I've written a blog post about my recent WebGPU particle life simulation adventures! It presents the formulas used for the model & explains how it works under the hood: Below is a gallery of random systems I've found (links to them are in the article) 👇.

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A friend of mine asked whether you can build star-shaped houses in my game, and while it's rather impractical (low usable-space-to-wall-length ratio), you certainly can do that, and even the roofs will adjust to the shape!. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

When prototyping buildings on a triangular grid 1.5 years ago, I fiddled a lot with stairs but never managed to make them work (no 90° angles!). Yesterday I realized that at least spiral staircases should work perfectly. Would be hilarious to have spiral but not straight ones 😅

And here's the boss

Trying out the new hay roof with different wall/beam support configurations. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Roof building is finally fully implemented! The UI tool creates build tasks, and the villagers happily execute them. Now adding more roof types is just a matter of designing *coughs* 55 mesh tiles for each roof type 😅. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Prototyping a new roof building tool. Previously I'd auto-generate a roof for the whole building, but I decided to give the player more control over how it is generated. There are still some edge cases to fix, but it already works pretty nice!. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

Yay, I figured it out, the roof tiles are now being generated correctly! Now I need to make the actual roof building tool the player will use. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

First tests in roof mesh generation. Made a temporary tool to manually create roofs at certain points/elevations. Something is clearly a bit off :). #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Auto-generated a table mapping arbitrary tile configurations to 55 base ones + the rotation/reflection mapping the base tile to that tile. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Made all 55 thatched roof tiles. Now I need to implement the algorithm that will combine these into actual roofs in-game 🥶. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Working on thatched roof tiles. 33 done, 22 more to go. It's easier than it looks like once you figure out the rules tbh. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Guess I'll have to scrap that and return to the idea of larger hex tiles. There are 55 tile versions depending on neighbouring roof state (higher/lower/no roof), which is a ton of meshes to make but it seems to be the best option I have.

Think I'm ready to tackle roofs. In December I managed to distill it to 12 rhombic tiles, but I still need to procedurally merge them (for smooth normals) and it still doesn't work for other roof types (clay, wood shingles, etc).

RT @Nekrolm: Ну что, дождались. Кому единорожков по скидке?

RT @lisyarus: Adding a feature requested by someone on yt comments - getting sticks from trees without committing mass deforestation 😅 As u….

Adding a feature requested by someone on yt comments - getting sticks from trees without committing mass deforestation 😅 As usual, a simple agent & tree animation + sound effect make it feel so nice. The sticks replenish with time, of course!. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Or even fancier: taking boundary is the adjoint of exterior derivative

I'll do you one better

Added a camera view target indicator, should hopefully make it a bit easier for the player to get used to camera controls. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames