Well I’m thinking good of doing some stuff with going to other planets since I played a really nice game called Starlink: Battle for Atlas which was based around a star system, so I have an idea what goes on there. I asked @kwx if I could use his Space Rocks 3D simulations and he said yes, but also said that if I tried it on a low end piece of hardware like the Meowbit, it would certainly crash the game, which meant my ideas for using the shadows extension but the dust. Unless we make a separate game for each piece of hardware, it’ll be very hard to make his game in any way.
Not necessarily. The way I understand it, the shadow/shader extension only causes slowdowns while it’s in use. It may still be possible to have multiple more heavyweight effects in the game overall as long as you don’t try to use them at the same time. I don’t think it would make sense to use the shader extension on top of 3D graphics, you could simply adjust the brightness of rendered polygons directly instead. So you could potentially use 3D graphics in one part of the game, and 2D graphics with the shader extension in other parts.
My concern was that the 3D graphics by themselves already use a lot of resources that may make it difficult to fit other parts of the game. That may be partially fixable by being careful about freeing up unused resources when switching modes, but it still seems challenging.
@LcAtonal and @MopishCobra75, I’m looking for hardware to test games on, and as you know, the biggest game is going to be very hard to run on things like a Meowbit, so I’m asking the rest of the community for help!
What exactly do you mean by “take matters into my own hands”?
I have indefinitely paused development on the game because of school related coding projects, personal projects, and my ever lasting itch to create an extension
I mean, if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, let me know if new people want to help, or if you don’t want to help anymore, and @purna079, you can help.
Really sorry @MopishCobra75, I’m in the exact same spot as @omnisImperium, I have school work and a constant flow of homework that won’t let me get anything done