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Gamedev Streaming resumes _tomorrow_ at noon, PST. Thinking of doing a demo of the "scaffold" tool I've been making for level design, and maybe a little lecture of scene geometry in 3D. #indiegamedev

Staring in about an hour twitch.tv/tinygalactic_g…

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VOD is up twitch.tv/videos/2423965…

Yesterday I streamed a bit breaking down the benefits of Scaffold, my level-editor-within-a-level-editor, and I think the material is interesting enough to write up a long-form article about it: youtu.be/RDZPNKNbJYc?si… #screenshotsaturday

Update from yesterday's stream -- the Scaffold level editor is now generating nav-data for AI-pathfinding in addition to blockout wall collision. #screenshotsaturday

I'm blogging again, baby! Breakdown of the motivations and inspirations for my new level editor, Scaffold: blog.littlepolygon.com/posts/scaffold/ #IndieGameDev

Mathy followup -- Decomposition isn't the only way to extract convex features from geometry -- another is Reparameterization. E.g. for spline-regions I do navigation in a "locally convex" coord-space using the distance-along-spline and offset-from-closest-point. #indiegamedev

Sorry, no stream today, just debugging which doesn't make for good theater, haha. Here's some behind the scenes stuff, though: I mathed-out "insetting" the links between navigation volumes, so that pathfinding units don't "cut corners" all the time. #indiegamedev

Apologies 🙏 There was no stream last week for a wedding, and no stream this week because I have another commitment. I'm going to try and plan things out more so that we can get back on a regular schedule next week.

I now have the beginning of a surface-style inspector in my level editor, and all it took was a mere 1,000 lines of code 😭

Scaffold Stylization update -- I'm not just texturing quads, but spawning "panel" meshes and using planar boolean-cuts to trim them to fit, form nice corner-joins, etc. #indiegamedev

Small quality-of-life improvement in the level editor -- surface styles are now propagated when extruding/bridging/subdividing new geo. #indiegamedev #screenshotsaturday

Nine-Guide Scaling in da custom level editor #indiegamedev

VOD for the latest twitch stream (sorry it's been a while! lol): twitch.tv/videos/2472708…

Talking a bit about the "grid tool" I've been making for authoring tile-like surfaces, inspired by the sets in Zone of the Enders. The ultimate goal is to make destructible environments youtu.be/Zm7ZJTxEfmI?si…

Pursuit Test #ScreenShotSaturday

Nightshift Galaxy devstream today in about an hour (noon PST) -- link in reply. 🎵 NEXZR 🎵

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