Category: game development

Cogwheel Chronicles uses a typical 2D height map field to store and regenerate its terrain geometry. This doesn’t allow such features as caves and crags, so more ‘fakery’ has now been employed with the terrain shaders. The shaders used specifically for terrain can now also be used for additional model geometry, using the appropriate world…

Channel packing is extremely common in game engines these days, however was not available to Cogwheel Chronicles until now. I’ve adopted the ‘MRA/RGB’ pattern, in that the PBR metalness texture is stored in the Red channel of the ‘packed gloss’ texture, roughness/gloss goes into the green channel and baked AO into the blue channel. Three…

So have been working on allowing video intros to work on launching the game – this dragon revolve is not the finished version, just a rough cut to test the game engine updates.

I’ve been working on polishing some of the surrounding assets required for the standalone, game control below and obligatory screen shot

Masses amount of progress has been made with Cogwheel over the last few months, some of the engine changes to support the game are illustrated below by associated new lua commands: SetSkyOptions(mode,skytime,rotateandlight)–mode = 0/no change, 1/off, 2/sky as local time, 3/sky as skytime(input)–skytime = decimal hours (e.g. 14.5 is 2.30pm), only used when mode =…