This thing is killing my CPU, what's the actual bottleneck here for CSS? Is it the number of elements visible and rendered at once? Is it the calculation engine backing CSS is super slow? Or just that most of the work is being done on the CPU it seems (on my machine, rotating around the map, my integrated GPU goes to 20% but CPU stays around 40-50%).
Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator
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#32Nice! Now do collision checks ;)
In CSS?
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#33Really cool, especially when I realised you could rotate the terrain and do some zooming as well.
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#34Can someone please reimplement something like Warcraft 2 on a mobile web device? It would be a hit, I’m telling you. Even from 1995. Some people are still playing it 30 years later, obsessively. And myth ii by Bungie is a classic too
The controls would take some serious reworking to make it work on mobile - I could see adding a ‘pause’ feature to give you time to scrub your fingers all over the screen to issue all your unit and build orders, performant pinch to zoom would nearly negate the need for a mini map, lots of reworked GUI for building stuff and managing workers
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#35Lots of javascript for a "css-only" tool. Looks like just the rendering is css-only.
Yep. Can confirm this does not work with JS disabled. I'm disappointed by the misleading title.
is it a Generator for CSS-Only Terrain?
or a CSS-Only Generator which creates Terrain?
We need PEMDAS for English.
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#36This is super cool! Wonder how hard it would be to use with an RTS game.
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#37Wow this really feels like roller coaster tycoon!!! (I can see lots of people refer to this to their favorite sim game though) Great work!
For me, "Briefing" from Ace Combat 2 played back in my head straight away.
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#38I've used a few terrain generators before but I think this one might be my favourite. Obviously the fact its a "CSS only" demo project restricts things a bit, but its got enough going for it regardless.
It actually comes at a really good time for me, I'm currently trying to make the transition from 2d game dev to 3d and things like this are really helpful.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. Can confirm this does not work with JS disabled. I'm disappointed by the misleading title.
is it a Generator for CSS-Only Terrain? or a CSS-Only Generator which creates Terrain? We need PEMDAS for English.
Let's use sexpr?
actual meaning -> ((CSS-Only Terrain) Generator)
incorrect interpretation -> (CSS-Only (Terrain Generator))
Re: Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator
#40Lots of javascript for a "css-only" tool. Looks like just the rendering is css-only.
You can open up your terrain in codepen with nothing but CSS/HTML, and it renders fine. It's just not interactive / draggable anymore.
So the JS is only being used, essentially, as a nice UI for configuring your terrain and the camera angle from which it's viewed.
This is still an incredible feat.