That’s music to my ears! 😄

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@EliasDaler

5 years

I'm working on "Tomb Painter". Made with C++, Lua and SFML. 160x144, 4 colors per palette (2 palettes at the screen max at the same time). Its engine will eventually be made open source. Read more about it here: #TombPainter #gamedev #indiedev #SFML

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@EliasDaler

7 months

#webgpu learning continues. Implemented mipmaps and skyboxes. Getting closer and closer to my GL renderer :)

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@EliasDaler

8 months

Skeletal animation broke in a horrifying way today. 😂

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@EliasDaler

8 years

Posted my ImGui / SFML article with much prettier formatting! Check it out! #gamedev #cpp

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@EliasDaler

5 months

Tested this scene in my engine. Looks very nice! :D

Elbolilloduro

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5 months

New assets🤨 This time a scene #lowpoly #retro #assets #PSX #Unity #blender #gamedesign

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@EliasDaler

1 year

I have a problem with C++... It's too slow for prototyping and writing new code. In Go, you could pretty much write any struct/function in any file, iterate and then move it out to a proper place. C++ makes it harder with visibility rules, headers etc.

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Really simple thing, but blows my mind (for some reason) that it’s possible to implement it. I can now pause the game, fly around the scene, and do frame-by-frame advance. Will be very useful for debugging :)

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@EliasDaler

2 years

I can now do UTF-8 text rendering. SDL_ttf's TTF_RenderUTF8_* functions make it easy. I just pass strings from Lua as-is (as const char*), then to TTF_RenderUTF8_* and it just works(tm).

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