Shape Engine

Devlog

• v2.1.0 Release
  September 08, 2024 by Dave Green#small update

  This is a small update for ShapeEngine. I have added 2 new features: Circle Sector shape and Circle Sector Collider (can be useful for detection cones for instance) Outline Percentage Drawing for all... Continue reading

  
• 2.0 Release
  August 29, 2024 by Dave Green

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  Originally this release was planned to be the 1.2 release. I just wanted to add / overhaul a few things and make a release but it grew into something much bigger. I realised a 2.0 release makes much m... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update 11 - Gapped Outline & Scaled Line
  August 08, 2024 by Dave Green#dev update

  I am currently working on the 1.1 release of ShapeEngine. It’s taking longer than expected (as usual) and I wanted to bring out a dev update for the new drawing functions I added. I have added “ga... Continue reading

  
• Shape Engine 1.0 Release
  May 29, 2024 by Dave Green#1.0.0, #v1.0.0, #release

  Initially, I just wanted to overhaul the input and audio system of Shape Engine. This turned into a year long complete rework. I think there is almost no area of Shape Engine that did not get changed... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #10 - UI 2.0
  May 23, 2024 by Dave Green#dev update, #ui

  I completely revamped the UI system in ShapeEngine to be more user-friendly and robust. Drawing inspiration from Godot's Control Node system, I created a similar node called ControlNode in ShapeEngine... Continue reading

  
• Dev News - Word Emphasis 2.0
  May 17, 2024 by Dave Green#dev news, #emphasis

  I revamped the word emphasis system to make it more user-friendly. Now it uses Regex to determine which words in a text should be emphasized. Additionally, multiline text can detect the mouse and high... Continue reading

  
• Dev News - Helldivers vs Asteroids
  May 01, 2024 by Dave Green#dev news, #helldivers, #stratagem

  I made an example scene to showcase how a simple Helldivers Stratagem system could be implemented. It is a lot of fun to call in strikes on asteroids and see them fracture into little pieces 🙂 (The... Continue reading

  
• Dev News - Shape Projection
  April 17, 2024 by Dave Green#dev news

  I have implemented functions to project all of ShapeEngine´s supported shapes along a vector, which is helpful for collision detection involving fast or small objects. To improve simplicity and effic... Continue reading

  
• Dev News - Pathfinding 3
  April 03, 2024 by Dave Green#dev news, #pathfinding

  This is just a small showcase of changing the pathfinding grid dynamically. It does not have to be static; you can change any cells anytime. In this example, the ship "drills" through asteroids and th... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #9 - Pathfinding 2
  March 20, 2024 by Dave Green#dev update, #pathfinding

  Here is another example of how the pathfinding in Shape Engine works. Cells can have any weight, red is blocked, green is more favorable, and orange is less favorable. The most optimal path is found f... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #8 - Pathfinding
  March 07, 2024 by Dave Green#dev update

  I was silent for a few months but kept working on Shape Engine. I just had nothing to show and wanted to keep moving. Now I finally have something worth showing :) I implemented a simple pathfinding s... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #7 - Input
  October 21, 2023 by Dave Green#dev update

  Summary I have worked on some more input improvements. The previous iteration was a good start but it was a little bit to overloaded and complex. I focused on abstracting input devices so that as a de... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #6 - Screen Shaders & Camera
  October 07, 2023 by Dave Green#dev update, #camera, #screen shader

  Great news! The screen shaders and camera system are now fully functional. I've made some simplifications to both systems, focusing only on the essential features. The camera can now track a target, s... Continue reading

  
• Dev News - Delaunay Triangulation
  September 16, 2023 by Dave Green#dev news

  While working on some cleanup and refactoring regarding the camera & shape systems, I made another simple example scene featuring my Delaunay Triangulation Algorithm implementation. Instead of triangu... Continue reading

  
• Dev News - Camera System Teaser
  September 10, 2023 by Dave Green#dev news

  Why turn your ship when you can rotate space itself? :) I am currently working on the camera system of Shape Engine and testing all the new features. Most of it is already working and as soon as I hav... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #5 - Poly Merge/ Cut/ Fracture
  September 02, 2023 by Dave Green#dev update

  For The last few weeks, I have been busy working on many small and tedious things all around the engine, so I never had anything to showcase… So for this week, I chose to work on polygon fracturing... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #4 - Area Collision System
  August 05, 2023 by Dave Green#devupdate

  For the last two weeks, I was working on fixing the remaining bugs and improving the performance of my new collision system. It is finally in a state where it is almost done and it is working great. I... Continue reading

  
• Dev News - Continuous Collision Detection
  July 26, 2023 by Dave Green#dev news

  The continuous collision detection is working! It is only needed for colliders that a very fast, very small, or both. The system is only working with circle shapes and all other closed shapes are auto... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #3 - Polyline Collider
  July 22, 2023 by Dave Green#dev update

  I have finished the polyline collider collision system. Implementing the one-way collision system was a little bit trickier than expected but now shapes can pass through segments/polylines in one dire... Continue reading

  
• Dev News - Polygone Fracture
  July 19, 2023 by Dave Green#news

  I implemented a triangulation algorithm for polygons (ear clipper + random ear clipper) and added some other useful features to help with polygon fracturing... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #2 - Polyline Collision
  July 15, 2023 by Dave Green#dev update

  I am currently testing the new polyline collider shape and implementing the new one-way collision system for segments and polylines. The new one-way collisions are only available for segments and poly... Continue reading

  
• Dev News - Polyline Inflation
  July 12, 2023 by Dave Green#news

  I implemented the clipper2 lib into ShapeEngine to add more awesome functionality to the polygon system, like growing/shrinking or inflating polylines to polygons!... Continue reading

  
• Roadmap v1.0
  July 08, 2023 by Dave Green#shapeengine, #news, #roadmap

  Roadmap This is just a very basic outline of the tasks I have to do until the 1.0 release of Shape Engine. There are a lot of smaller and/or unforeseen things in between those steps, but it should giv... Continue reading

  
• Dev Update #1 - Text & Font
  July 08, 2023 by Dave Green#devupdate, #shapeengine

  I overhauled the text & font system of Shape Engine and added some new interesting features. You can color single words in a text and use word wrap for multiline text to make displaying a lot of text... Continue reading