Notices by Nikita Lisitsa (lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@sinbad Oh, that's my N-d array class with overloaded operator() (because multi-argument operator[] is only in C++23), and yep, it returns a reference!

I'm in the middle of huge refactoring, so I decided to take a break and do some water sim again. This time using the virtual pipes model, it turned out to be amazingly simple.

Don't have time for a fancy 3D viz, but still this might be the best shallow water sim I've made :)

@artificialmind I'm using this paper: https://diglib.eg.org/bitstream/handle/10.2312/vriphys20181067/045-054.pdf (section 3.1 is the main stuff), without viscosity & without any multi-layer stuff, together with outflow scaling that they mention from this paper https://inria.hal.science/inria-00402079/document

@artificialmind Here's the whole update code. bed is NxN array of terrain elevation, water is NxN water column height (so bed + water is the height of water surface), flowx is (N+1)xN of horizontal pipes, and similarly flowy is Nx(N+1) for vertical pipes.

@sinbad I believe I'm past the Stockholm Syndrome era, and now I'm in the "I want to create stuff, not complain about stuff" era :)

@sinbad Imo it's a matter of perspective. I still love computers after working with them for...about 17 years probably?

Just accept that "everything is always broken" is how things are meant to be and suddenly it's not that bad

Also tweaked the spruce leaves texture a bit. It's probably not the final look, but feels like a step in the right direction - I never liked how flat it looked.

Here's a before/after:

#screenshotsaturday

Computer graphics community must be so weird to outsiders. Everybody is just posting literally the same image of the same scene, and everyone else is congratulating them

@sinbad Awwww :3
We have two 6-month-old chaotic stray voids who love doing the same

@sinbad I did an overwhelming 14 last year, and 9 this year of which 6 are part of a series (which I guess counts as separate articles?), though I'm planning to still have one or two more by the end of the year

I've noticed that I have much less energy and fewer ideas on what to write this year, though

@sinbad Wdym, how did you draw such awesome wizards then

Modeled a few more degenerate-ish variants, all seem to fit the current idea (of having 7 small tiles and generating large hex tiles from them with smoothed normals).

#indiedev

@sinbad @Doomed_Daniel That perlin noise on the background tho

@julesh What do you mean by "closure" here? Like being closed under some operations, or closure operators like monads, or something else?

@SmallisBeautiful @sinbad I see, thanks! Yep, that's a big deal.

@sinbad What does "destructive" mean in this context?

@julesh Oh wow, thanks!

@julesh What do you mean?

@sinbad I have a bunch of ideas of multiplayer games (both co-op and competitive) that I'd love to make some day, but the complexity inherent to multiplayer makes me horrified

I've found a fun way of generating simple tree bark textures in GIMP! First, fill the image with [Filters > Render > Noise > Cell noise], then scale it along the Y axis (I used 2x scaling).

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