More block editing.

I created a Unity component to allow me to easily add these cube models in-game.

I also use a wild color in the blocks so that I can swap out certain blocks for team-colored ones.

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And then I added smooth lighting and a grid texture to make the edges stand out, and to make ships feel more like block models.

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Space.

So, I have a full time programming internship now, and that’s awesome.

I’ve still done a bit of personal programming in the evenings and on the weekends, but I haven’t updated my blog.

Until now.

 

I’ve been floating between various ideas for a while, and there are many details that I’m not certain of yet, but I’m pretty sure it will involve hex tiles and cubes in space.

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This weekend (the weekend including June 23rd, 2013), I started work on a cube editor, and now I have it up to a comfortable usable state. It’s still very crude, but it gets the job done.

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I’ll be updating my progress every weekend (maybe).

Enjoy.

 

Beginning optimization.

I just recently got the generation speed up to roughly 26 vertices per millisecond on a single core, so I can now generate much larger volumes without as much wait.

 

Terrain experimentation.

I initially thought that I made an error in my normal-averaging calculations (on tracking linked vertices), but after adding wire-frame rendering, a lot of small triangles become visible. Right now I’m debating on whether or not to cull these out or come up with a weighted averaging system that includes these.

 

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