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Show HN: Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer
A liminal brush-based CSG editor and game engine with unified (forward) renderer
inspired by Radiant and Worldcraft/Hammer
Compact and lightweight (target: Snapdragon 8CX, OpenGL 3.3)
Real-time lighting with stencil shadows without the need for pre-baked compilation
- tines 7mo agoLooks awesome. Anything been made with this?
- vicioussquid 7mo agoOther than the 14 examples included, not yet; this is brand new and I am reaching out to the community to create some stuff with it, extend it with angled brushes, new entity types, etc Thanks so much for your interest.
- vicioussquid 6mo agoNow that I have built this tool I'm going to use it to create a game
- voidfunc 7mo agoUgh this makes me nostalgic for the days of Q3-era game map making and custom servers. I used to get lost in the various games Radiant variants as a teen building DM and CTF maps for my clans server.
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- HauntingPin 7mo agoDid you end up going into game dev or just generally software development? I'm always jealous of the people who grew up making maps or game mods, I wish I'd been more motivated when I was younger to do stuff like that.
- voidfunc 6mo agoSoftware dev. Game dev never really appealed to me. I kind of have an artsy streak inside of me and map making always felt like additive sculpture which is probably why it appealed.
- LarsDu88 7mo agoDoes this use BSPs for draw optimization?
- xyzsparetimexyz 7mo agoNobody uses BSPs for draw optimization. We have culling and depth buffer techniques for that now
- eska 6mo agoThis doesn’t make sense. BSP is a form of culling.
- vicioussquid 6mo agoNope, all done real-time using Frustum culling. `Baking` of lightmaps is supported but not currently necessary
- samiv 7mo agoGood luck to you. Having worked in this space for around 10 years I can say it's nearly impossible to arouse anyone's interest since the market is so totally saturated. For a new engine to take on it needs do something else nobody else is doing so that it's got that elusive USP. Getting visibility, SEO hacking etc is more important than the product itself.
- vicioussquid 6mo agoMy USP is specifically targeting Snapdragon 8CX (a mobile CPU) and OpenGL 3.3 with Adreno graphics