refined the 3d cursor a bit.

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

added an outline to the 3d cursor so it's always visible

#EniBlockGame #GameDev #IndieDev

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i can now overlay a block breaking decal on blocks, and it works on blocks with shell texturing and even nominally on objects like ferns and flowers

i draw the block's faces again using the stencil buffer, then draw the breaking decal with depth read/write off, masking using the stencil buffer

the way it works for ferns/flowers is i just draw all faces of the breaking pattern block, and any pixels outside the object model are masked

#EniBlockGame #GameDev #IndieDev #ProcGen #PixelArt

[cwebber@social.coop]

@eniko what this game really needs is awkward 2.5d, like the sonic doom mods

[cwebber@social.coop]

@eniko I can only assume you're already a fan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyZ2AeNeTKk

[cwebber@social.coop]

@eniko I said "awkward" but honestly Sonic Robo Blast is a better 3d sonic than most of the 3d sonics

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cwebber i wish i could use 2D sprites but voxel games have a lot of looking straight up or down :/

[cwebber@social.coop]

@eniko Ah, so true

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@cwebber it's fine i'll just do a nice vibey PSX low poly style for models instead

[cwebber@social.coop]

@eniko ooh love that

[lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko Looks very nice! How does it look in motion?

[eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lisyarus atm it's just drawing it wherever I'm pointing at atm since I was just figuring out how to draw the decal at all

[cwebber@social.coop]

@eniko I think even Star Fox 1 style SuperFX graphics would work really well

Have you seen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNa39u4fV1w ? I really like that style resurrection

[lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@eniko Ahhh, I see!

In one old voxel project I just showed a tiny UI progress bar above the crosshair, that's it. It fit the sci-fi theme nicely, though!