Pretty! There's a lot of little details I appreciated, like the little boats and piers, as well as the fact that the birds would move to avoid you if you tried to collide with them.
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#12A couple of years ago I produced this as a study into procedural heightmaps, shadow mapping and online geometry loading with Three.js. I had big plans for it but abandoned it half way. I found it on my hard-drive the other day and thought it might be worth putting up in the case that it's of any use to anyone! The project is full of performance issues and other weird things but hey I hope it's worth something! Enjoy.…
Nice pastoral-feeling work. In the readme you feature "Shore detection algorithms for boathouse placement". Does the algorithm have a name, or did you create it from scratch? I'd be curious to learn how it works.
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#13Sim is short for simulation. Generally you strip down some elements, but keep some true to reality. Steerable hot air balloon moving seemingly on its own is not that. So this is more of an arcade.
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#15Press space to see the world from another side.
Use the left and right to 'steer'.
Also checkout his Short Trip which was posted here some time ago: http://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip
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#16Pretty! There's a lot of little details I appreciated, like the little boats and piers, as well as the fact that the birds would move to avoid you if you tried to collide with them.
Thank you! I really wanted to add a bunch of other objects to decorate the landscape but it was a massive pain to get new models in. Glad you like what's there :)
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#17Perhaps not as technically impressive, but this [0] other short game/experience from the same creator is extraordinarily charming and well produced!
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#18Press space to see the world from another side. Use the left and right to 'steer'. Also checkout his Short Trip which was posted here some time ago: http://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip
How was short trip made? That's super dope
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#19Pretty! There's a lot of little details I appreciated, like the little boats and piers, as well as the fact that the birds would move to avoid you if you tried to collide with them.
Thank you! I really wanted to add a bunch of other objects to decorate the landscape but it was a massive pain to get new models in. Glad you like what's there :)
Honestly, I'm not sure that's a loss; there's something very pleasing about the minimal aesthetic.
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#20A couple of years ago I produced this as a study into procedural heightmaps, shadow mapping and online geometry loading with Three.js. I had big plans for it but abandoned it half way. I found it on my hard-drive the other day and thought it might be worth putting up in the case that it's of any use to anyone! The project is full of performance issues and other weird things but hey I hope it's worth something! Enjoy.…
Nice pastoral-feeling work. In the readme you feature "Shore detection algorithms for boathouse placement". Does the algorithm have a name, or did you create it from scratch? I'd be curious to learn how it works.
Thanks! I actually can't remember exactly how it worked, but I think it was a pretty simple process of selecting points at the level of the water combined with some sort of normal calculation. Just used it for placing the boathouses in semi-logical locations.
I should probably take it out of the readme just in case someone gets all excited and then disappointed when they realise it's all smoke and mirrors and nonsense. Ha!