Okay I'm actually really fucking proud of this effect. #indiegamedev #fantasyconsole #athena32 - ThreadSky

glairedaggers.bsky.social • 80 days ago

Okay I'm actually really fucking proud of this effect.

#indiegamedev #fantasyconsole #athena32

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cyon4d.bsky.social•79 days ago

Awesome.

glairedaggers.bsky.social•80 days ago

Would be neat to experiment with exporting a walkmesh from Blender & using it at runtime to implement player movement.

Could make for a really neat sample "game" tbh.

glairedaggers.bsky.social•80 days ago

(also it's really funny to me how extremely close the "walkmesh" in FF7/8/9 was to just being a straight up navmesh lol)

glairedaggers.bsky.social•80 days ago

Like no joke, it stores pretty much all of the relevant information you'd need to implement pathfinding on top. Even stores neighbors for each edge!

glairedaggers.bsky.social•80 days ago

In the original FF this was basically just used for "collision" - if you know what triangle an actor currently occupies, when they move you check if they cross any of that triangle's edges. If so:

- If edge has a neighbor, set current triangle to neighbor.
- Else, clamp actor position to edge

glairedaggers.bsky.social•80 days ago

- Made a new environment rendered out from Blender 2.7 btw, so this is all classic Blender Internal renderer :)
- Added sprite drawing functions, and made ordering tables support sprites as well as triangles (BG is submitted as layered sprites with depth)

raivenia.bsky.social•80 days ago

This is all coming along so well 🥺

anniesden.dev•80 days ago

Yessss I love depth map masking it's so much fun

glairedaggers.bsky.social•80 days ago

In this case, since I don't have access to a depth map, I'm manually splitting the render into multiple layers & assigning each layer a z-index 😅

glairedaggers.bsky.social•80 days ago

(I imagine this is probably pretty close to what old PSX games actually did as well)

anniesden.dev•80 days ago

Oooh that's simple. I was pretty sure PS1 and N64 games used a lot of depth masking for pre-rendered scenes though 🤔

glairedaggers.bsky.social•80 days ago

N64 yes, PS1 no. Keep in mind, the PS1 didn't *have* a depth buffer at all! Plain old sorted geometry and that's it.

echon30nl1ght.bsky.social•80 days ago

This is looking super smooth! I’m not familiar with the technical side of things but you’ve nailed the retro feel

michealtheratz.on.computer•80 days ago

You used blender’s internal rendering engine? How?

glairedaggers.bsky.social•79 days ago

It's definitely tough getting to grips with such an old version (good lord I forgot how bad the UI was before the refresh and I swear if I had a nickel for every time I accidentally moved my 3D cursor.... 😭)

But the results are definitely 90s as hell, so worth it I think!

glairedaggers.bsky.social•79 days ago

I downloaded Blender 2.79 and wrestled with its UI for a while lol

michealtheratz.on.computer•79 days ago

I still don’t understand what it’s used for. How did you get a fantasy console running on it? I see you use C#. I am kind of confused right now.

glairedaggers.bsky.social•79 days ago

It was used to render the sewer environment shown in the above demo.

The fantasy console is completely separate, it's made with C# and SDL3 and allows users to make games in JavaScript.

glairedaggers.bsky.social•79 days ago

In the demo above, I created and rendered a sewer environment. The demo uses this as a pre-rendered background, like old Final Fantasy games used, showing a realtime 3D cube being moved around the prerendered environment.

michealtheratz.on.computer•79 days ago

Holy shit I’m dumb. I just realized that the environment was pre-rendered lol. I thought you managed to use blender’s renderer as a graphics framework or something lol.

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