Game nearing playability

My game nears completion!
Recently I got chunk loading to be super fast(compared to what it was) which is a HUGE step toward playability.

Now on my list of things to do before it is playable:
- Fix a memory leak related to updating the chunks physics mesh info.
- Fix saving error.

- Minor error where mesh optimization code sometimes does not work properly.
- Decrease memory consumption for chunks (already have a few ideas which might make them use next to no memory)
- Ore spawning and caves
- Tweak surface terrain generation some more.
- Full HUD, Inventory, & Tool code.
- Chests and other storage unit's code.
- Tree Spawning.

Now for some pictures of my new Sky and Fog shaders after the break!

Latest post ever!

So yeah I just really didn't feel like posting.
But i did get a lot done, soon I will be moving on to things like actually getting tool code in, so tools will be a thing soon and then I can fix the saving bug and the game will be semi-playable!

Here is a really long list of things i got done after the break!

Sorry for the late post all none of my readers!
Accomplishments for this week:


- Upgraded the method for storing instances of key wrapper classes (shaders and FBO's) so that they may be automatically added to a list when created and have their data released on engine shutdown without me having to manually do it.
- Implemented shadow maps. Now I just need to get PCF filtering done for them.
- Moved cloud generation to a shader, instead of like 10 seconds to generate it now takes about 357 thousandths of a second(no joke).
- Tree's are almost done, I had leafs working but I am not happy with them so I will be adding code when the tree is generated that will generate a random twig and leaf texture to poke out of the branches. Prior to this the leafs were just bowls with a texture on them, which was quite ugly.
- Fiddled with terrain noise a bit and it is starting to look a lot more interesting.

OK this time I DID forget to post! V_V

So here is the list of my accomplishments for this week. Screenshots after the break.


- Added a highly dynamic FBO wrapper to the engine
- Re-coded the HUD to allow enabling of post-process rendering of the HUD elements.
- HUD now looks much better with a holographic feel and scanlines that move over it's surface.
- HUD also will occasionally "glitch" and scramble it's appearence for a very briefe moment which adds to it's virtual feel.
- Working on Random tree generator code.
- Worked some on biome code.

Almost forgot to update :c

Ok. so this week i played some games, which I haven't done for the past like 2 or 3 months.
In addition I also fixed all(i think) the memory leaks AND started rewriting my chunk rendering pipeline so that the amount of iterations over chunks is  (WORLD_SIZE^2)*4 rather than (World_SIZE^3)*4
So that should give me a nice boost of about 20 FPS. and it's at ~45 FPS now with a world size of 12 so that's probably going to bring average FPS on my laptop up to like ~60. Awesomeness! that means People will be able to run my game with a higher view distance, which is nice.

Next on my list:

• Biome code(I call it zones but whatever.)
• Finish my random tree generation code (just have to add branches and leafs)
• Finish ore spawning code
• Finish cave spawning code
• Implement tools
• Make code for interacting with physics items (picking things up and whatnot)

Fixed some memory leaks...

So There were some memory leaks that decided to come out of hiding a few days ago, they corrupted the skysphere's vertex info and slowed down the engine and many other nasty things. So I spent all day today hunting them down, i found the largest leaks and plugged them up but there are still 2 that  elude me, both of which are always present even if i make the main function simply return immediately. so the leaks probably reside in a library that's being loaded. maybe i compiled Bullet wrong? IDK but they don't seem to affect the gameplay so i am forgetting about them for now, they are small anyways only a total of 2130 bytes.

Fog and terrain generation changes

So I am working on rendering really distant terrain, and also i'm changing the terrain generation algorithms.

Here's some early pictures (after the break) of distant terrain!
Oh and PLEASE leave a comment, even if it's just something like "awesome!" or just "neat."