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[Crimsontide]

That's what I did - stored the closest point (: Didn't think about the diagonal method, though - got to try that too. And maybe implement this on a GPU to see how fast it actually is.

What's the motivation, though? What would you use something like this for? Particles colliding with geometry and maybe raymarching are the only examples I came up with after some thinking.

Really?  Nice.  Clearly my idea wasn't as unique as I thought it was.

My motivation is for ray marching/tracing.  I have a voxel 'map' but I don't want the cubish look of all the 'voxel' games out there.  So I create a signed distance field from map, and then ray trace over that in real time.

[powly]

Oh cool, I find the cubey look pretty boring - we have the hardware to render pretty things so let's use it! And with a distance field pretty lighting will be very easy - can march for shadows, maybe fake some AO and even SSS if your world has things that need it. I'd probably still convert the thing into a mesh especially if it doesn't change every frame just for the performance gain, but it won't probably look as good and would be a pain to get working.

Good luck implementing it and be sure to post some screens!

[Crimsontide]

Oh cool, I find the cubey look pretty boring - we have the hardware to render pretty things so let's use it! And with a distance field pretty lighting will be very easy - can march for shadows, maybe fake some AO and even SSS if your world has things that need it. I'd probably still convert the thing into a mesh especially if it doesn't change every frame just for the performance gain, but it won't probably look as good and would be a pain to get working.

Good luck implementing it and be sure to post some screens!

I will, but that won't be for a few months.

[Geti]

Do it tonight or this weekend. Ludum dare 48 raymarch those voxels to death.

But yeah no it doesn't take too long to get something running as proof of concept, here's a few afternoons of hacking in free hours at uni from several pages back in this thread, using procedural distance fields in software only (hence the 4fps and tiny res, haha).



Do it!

[Prinsessa]

SDL 2.0 makes me very happy. Will be trying it out properly for this Ludum Dare. Half a day left!

[Geti]

SDL 2.0 makes me very happy.

Yeah I've been looking over it all week and getting a nerd boner for all the wrong reasons, haha. Looks like it does more out of the box especially re: different display sizes which is super cool to not have to handle yourself.
I'm hoping I can find some time to jam with it this weekend too, but I've also got "real work" to do, both uni and KAG

[Fallsburg]

I finally started diving into Unity's custom editor scripts.  Holy shit, you can do some sweet stuff with it. 

[Muz]

been coding the whole day, lying on a bed with my laptop. didn't eat much.

checked my blood pressure... it was 138/70 (quite a bit above average), heart rate 118 bpm (also quite high).

happy because programming counts as legit exercise.

[King Tetiro]

This weekend I finished the basic requirements for the Legena Engine. Cutscenes will now be programmed far more efficiently! Wooo!

[Geti]

happy because programming counts as legit exercise.

heh.

Happy because i just spent the night fixing bugs that should not have been released but had to be for API changes to go ahead - having them gone will mean significantly less butthurt

[Liza]

been coding the whole day, lying on a bed with my laptop. didn't eat much.

checked my blood pressure... it was 138/70 (quite a bit above average), heart rate 118 bpm (also quite high).

happy because programming counts as legit exercise.

That, or you should get yourself checked out just in case

[ThemsAllTook]

Using your brain can be pretty exhausting. Unfortunately it doesn't do much to keep the rest of the body from atrophying...

[Schoq]

seems more to me like programming counts as a legit illness :(

[Geti]

Got embedded tcc compiling and running C as a scripting language in a tinkering prototype engine. Can reload from and save its source to disk, obvious next thing to do is write a code editor using this so I can modify it with itself without ever closing the binary...

[RetsamugA]

im fascinated with the idea of mising programming and ART. Or instead of make serious practical programs, i make art-programs. These art-programs are my "games" :D. Im a happy coder(sometimes)

[Geti]

RetsamugA sounds like you're making demos, post some

Tinkered with the tcc stuff some more and found out that I could use static variables inside each script object and have them "just work", essentially giving me syntactically clean "script local" variables.
Also made a way of associating functions with integers (eg hashes of strings or an enum depending on approach, backend is just a binary tree) which gives a standard interface for accessing and calling the code after its been compiled.
Need to expose it to the scripts themselves so I can just have a standard "main" type method called that they bind themselves with.
Calling something that's not there is the same as executing { return 0; } basically. So far it's working well, though I should really stop burning time on it 

[Quarry]

I'M WEB/GAME NOW!

[RetsamugA]

RetsamugA sounds like you're making demos, post some

Im in love with the demoscene, but im not part of it XD. Im not that talented, and in Argentina the scene had never exist XD . It would be amazing

[powly]

in Argentina the scene had never exist

Definitely not true (: Even if the local scene is rather inactive, you can still submit remote entries to many demoparties. It's quite different than attending yourself of course but usually feels nice to release something.

[Geti]

Demoscene doesn't have entry requirements Just start writing some demos! It'll make you happy.