VRAM pool allocator extremely simple

ready to ship

Would not recommend using AI auto-complete when writing complicated low level code Saves 2 minutes of typing in exchange for 6 hours of debugging

The more I work on my game engine The more impressed I am that AAA games run at 60fps on mid-range hardware

Added a better pickaxe UI Also improved the mining so that every time you swing the pickaxe it tries to mine atleast N voxels even if slightly outside the radius Makes mining much more consistent and satisfying

Adding some armor to make the NPCs look more interesting

Preventing a 3rd person camera from intersecting meshes: 1. Raycast to detect when the camera view intersects a mesh 2. Smooth camera movement in only one direction so it doesn't glitch out (while also strictly preventing intersections)

Added tree reproduction/growth Allows forests to regrow and spread naturally Makes the world feel more alive

Added gems that are dropped while mining Uses refraction, beers law absorption and stimulated emission to achieve the look To make the gem the color C, use an absorption coef. of (-C + 1/C) where (-C) is stimulated emission and (1/C) is absorption

The temptation to overuse bloom and emission is too strong to bear

Main menu "buttons"

Game engine development will make you realize that 1 millisecond is actually a long time

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Blue noise: an array of random numbers with which has zero low spatial frequency components this makes it both less noticeable to your eyes, and computationally efficient to spatially smooth out can be made by highpass-filtering an array of random numbers

Smart TVs are interesting. They have a hyper optimized video codec written in assembly which can effortlessly stream 4k video And on top of that is a UI slop layer that takes 5 seconds to respond to a button press

Working on adding asynchronous texture loading using Pixel Buffer Objects (PBOs) This should allow textures to be loaded to the GPU without stalling the main thread (currently causes stuttering)

Regular people have no idea how powerful CPUs are Most software engineers have no idea how powerful GPUs are