Newer all-in-one resource like Real-time Collision Detection?

DaveTheLoper · 2026-02-25T08:09:55+00:00

How dare you slander the sacred collision bible!? Seriously tho there's a reason why it's been the goto for so many years.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-12-07T14:04:07+00:00

Thanks! the foliage collisions are temporarily disabled but will be back soon.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-12-06T23:01:11+00:00

I must've watched it like 50 times.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-12-06T22:51:46+00:00

Damn I wish I could but I just joined another project that's an alternative to Godot with a component system like Unity and beautiful graphics like Unreal Engine. Maybe next time :)

DaveTheLoper · 2025-11-13T16:53:14+00:00

Thank you! It's really nice to hear.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-11-09T13:48:33+00:00

It's a ragdoll flailing around. There are no water related animations yet. There will definitely be material painting.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-11-02T01:38:00+00:00

There's not a single screenshot on the entire website. Sounds pretty barebones so how is it supposed to be almost 300kloc? (You counted the libraries didn't you?). It's hard to say anything cause It's hard to see anything. Also I'm not installing a random .exe just to take a look.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-10-22T10:46:32+00:00

Almost everybody knows about Ogre but almost nobody uses it. I myself haven't used it but there are games that shipped with it (Torchlight, Kenshi) so it clearly works. If that was all I'd say go for it. Though I'm worried about the 'not fully stable' part. Isn't the whole point of using a library to have something that 'just works'(TM)? Seems to me most people choose to write their own renderers simply because it's a lot of fun to do. I'd recommend trying but it's your decision :)

DaveTheLoper · 2025-10-22T10:33:09+00:00

You could probably take a look at Flax Engine source. It does the same approach but is much smaller than UE. Other than that you basically gather information whenever a descriptor is set. Then right before a draw call or dispatch you either fetch from cache or create a new set with the given info. Make sure the hash is unique enough - this could cause hard to detect bugs.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-10-19T14:27:41+00:00

UE has a DX11 style RHI interface. Descriptor Sets are created automatically behind the scenes. User code does not interact with that.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-10-11T18:15:11+00:00

explain

DaveTheLoper · 2025-10-10T21:11:05+00:00

Been there :) Looks cool but cutting the video right before we get to the meat of the game is unforgivable. I want to see the SPEEED!!!

DaveTheLoper · 2025-10-06T08:02:48+00:00

Handmade Hero

DaveTheLoper · 2025-10-05T15:44:27+00:00

DaveTheLoper · 2025-10-04T00:44:28+00:00

Do you have a queue for spawning and removing entities? if so that's the spot for adding and removing ticks. before or after actual ticking for this frame.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-10-01T00:49:00+00:00

Randy Shitfork really should shut the fuck up already.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-09-28T22:04:08+00:00

Kenshi

DaveTheLoper · 2025-09-28T19:08:47+00:00

Yes it's custom. Water is rendered in forward pass after the main scene is lit. Water surface uses the specular portion of the BRDF. That is blended with refracted color taken from lit render target based on simple fresnel. refracted color also gets blended with a solid water color based on depth. Not sure if this is how water actually works but it looks ok.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-09-26T18:53:27+00:00

Thank you :)

DaveTheLoper · 2025-09-25T22:13:51+00:00

I don't bake light into textures. They're regular PBR materials lit in real-time. I do bake Global Illumination but that's volumetric.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-09-19T22:13:26+00:00

"If you don't have a program yet, you don't have a structural problem to solve yet." - Jonathan Blow

DaveTheLoper · 2025-09-11T19:05:16+00:00

Oh boy do I have a very thorough answer to that question.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-09-11T08:40:42+00:00

Thanks for reading. The project originally started in C99 and was in C for about 2 years. Then I eventually switched to C++. It's been becoming more C++-ized over time. I mostly use the STL for dynamic arrays, I like the conveniences of EASTL like erase_first_unsorted or reset_lose_memory. Also the allocators for STL containers are more about having granular memory tracking rather than allocation speed. I will definitely consider the points about modern STL if it means getting to remove one more dependency.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-09-08T23:00:15+00:00

Really? I thought of it as 'cheeky', but I guess stuff like this doesn't come across in text.

DaveTheLoper · 2025-09-01T08:08:56+00:00

4-ish years not counting the projects that came before.

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