Time for our asteroids to get physical! In this video we’re going to be moving beyond the simple instanced rendering methods we’ve been using previously and start actually creating real physical asteroids when we get close.

Let’s align our planet shader a bit more with the style of our game. We’re aiming for a low poly style, the fairly common style of indie game devs lately.

Welcome to the World of Zero Arcade, or what is going to become the World of Zero Arcade. This project is going to happen in a number of parts.

We’ve already built an asteroid ring shader to handle rendering the rings of a planet at large distances. What about close distances though?

There are two ways to accomplish a low poly, flat style in 3D graphics. The first is to modify the smoothing on the mesh so that normal’s aren’t smoothed out.

Our next project is going to be something really fun. We’re going to be taking advantage of the new Beam FTL streaming protocol which gets around 0.

Today we’re going to try something a little different! Lets explore building 3D models using the included tools in the Windows 10 Creators Update and see how useful these tools are for our game development needs.

It’s time for some optimization of our quadtree. We’re going to focus on consolidating adjacent nodes that have similar values.

Today we’re going to be designing and implementing an algorithm which can be used to insert data into our quadtree using some sort of conditional logic.

Today we’re going to be making the voxels in our 2d voxel terrain update in real time! This means we’re going to make it so that we can easily insert and delete elements from our tree and also modify things so we’re able to regenerate our mesh when that happens.

Last time we were generating Primitives using the built in Unity feature so that we could easily generate a Quad for every node in our voxel quadtree.

Time to put something in our quadtree. We’re going to build two scripts in this video. The first will be one of potentially many “generators” which insert data into our quadtree.

Last episode we built a quadtree from our previous octree implementation. That was cool but now it’s time for some real fun!

Asteroids VR needs an asteroid belt so we’re going to make one! In this video we’re going to begin work on our basic ring shader which will be used for drawing the planetary ring of asteroids at a long distance.

When we left our planetary ring shader we had a basic shader which could draw a planetary ring. That had a few problems though.

Time to start working on deforming our dynamically generated mesh. We’re going to be working on a physical simulation that deforms the mesh when things hit it.

Time to jump into some of the fun sides of 3D Graphics! In this video we’re going to be figuring out how to build a 3D Plane in Unity with a given number of subsections.

Extending where we left our rope simulation it’s time to dive into the new LineRenderer added to Unity 5.

Unity has a number of different joints and other ways to connect Rigidbodies (Spring’s come to mind). We’re going to be exploring how to take advantage of those offerings in order to build a 3D physically simulated rope that we can attach to our grapple gun and eventually swing around space with.

The last time we explored animating our Fractal Shader we had a problem. Our code was not elegant and was very difficult to keep updated.