I spent most of the recent week debugging and fine-tuning the game. Nothing spectacular, just few touches here and there, addition of vibration feedback for gamepad, automatic control scheme detection, fixing some audio glitches, fine-tuning[…]
Knowledge of contents of your cargo hold is a key for successful excavation business. While skilled geologist can tell mineral composition by visual observation alone, this in not a reliable method. Luckily Rosatom-Antonow K37 cargo[…]
Autopilot control got complete overhaul. Pilot can now point orientation of the ship with a mouse and control desired movement vector independently from orientation. This allows fine control required to catch asteroids with extractor. LIDAR was augmented[…]
I made new procedural materials for the K37 model. They have a quite complex model, but since I’m not rendering that model in-game it only affects renderings of the sprites. Procedural model uses vertex map[…]
A decided to get the K37 a complete makeover. While earlier versions had all the necessary systems, they didn’t really look like a real ship. I did some research on industrial design and came with[…]
A preview on work-in-progress re-imagining of Rosatom-Antonov K37 Turbined Nuclear Thermal Rocket with Lorentz-effect accelerator. Pictured ship without impact shielding.
Godot 3 has a built-in normal mapping shader for 2D sprites. It works, but doesn’t really offer anything outside standard normal mapping. I want more. My new shader adds separate diffuse, specular and ambient occlusion[…]
Sometimes you design a game mechanics, and sometimes, when you are lucky enough, it emerges out of nowhere and surprises you. ΔV had a power balance mechanics in place for a while now. All systems[…]
Both “ΔV” and “In Dead Company” use 2D sprites with normal maps to make 3D visual lighting effect. Oversimplifying, a normal map is a map showing where each pixel of the sprite faces. It’s a[…]
A bit longer gameplay video, featuring precision ring maneuvers, enlarged asteroids, Doppler Effect LIDAR and a bit of Coherent Light CL-150 Mk3 mining laser action. The big addition is the LIDAR. I found designing long-range imaging is[…]
