Starting to finish the “Bowling ball and pins” section of the Blender 3D modelling course. Looking forward to learning more actual modelling and not just testing out different rendering settings. In the series I also learned about how to use the physics engine in Blender to create simple animations. By setting the ground plane to Read More …
Still following the Blender tutorials from GameDev.tv on Udemy. Doing some progress on working with smooth and curved surfaces as well as textures.
The second model was a bit easier. I should learn to keep things simple for these type of projects
I finally managed to turn one of my earlier experiments with drawing in isometric perspective using Adobe Illustrator into a proper 3D model, only to render it to an isometric illustration again. I also tried rendering it using a perspective camera with a short focal length.
Today I found out how to render an Isometric scene in blender. Still working on the basics of 3D-modelling. E to extrude, S to scale and all that. After I had a model I could work with, I selected the camera and in “Object Data Properties” I changed the “Lens” type to Orthographic. Then I Read More …
It flickers a lot, but I’d rather implement resource loading as a separate task. Click on the image below for a demonstration.
Today I was looking through OpenGameArt for readymade character sprites to use in the Isogame project and found that the spritesheets were all compilations of multiple sprites instead of discrete files. For a prototype I find that using separate files is easier in the first iteration, but extracting by hand is too tedious so I Read More …
After doing some experiments using different grids in Affinity Designer I found that the 2:1 Triangular grid format is the best for this particular 2D to Isometric coordinate function (the one I found here). I’ve also managed to break up the canvas into layers, fix rendering issues by waiting for the sprites to load in Read More …
I finally got around to moving the online isometric “game engine” project to its own git repo here: https://github.com/tcarisland/isogame As usual, the app is deployed to: https://tcarisland.no/isogame/ I also thought it was a good idea to do a screen recording on how it’s worked and how it works now.
Managed to create some very basic sprite support for the Isogame-project. Currently it only draws a basic grass tile, but since everything is rerendered every time the active tile moves the next step is creating support for multiple layers. Try it here: www.tcarisland.com/isogame