FolsomDam is finally a dam

Started some years ago, but finally got the time to work more on it. Check:



for how you can flood the other side of FolsomDam! (sorry for the water not having a texture but red/green squares, helps with developing and think nice looking effects can come last)

That is so jizz inducingly cool!
I'm now your fan

woah

Would there be a way to update the water on the mini map in realtime? The dam getting terraformed appears on the minimap but not the water spreading over dry land

We can make a pot-shaped map that slowly fills with damaging water as the match progresses, a true lobsterpot!

y'all won't be so enthusiastic when this thingy drops already poor performance in clusterfucks from astonishing 2 fps to 0.5 :D
one can just hope it's all on GPU with little to no CPU interaction...

If water has synced consequences(and I believe it does) - i.e. deals damage(liquid lava/acid on some maps), becomes non passable depending on depth this will need to go to SYNC code
which may raise whole new layers of issues starting from performance down to desyncs...

This stuff looks super-duper amazing tho!

FYI this is a prototype , it needs quite some development effort until it will be playable. I estimate this could happen in 2021 (but depends on too many factors, so probably even later), and the new engine with OpenGL 4.x might be required.

This is an engine thing that should be applicable to any map. One issue I do not know/thought is underwater ground texturing.

Multiple cool effect could be possible (sinks, sources, displacements, etc.).

Regarding performance, currently I think rendering is the most time consuming and that should be solved with tesselation from OpenGL 4.x (new engine). Water flow adjustments probably could be done in a separate thread and updated only occasionally (bonus ZK will use more threads), but I will not look at optimizations until I feel I know the answer to more complex problems (testing all unit types, pathing, buildings, weapons).

As a bonus, here is a video with units that are now swept away by the flowing water:



PS: thanks for all the enthusiasm, helps to know people like this!

What I was thinking of: you have a terrain, gets flooded, water goes away (lets ignore how), it would be nice if the terrain would not look the same as before.

Don't worry though, will not try to address any esthetic aspect until I fix all functional and performance problems, but still good to have a list of ideas/issues.

quote: Flooded lands should provide bonuses to growing barley and date palms

...till zero-k is an agricultural simulator

In the context of ZK i was more thinking of situations like

Evil Kingstad rushes ships against you on Thornford, using the shallow channels to raid your land-based armies

You dig a hole in the shallow channel

The water flows into the hole

The channels are dry

The ships are beached

You converge in bloodthirst

Vengeance is near

quote: What I was thinking of: you have a terrain, gets flooded, water goes away (lets ignore how), it would be nice if the terrain would not look the same as before.

That way lies realtime simulation of erosion and deposition. I've seen some cool videos about that (including some guy who's making a game out of it; can't find that atm).

Are you sure you want to go there? I know you want to.