Ramblings about hobbyist game development
– add a UI for the wall draw mode
– add UI for the current funds
– add a rudimenteray concept of current funds to the games state
This introduces the concept of “funds”, which already resides in the GameState and could be updated, but nothing is done with it yet.
As far as the wall draw mode is concerened, check out this video:
replace the “reset position” function on the camera with “set position”
This will make it easier to use it for different purposes down the line.
– slightly change the keymap
– make the zoom controllable via the mouse wheel
– make the rotation snappier by adding a reset behaviour similar to the scrolling when changing direction
After improving the scrolling it was also time to revisit the rotation.
hide walls that have a used tile behind them, depending on the angle of the camera
Besides the set the walls to be “always up” and “always down” add a third mode, that automatically puts the walls down if they are on the “inside” of a building. The overly simple method to determine this is if a tile that is not just ground/grass is behind that piece of wall – depending on the camera angle looking at it:
move the drawing of minimised walls to the shaders, do not manually change the vertex data
So far, when minimising/maximising the wall view, the full vertex data is being updated, which is not exactly very efficient. Fix it!
when drawing the grid or marking tiles or wall tiles for selection do not take the current illumination into account
Having visual elements that do not actually “exist” in the game world react to the illumination made them look slightly weird.
Squash some smaller issues
It is, big surprise, about mutexes.
change the hue of the colour depending on the current time of day
This make things surprisingly nice to look at 🙂
It changes the colour from a bluish hue to a reddish/orange one at dawn and dusk. This is sped up to 150% in order not to bore you too much 🙂
fine-tuning of the illumination settings
This mainly changes the weighting of global illumination applied to everything and directed illumination, as otherwise some faces were nearly black.
add normals to the walls and tiles and use the global illumination
What has already been added to the models is now also added to the tiles and walls. Besides the shaders, that also means that we now need to calculate normals when generating the model data.