Over the past couple weeks I've completely revamped the terrain in my game #MetalMercs. Here's where we are now, but how did we get here? #Godot #IndieGame #IndieGames #GameDev - ThreadSky

retroactiongames.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Over the past couple weeks I've completely revamped the terrain in my game #MetalMercs. Here's where we are now, but how did we get here?

#Godot #IndieGame #IndieGames #GameDev

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retroactiongames.bsky.social•5 days ago

Here's what maps used to look like. Not terrible, but the mountains and hills clearly look like they could be improved.

retroactiongames.bsky.social•5 days ago

The first step to improve things was an experimental shader. Could I use noise maps to make mountains that actually look like mountains? After a day of shader coding, the answer was yes!

retroactiongames.bsky.social•5 days ago

The next step from here was to expand the shader to generate not just mountains but hills and elevation, along with water.

At this point I had painted a much nicer looking battlefield, but it was just that, a picture. So how do I make it playable?

retroactiongames.bsky.social•5 days ago

So I was going to use the generated terrain as a background image on which to place all my mechs. But I would need information about the terrain so I know where my mechs can walk. So from the noise that generated our map, we produce a simplified mask where each color represents a different terrain

retroactiongames.bsky.social•5 days ago

Next step, take that mask and reduce its resolution down so we can deal with 32x32 tiles at a time (the size of my units) and categorize each tile into terrain types that the game can understand. In short, red is impassable, green are elevations, blue is water

retroactiongames.bsky.social•5 days ago

With our profiled terrain we can now look at our generated terrain image and clearly see boundaries in our game which we can use to block navigation, or determine the elevation of units. We can also see which tiles count as water tiles

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