A final project before graduating.
The core concept is a procedurally generated world that the player can explore. More details and gameplay might be added along the way.
- Generate random z values to create hills
- Look up and implement Perlin/Simplex noise
- Return z value to player
- Randomize x and y values as well, to avoid grid feeling
- Create world class with global world functions
- Generate nine terrain tiles
- Calculate if tiles are too far away and should be removed
- Generate new terrain tiles
- Smooth adding and removing of tiles (distance/fog?)
- Tweak layered noise for better terrain generation
- Generate environment (flowers, trees, ponds)
- Randomize rotation, height and models of flowers and trees
- Add content not only to vertices
- Create tree- and flower meshes, to cut down on rendering
- Turn meshes into instance buffers or use object pooling
- Don't add stuff on top of each other
- Get y value from terrain
- Mouse movements through raycasting
- Third person view
- Collision detection
- Find better sprite for player
- Only render terrain in view
- Smooth chase cam
- Nicer colors and overall look
- Continuously generated world, or world as sphere
- Some actual gameplay
- Vegetation meshes added, but very sensitive and a bit buggy
- Added layered noise function, needs to be tweaked
- Started on vegetation meshes
- Refactored tiles into World object for global world functions and terrain calculations
- Calculated if tiles should be removed
- Ditched moving terrain, focusing on chunks/tiles instead
- Added basic terrain generation on movement
- Added shadows to trees
- Configured colors and randomization
- Basic randomized addition of trees and flowers to terrain based on vertex and simplex noise
- Decided on third person view and flat shaded art style for simplicity.
- Spent a lot of time trying to understand Blender. Finally managed to import 3D models.
- Tried out both first and third person controls, kept both for later decision.
- Tried out spheric world, but it got too complicated. Continuing with plane for now.
- Changed approach. Abandoned third person view and focused more on core concept.
- Added raycasting, so that player movement is based on mouse movement
- Can't figure out the y-position of player
- Started on player movement
- Sat the entire day trying to figure out why stuff would disappear behind terrain.
- Realized I need to rotate stuff using radians, not degrees. Problem fixed!
- Implemented simplex noise for natural randomness, started working on camera angles
- Added materials, lights and shadows
- Generated plane with random terrain, started researching Perlin/simplex noise
- Set up basic structure, started playing around in three.js