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[JobLeonard]

Btw, this devlog writing here on forum, is great thing, I´m on my 1st project with writing devlog. It keeps developer better on track, even if track is not totally straight and without issues. But it´s much better to develop and share, than just develop.

That's what this forum is all about!

It died out a bit with people migrating to Twitter and Discord, but imo neither comes close to a good forum discussion

[RealScaniX]

Yes, I agree. It's great to show your stuff and get feedback. It may not be easy to get others to participate in the thread and give feedback, but it's one of the sources of motivation and those are rare and necessary.

[Thaumaturge]

I hope that I can continue working on this next week. Some real life things got in the way and I currently cannot really concentrate on gamedev.

I'm sorry to read of extraneous things stopping your game-dev; I hope that it's nothing too untoward, and that you get to return to game-dev at whatever point is best for you.

[RealScaniX]

It's nothing super serious, but my free time will be a bit reduced for a while.
I have some nice and funny (in my weird sense of humor) ideas that I cannot wait to bring to life, though.
 

[JobLeonard]

Well, even though you assure us it's not serious I hope you'll be doing well

[RealScaniX]

Well, even though you assure us it's not serious I hope you'll be doing well

Thank you! I really appreciate it.

[Thaumaturge]

It's nothing super serious, but my free time will be a bit reduced for a while.
I have some nice and funny (in my weird sense of humor) ideas that I cannot wait to bring to life, though.

I'm really glad that it's nothing super serious, at least. As to the free time, fair enough--that does happen from time to time, I daresay! ^_^

I'm rather intrigued to learn what those new ideas might be--especially given their being "nice and funny according to a weird sense of humour"! ^_^

[RealScaniX]

I finally had time to work on the game again & started with some lighting tests for a new place.
The house in "Darkness" does not have much lighting, but I want to have nice light sources & shadows here.
 
Took a while to get it all to work.
 
First the voxel import pipeline I am using (to load the magicavoxel objects, split them, modify normals, set materials and merge them again to export the final meshes to use in the scenes) killed the uv2 channel which holds the lightmap uvs. So I needed to change my tool scripts a bit.
After lots of playing around with the stuff I was able to get a nice lighting to work.
 
Afterwards I have added the particles for the flame, sparks and smoke.
For the flame I had to add something special to the shader to make it stay in front of the torch at all times, which was accomplished by adding a vertex offset towards the camera.
 
Now that I have an idea of how things are going to work here, I can start modeling the place and the contents.
 

[Thaumaturge]

That looks pretty cool, I think, and I'm glad that you got everything working in the end! ^_^

[vdapps]

Glad to see your new post. Torches look great, love those tiny particles sparkling from it. Small detail but noticeable and makes difference.

[RealScaniX]

That looks pretty cool, I think, and I'm glad that you got everything working in the end! ^_^

Thank you! I'm still not very used to lightmapping and there is some work ahead of me, but I will first build the scene and then come back to lighting.
 

Glad to see your new post. Torches look great, love those tiny particles sparkling from it. Small detail but noticeable and makes difference.

Thank you! I still cannot do much during the week, but I'm starting to get used to my new schedule and will hopefully make some progress from now on.
And those torches totally needed some sparks. 

[JobLeonard]

The house in "Darkness" does not have much lighting

Heh, this reads like some wise proverd :p

Funny how I never noticed you had a depth of field effect before!

[RealScaniX]

The house in "Darkness" does not have much lighting

Heh, this reads like some wise proverd :p

Yes, this sounded funny in my head, too. ^^

Funny how I never noticed you had a depth of field effect before!

That's because you cannot look very far in the "Darkness" environment. There are a few lightsources with special meaning that you will be able to see from afar, but otherwise you are limited to the range of your light ball.

[RealScaniX]

A #voxel sarcophagus for the new place in "Darkness". This is a magicavoxel rendering, so it will look quite a bit different in the game.

It is part of the main puzzle in the new place, which is one of the "Lightworlds".
 
Next, I will split it into moving & static parts and add the mechanism to open it.
 

[RealScaniX]

This is pretty much how it will look in the game.
 
After assigning materials, smoothing some normals and pushing around the pivot points for the moving parts, the only thing left is adding the opening mechanics.
 

[JobLeonard]

Ohoho, you tease!

Also, just noticed those two tubes, wonder what they're for?

[RealScaniX]

Ohoho, you tease!

=P

Also, just noticed those two tubes, wonder what they're for?

This will become clear in one of the next posts, I hope.

[JobLeonard]

Does it involve a reference to people in the 19th century being scared of being buried alive?

[RealScaniX]

Does it involve a reference to people in the 19th century being scared of being buried alive?

No, it's for filling in water to make sure that they are really dead.

[JobLeonard]

Holy water? Vampires? Guuuh! Bleeegh!