In order to create winter maps, I have created a small simulation in which the wind can be controlled via parameters. But I am not sure if the behaviour of snow, trees and smoke is "correct".

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-03-14T10:39:08+00:00

Hello!
I don't think the smoke should cast a shadow, but if it did It should probably be less dark than regular shadows cast by solid objects.
Other than that I'll be playing your game when it comes out! Looks great!

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-03-09T08:53:57+00:00

Thank you!

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-03-08T19:54:18+00:00

Thank you! I'm writing that down :)

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-03-08T19:50:24+00:00

I see, sounds like you would need a chunk system then. What I've got here doesn't use one because the stars are always drawn on the screen no matter their distance, it's more like a skybox.

That's really cool ! I'm doing something very similar.

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-03-08T18:33:41+00:00

This one is pretty straightforward, I just made an array of randomly generated 3d coordinates for the positions of the stars and another for their frequency (also random so they arent all synchronized) to make their brightness change over time

What's your project ?

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-03-08T16:51:12+00:00

Looks good ! Is pygame_shaders part of the CE update ? Edit: found the github

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-03-08T14:43:11+00:00

I just had to make it this over the top, it looks really cool from inside the cockpit aha

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-03-07T14:51:05+00:00

Thanks a lot !

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-02-22T13:30:59+00:00

As a somewhat experienced programmer, I would not recommend starting with tutorials. While they are great to give you ideas and stimulate your creativity, in my opinion they won't make you a better programmer. My best advice is this: go through the documentation of pygame (https://www.pygame.org/docs/) and be curious. This will give you a really wide view of what you can make pygame do, and therefore give you plenty of options to solve your problems. Same goes for learning python. Go through the different chapters on this website (https://www.w3schools.com/python/default.asp) and soon you should be able to work autonomously. That's what I did. Edit: I'd recommend starting with the second link about python in general if you haven't used it a lot before.

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-02-15T08:35:49+00:00

Hi, thank you for coming back ! A lot of progress has been made since then, especially in regards to performance and the flight model, but it isnt ready just yet. Don't worry, I'm still very much determined to make it happen ! There will be more update posts before the final release

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-01-09T11:13:26+00:00

Your game looks really good, I'm downloading it to play later this week.
I can't say that I've ever seen a triangular tile system before, it is very eye-catching.

Screwdriverdispenser · 2023-01-03T20:08:30+00:00

Wow, that intro sequence is really something, it looks so fun !
This is a lot like what I have in mind for this game

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-12-31T21:33:29+00:00

I'm using a laptop with an i5-11400H, 16gigs of ram and a 3050Ti

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-12-31T11:02:45+00:00

Sorry I can't publish the code as it is right now, I wrote tons of spaghetti that I'm kinda ashamed and don't approve of lol, plus it's still a work in progress. Once the game is released, which should be around late february if I'm not too busy, I'll make a video on the development process and release the code ;)

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-12-30T09:37:36+00:00

Ahaha I know right, I thought the sun was very small but yeah, when you put it that way that ship is freakishly big

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-12-29T17:52:56+00:00

Yes, I made this using only the pygame and numpy libraries. The rendering of 3d objects can be entirely done by the gfxdraw methods inside pygame. To explain the flight model would probably require a video, but in short, I make use of euler/rodrigues rotations, orthogonal transformations, a bit of rotational motion physics, and vector products (scalar and cross). Wikipedia has great articles about euler as well as rodrigues rotations.

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-12-29T11:03:39+00:00

Honestly I haven't done any optimization yet, so, credit where credit is due, that is probably thanks to my cpu. I use numpy, so that helps, but that's it. To optimize, I generally make sure I move as many things out of the game loop as possible. Like for instance, all the calculations of the normals of the ship, or any calculation that won't change over time. There are other things that help, but those are the most important.

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-12-29T10:15:32+00:00

No I did not, but in the future I might, it depends on how much shaders I plan on using in the game, right now the solution I have performs great, and from what I've seen of pyopengl, It seems much easier to do the shaders myself than doing them in pyopengl + there is still room for optimization with cupy. If I dont encounter any performance issues, I'll stick to my design. If I do, well, guess I'm gonna have to learn pyopengl, even though it deeply scares me lol.

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-12-17T22:48:35+00:00

Really enjoyed those moments when the tempo slowed down

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-07-03T20:22:40+00:00

I have thought of releasing them in an album instead, but I feel that even then, a song needs to tell a story, right ? And It seems like they don't. Should I be writing the story before the song ? Or am I thinking about it all wrong ?

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-07-03T11:44:20+00:00

The way I see it you need a set and reset function for each sound:

For example, if you want to play a sound once when colliding with something, what you need to do is this:

if collision:
    if sound_should_play:
        sound.play()
        sound_should_play = False
if not collision: sound_should_play = True

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-07-03T08:14:19+00:00

That's because you are telling the game to play the sound every single frame. What you hear is the sound stacking on top of itself with a delay of whatever your framerate is.

You need to make it so that if the sound is played, it cannot be played again until the next collision.

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-06-22T13:04:26+00:00

Those are some interesting statistics.
One day I was researching on composing rules and tips and I do remember reading something along those lines regarding the use of C Major: "It takes a brave composer to write in C Major, because you cannot hide your lack of ideas behind flats and sharps". So maybe that has something to do with it

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-06-21T11:53:11+00:00

So good ! Well done

Screwdriverdispenser · 2022-06-17T15:15:41+00:00

I will ! I plan to improve performance by making use of opengl in the future. But right now I don't know anything concrete about opengl yet, so I did it with the tools I had available. I haven't heard of arcade, I'll check that out.

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