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D2 log 074 – New level format

Catnip Games

The graphics backend rewrite took a while. This gives me freedom in level design and saves work making tiles… tileable. I export the rendered terrain from Blender as a RGBA image but with alpha value set to depth. The custom terrain shader uses the z-channel to draw water in lower areas of the level.

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D20 RPG – Pathfinding

The Liquid Fire

In that project, we had some unique challenges thanks to a non-square board where tiles were optional. In addition we had to consider tile heights – and whether or not a unit could jump as high as needed. In contrast, the pathfinding in this lesson will be for a 2D square board with no missing tiles.

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Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

Auto-tiling in tile maps. Auto-tiling in tile maps. Godot now supports auto-tiling in TileMap, authored by Mariano Suligoy ( MarianoGNU ) and enhanced by Damar Indra. This new implementation is based on Tiled Editor 's Terrains and is fully compatible with previous TileSets. Bullet Physics backend.

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