Feb 19, 2018

Last year in PlanetKit

Summarising nearly a year of changes because I've been slack about updating my blog.

Mar 29, 2017

These weeks in PlanetKit #8: embiggening our horizons

Loading (and unloading) parts of the world on demand, and implementing a hierarchical coordinate system.

Jan 31, 2017

These weeks in PlanetKit #7: changing the world, one block at a time

Dynamically regenerating chunk meshes, and fighting the borrow-checker.

Dec 30, 2016

These weeks in PlanetKit #6: the joy of motion

Moving entities around a geodesic grid.

Dec 19, 2016

These weeks in PlanetKit #5: bits and bobs

Finding structure, preparing for movement, and learning a lot from Yasteroids.

Nov 18, 2016

PlanetKit week 4: filing off some rough edges

Fixing the display of voxels that straddle chunk boundaries, and chipping away at the most obvious overdraw.

Nov 5, 2016

PlanetKit week 3: hexagons!

Turning the surface of the planet into a map of hexagonal voxels.

Oct 25, 2016

PlanetKit week 2: basic terrain

A first attempt at making terrain for PlanetKit using the `noise` crate.

Oct 19, 2016

Introducing PlanetKit

Colorful blobs against the void of an empty z-buffer.