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The Random Programming Room
« on: February 02, 2011, 05:04:34 PM »
I was inspired to make this by TIGSource's happy programmer room (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=4103.0). This is the place for sharing any random programming stories that don't deserve their own thread. All languages are welcome!

I'll start. I am a happy programmer because I just implemented reflective water in my software voxel renderer!!!




Yeah it doesn't look particularly impressive yet and there are obvious bugs, but there's a ton of stuff going on under the hood.
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2011, 05:10:26 PM »
hat's really amazing stuff there. How do you draw landscapes?
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2011, 05:14:51 PM »
It's an old school voxel terrain renderer, which means that I raycast into a heightmap and draw columns of voxels according to the heights on the map.

When a ray hits a height that is below the water level, I first draw the terrain as usual, then cast a reflection ray from that point to get the reflected voxels. Then I do perform some bit-shifting on the reflected voxel to make it the right color and transparent.
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2011, 05:46:16 PM »
Oh sorry, what I meant was, how do you create hight maps?
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2011, 06:15:44 PM »
Oh, I just found this one online to test with.
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2011, 06:29:15 PM »
That's awesome. I'm a happy programmer cause I've had 3 snow days in a row and have spent them on a physics engine thingy.
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2011, 07:02:39 PM »
Haha, I've had two snow days in a row and I've used them to work on this thing.

We've been very lucky with snow this year!
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2011, 09:59:09 PM »
I had a snow day the past two days and accomplished nothing!!!!  But in the days before that I did make some progress on a game in SC.
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2011, 10:42:46 PM »
Is there a sad programmers room?
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2011, 09:14:49 AM »
I'm now officially up to 3 SNoW DAYS IN A ROW!
(Which is really unusual for Albuquerque)
It is really friggin cold. :3

Waitaminute x why did you say that? 3:
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #10 on: February 03, 2011, 06:15:24 PM »
It actually has nothing too do with programming, its the fact I can't make pixel art, or draw anything at all. I've been working on this cool game engine, and I'm getting sick of looking at stick men, lol.
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #11 on: February 03, 2011, 08:56:25 PM »
Please elaborate.
And feel free to note that I have way too much spare time and I really like making sprites.
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Re: The Happy Programmer Room
« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2011, 10:44:45 PM »
Well TIGSource has a grumpy programmer room as well... but let's just use this thread as both.

I am a happy programmer because I just implemented procedural texturing and filtering!

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« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2011, 11:37:26 PM »
I'm happy because I have the perfect relatively easy game to work on (Light Maze) I get to play with Matt's Box2D physics thingy and we're up to the 4th snow day in a row! (apparently the whole snow thing is a long story, involving a gas shortage and bad road conditions. ??? Pretty interesting week for me.)
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Re: The Random Programming Room
« Reply #14 on: February 04, 2011, 01:29:16 PM »
those screens look good, can move around in that enviroment?
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