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just realized I have several gigs of photos over the years from walking around and going on trips. I can make textures and models from past adventures instead of always having to plan something and making a day out of reference gathering...

Took some photos from my yard today to make more surface textures and vegetation models. Really satisfied with the way it's all coming together. I'm in love with how the hand painted vertex colors I did combine with the per-pixel directional lighting. My visuals feel perfectly 2000s era #godotengine

recently I added a sprint button to my game that makes you move faster on the map and adds after images, but because it's a multiplier on analog input it has the accidental effect where you can just dramatically speed walk which is slower than running normally but still leaves a trail 😂

Learning that trench broom became a dumping ground for AI slop makes me feel much better about wanting to purge it from my workflow. It really brought me no benefit and the entire pipeline felt like a hack versus building scenes directly in godot.

Got it working 🥳 github.com/func-godot/f...

No one fucking held me accountable to this, I haven't posted any rendered art since offkai because I keep getting distracted with my programming projects 😭

bouncing back and forth between my game and openvt has been doing a lot for me in terms of understanding more of godot. I've been using it for a long time already, but there's whole areas I never really explored before, particularly with 3D, that have been fun to learn

Been making steady improvements to OpenVT, so let's go over most of the user facing recent changes from the past couple weeks! Plenty of additions to blueprints, as well as general usability tweaks 🧵

7. A profile system has been added for portable configs. Useful for streamers who may have different preferred hardware configurations per model, or who are sharing a setup where each person has their own preferences. Profiles are simple json files, save and load them from anywhere on disk.

Been making steady improvements to OpenVT, so let's go over most of the user facing recent changes from the past couple weeks! Plenty of additions to blueprints, as well as general usability tweaks 🧵

3. The new Tween node allows for smoothly fading between values over a period of time. Recommended to be paired with toggles, as it doesn't work for frequently changing tracker values. You can use it for simple animations between states

Been making steady improvements to OpenVT, so let's go over most of the user facing recent changes from the past couple weeks! Plenty of additions to blueprints, as well as general usability tweaks 🧵

A lot of work on my game this past week. I rebuilt the hub using trenchbroom, with props, lighting, and logic laid out in Godot. I also just split up character models over the past day so I can have a doll system, simplifying humanoids and allowing for character customization

damn Kate is surprisingly really functional. Full LSP and DAP support, and runs super slim. KDE apps have always hit or miss for me, but slowly they've been winning me over. I'd love to cut out VSC entirely, as it's one of the last vestiges of M$ in my life, save for my xbox. Here's hoping it sticks

Ya know, for awhile I worried that I was stagnating in my career, that I was never going to go beyond senior level. But now I think about it, I really couldn't care less about putting myself through more hell and responsibility for a job that's wouldn't bother to do the same for me.

in the past I worked for a company made apps for google glass and hololens, which I knew were over hyped shit doomed to fail. So it especially makes me upset that now I look back longingly because at least it was a more fun and hopeful promise for the future than the pervert AI glasses we have today

not enough new games that try to tap into "retro" have ps1/ps2 sounding OSTs. We're so lost only locking onto NES and Genesis era chiptunes without proceeding beyond that. I need more games with funky tunes that stand tall alongside Ridge Racer or that have the charm of ToHeart2

there's been an uptick in games doing PS1/N64 style 3D, but something about their OSTs just don't feel right. Maybe I'm just grumpy and feel like there's too many people who grew up on nintendo and want to make nintendo music instead of exploring the full spread of genres featured in 90s games