I needed a good art pipeline for my RTS-from-scratch project and after some deliberation I came to the conclusion that I should forgo any preprocessing steps and should just load Aseprite files directly. All the information I need, mainly animation data, but also things like layering and Z-order information was already right there.

However, there was no Aseprite decoder for C at that moment so I decided to write one myself.

After 4 days of coding and 1 day of rest it is now production ready: https://github.com/API-Beast/ase_read

• It is fast, in my testing small ase files can be read and blitted in <1ms, while larger ones take <10ms.
• It is small, one header, one implementation, ~2000 LOC.
• It extracts all the meta data you care about: animation tags, slices and user data.
• ase_draw_frame implements all 18 blend modes available in Aseprite for complex layer setups.

Comptime C functions

Oh right, I forgot you can post here without making a project tag.

Current progress on my game. Spent some time to figure out how to "fit" hexagonal meshes into a height map, to properly present slopes and such.

After two days I figured out that it is simply a 1:1 taper:

vec2 hexTileVertexToUVCoords(vec2 xy)
{
    vec2 uv = xy;
    uv.x += uv.x * abs(uv.y);
    uv.x = 0.5 + uv.x/2.0;
    return uv;
}

Next step is replacing the procedural hex mesh with actual different hex tiles. E.g. adding art.

&perspective-drawing Oh god, position becomes rotation in curvilinear. Also, implemented rudimentary curvilinear edge drawing.

&perspective-drawing Added the construction lines for subdivison because it's usually important to know where the center of the cube is.

&perspective-drawing Added a "Analysis" window that compensates for position, distance and tilt so you can analyse how each parameter effects the cube more accurately. (Sorry, it doesn't actually do the analysis for you. (Yet?))

&perspective-drawing Opted for simple, functional, auto-generated UI and added various guidelines. Think this will be all, jamming wise.

&perspective-drawing
Damn, I didn't know 1 Point Perspective could do this.

&perspective-drawing
Joining the Jam very late but wanted to make a little something to help me learn perspective drawing. Now I have working construction (and parallel) lines, next will be adding UI to tweak all the parameters on the fly.

!til Apparently humans with normal color vision can have vastly different ratios of Green vs Red cones, which should imply that different people perceive Red in different intensities(?)

An old project: ~20x zoom in on coast line using signed distance field textures