Since i am traveling and dont have a proper external monitor im not going to work on gnar world, and since I am living with a bunch of hackers my gamedev updates have only been that of seeing what i can vibe code late at night.
Normally i need complete concentration to work on my game and living with other people who are playing music and on discord calls all the time is not conducive to concentration.
Vibe coding is cool because you can do it while being heavily distracted.
That being said, here is what i am working on right now.
You remember that skate game i made? well i decided to re-make it from scratch.
So first instead of actually making game mechanics i spent probably the first day just getting a Day/Night cycle in the game.
The sun comes up, the background changes, the sun goes down, the moon comes up, and the stars come out, and there are constellations.
I spent all day yesterday creating the player character and creating a hierarchical limb structure. i was impressed you can do this with threejs.
Right now the game a really cool screen saver.
When i got it to apply pngs to the meshes it started to get fun. that might be what end up doing with this, just making a static world that you can go look at stuff in.
theres gravity and a collision system with the ground but you cant move the guy around yet. i have to be careful when i start this part. the players relation to the skateboard. they are separate but parented in a way.
I have to make visual references inside the world so that i can communicate to the AI which direction to move things.
One thing that might be part of a Cursor update is that is hows me visualizations of what it thinks the world looks like.
the world is cool though when you zoom out really far.
im not sure how to deal with the camera. right now its a free camera.
its cool how it kinda looks like a satellite when you zoom out.
my biggest win on this project has been animating the player idle state. it looks cool. and its funny how its my face. its fun to move the camera around in this space. i think if anything what i can do is to place a bunch of weird interesting models in the world and animate them.
rigging and animating 3d models is hard and that is why this is fun.
Its crazy how big my project is though. its like 1.3 GB haha. in godot this would be like 50MB max. i dont know what it taking up so much space since its all code. must be a lot of text haha. what could take up so much space? there is no music or high poly models . only basic pngs and tiny texture files.
ill try to upload it to vercel so you guys can see but that might take me a minute to do so ill update this post when i do.
not sure why the textures are not showing up on the dev server
https://christskate.vercel.app/
Strangely good haha.
About the size, if you're just using pure ThreeJS that's it. It has direct problems rendering 3D without auxiliary “shortcuts”, you could use another shortcut like combining ThreeJS with PhaserJS, or BabylonJS
The size is probably the node_modules folder?