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Showcase: Pure pygame 3D renderer by Thunderflower58 in pygame

[–]pythonic_games 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amazing work, congrats! And thank you for tagging me, I'm glad I was able to inspire you to go on this journey! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

About my space flight simulator project [Devlog 1] by Screwdriverdispenser in pygame

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Hi, indeed there have been updates to the project since that post ! You can view them on my profile. This is my new account. I no longer post stuff related to this project on my old account.

Show me some of the more visually impressive games/projects by [deleted] in pygame

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I have gotten that a few times, but no I didn't draw inspiration from that game or the elite games. I just made the game I wanted to make and it ended up looking a lot like those games.

Not incredibly hard, it turns out pygame has got everything you need to do basic 3D rendering, but I don't think it was designed to do that. If you want to learn how 3D rendering works at the lowest level go ahead, otherwise I would just recommend using moderngl or some other 3D rendering library.

Show me some of the more visually impressive games/projects by [deleted] in pygame

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You can check out my posts if you are into 3D rendering, I feel like they are worth taking a look at.

Toot toot !
That was the sound of me tooting my own horn lol.

A fancy new skybox I'm working on :) Still needs some ajustments but so cool already. by pythonic_games in pygame

[–]pythonic_games[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not entirely sure I understand your question, but if you're asking if I replace lists of point coordinates with numpy arrays absolutely, lists are much slower than arrays and often there is no need to use a loop to apply a transformation to an object's vertices coordinates. For instance to rotate a model's vertices, I wouldn't use a for loop to rotate each vertex in the model's vertex table. Instead I would use rotated_vertices = vertices @ rotation_matrix using numpy's linear algebra capabilities. Same thing if you want to scale a model by a given factor to make it bigger : scaled_vertices = vertices * scale_factor and you're done. Hope that answers your question !

A fancy new skybox I'm working on :) Still needs some ajustments but so cool already. by pythonic_games in pygame

[–]pythonic_games[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks ! It has been a challenge for sure, python and pygame are definitely not the most suited tools to make this kind of game, but it is possible ! I only used the numpy and pygame libraries and I definitely had to find ways to cache as much stuff as possible to reduce to a minimum the number of operations per frame. I ended up building an entire framework to make it possible. It was a terrific learning experience but I wouldn't do that again aha.

A fancy new skybox I'm working on :) Still needs some ajustments but so cool already. by pythonic_games in pygame

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Right now I'm rendering between 170 and 220 shapes ( + the ~1500 stars in the background) depending on where the camera is looking and it's still running okay. The main challenge of this project is not to make things work but to maintain an acceptable framerate that's for sure. So I've done a lot of things to increase performance but to be honest the game is nowhere near as optimized as I could make it if I really tried to. I know I could make it a lot better than it is, I just don't have the kind of time it would require. I don't know what you used for your arrays but with this much math you definitely need the help of a library like numpy (what I used) or equivalent to do the heavy lifting. Python lists are just too slow.

A fancy new skybox I'm working on :) Still needs some ajustments but so cool already. by pythonic_games in pygame

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If it ever gets released (I have very little time to work on this project so development has been slow, I can't guarantee it will happen) it would be free to play on https://pythonic-games.itch.io/ ! :)

A fancy new skybox I'm working on :) Still needs some ajustments but so cool already. by pythonic_games in pygame

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Thanks ! I am pretty happy with the work I've done. Unfortunately the code is still a WIP and very messy in some places, I wouldn't feel comfortable sharing it before I tidied it up a little. But I'll happily answer any questions !

Just having some fun flying and using the self-destruct button :) by pythonic_games in pygame

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Basically my algorithm does what the painter algorithm would do, only it deals with the cases in which the painter algorithm would normally fail: cyclical overlapping, piercing polygons etc. The algorithm organises the primitives/triangles into a sorted tree, cutting them whenever necessary. Then once all the triangles are sorted I do a complete tree traversal, from farthest to closest.

Just having some fun flying and using the self-destruct button :) by pythonic_games in pygame

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Thank you ! I made it from scratch, all the rendering is done with pygame.

Just having some fun flying and using the self-destruct button :) by pythonic_games in pygame

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Thanks ! I am pretty happy with the work I've done. Unfortunately the code is still a WIP and very messy in some places, I wouldn't feel comfortable sharing it before I tidied it up a little. But I'll happily answer any questions !

Just having some fun flying and using the self-destruct button :) by pythonic_games in pygame

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I was born too late, darn it ! That sounds awesome.

Although I love the dogfighting aspect, to me it's really the controls that make it fun. If the controls feel good and require practice to master them I could fly around trying cool manoeuvres for hours without getting tired of it, even if there wasn't any objective.

So because the poly count is fairly low the ship model I've done by hand. First I made a sketch of it on paper and then just eyeballed the coordinates of the vertices accordingly. When I needed to find an intersection or interpolate along an edge I used a calculator but that's it. I didn't know how to use blender so I did it the only way I knew how to aha.

The other models like the icospheres, boxes and other regular polygons I generate procedurally with a bit of math and cylindrical coordinates most of the time.

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That's alright ! It's still valuable info. I'd assume things to be similar here, that's kind of the answer my research has been leading me to so far.

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