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[…]
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Author: koder
Software developer by trade, gamer by heart.
Remaking the ships
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[…]
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K37 MK2
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.
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Improving the shaders
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[…]
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The Emergent Emergency
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[…]
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Render sprites with normal maps in Blender
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[…]
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Getting things under LIDAR
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[…]
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Coherent Light CL-150 Mk3
CL-150 Mk3 mining laser is a powerful tool for any ring prospector. While expensive, it can be easily retrofitted even to ancient K37-TNTRL and will boost mining output by orders of magnitude. Pilots should be[…]
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Expanding the HUD
Continued work on HUD of K37. I’m trying to design its display to mimic modern civilian jets. Today I added ship mass data and prototype mouse control – it will allow player to fine-tune ships[…]
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A dive into The Ring
I always envisioned the initial sequence of diving into The Ring as a short cutscene showing starship on final approach on a pillar of nuclear fire, providing a comfortable standard gravity for the crew for[…]
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