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Programming Particle Effects in my Game Engine

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Devlog video about “Homegrown”, a casual farming game I’m creating using my own engine. This time I’m implementing particle effects into the game!

Support the channel on Patreon and get access to the code for this game, the city-builder, and Equilinox:
https://www.patreon.com/thinmatrix

My previous game “Equilinox”:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/853550/Equilinox/

You can follow the progress of the game on my social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThinMatrix
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinmatrix/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thinmatrix
Trello: https://trello.com/b/W3zkIJTM/farm

Email: thinmatrix@gmail.com

Background music by Jamal Green:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/50jTMgIPZrjKFgHbCvoeRt?si=Z-xfUXEXQCuGdGRy7qf9Ug&dl_branch=1

Outro music by Dannek Studio:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DannekStudio

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34 comments

@ThinMatrix March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Sorry it's been a while since the last upload! I was on holiday at the start of October and then had an annoying cold for a week or so, so progress was a little slower than usual last month. Back on track now though!
@Sininehobune March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
why isn't this person using an existing 3D engine?
@AtGigis March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Your life seems so peaceful. Your garden in real life is beautiful by the way!
@skyyra3456 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
I know this is an older video but a suggestion on the leaf particles. Maybe add some leaf color metadata to each of the plant objects. Then parameterize a tint value in the particle effect that reads the leaf metadata to apply the proper color. I've done this in the past and it's great to have it data driven.
@artymer5021 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Hi there, I was thinking today about what it's like creating your own game engine and I have a few questions regarding it. Do you do everything from scratch in your projects or do you use libraries or packages (whatever they're called in Java) to make your life a bit easier in that regard? If so, what packages/libraries do you use?
@bunpasi March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
What a phenomenal video!
@larryd9577 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
The particle system makes it very lively. Amazing progress so far!
One question: how did you handled the component deserialization?
@kipporah March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
I like that your farming game is a point and click game
@robsdroid6856 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Can you do a video on the day in the life of Rufus? I'm serious, I'd watch the heck out of that.
@DJSAYBR March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Your digging pebbles from the effect should stick around like 10 times longer so they fade over like 30 seconds
@GabrielAguiarProd March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Nice touch with the particle effects, they really add an extra layer of vividity to your game. Awesome content as always 👍
@andreyk1576 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Banana pancakes sounds yummy :) I watch your videos when I need inspiration.
Have you ever considered switching to any other language? Something more interactive than Java and less verbose. Something like Clojure. Given a REPL, you aren't gonna need to craft any special tool for tweaking code at run-time.
@TwoTeaTee March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Major quality of life feature.
@TwoTeaTee March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
It's a privilege to learn few design principles along the vlog.
@ffdetonados March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
I love the dust hiding the floor and also the mesh update; also, just make every vfx 3D, they look like they are part of the world, and it's so nice watching them react to the environment...
@igorsijak5279 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
You probably get asked this a lot, so sorry in advance, but how did you teach yourself game development? I know you said you've studied computer science and that you taught yourself opengl. But asuming that one person has only basic knowledge of programming (knows the basics of a certain programming language), what advice would you give to that person to teach themselves about game development and making a game engine like you make for your own games.

I'm a 4th year mechanical engineering student who enjoys games and finds your devlogs very relaxing so any advice on this topic would be great as I would like something like this to be my hoby on a much smaller scale. Just to gain the ability to make a simple level, import some audio files and 3D models in it and to have it work would make me overwhelmed with joy.
@melihmete807 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Can you also make a video about your camera system? It looks so smooth!
@viniciusmazon311 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
You could add wether. Rain and disasters with a probability to happen
@xrify9407 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Are you ever going to recreate the LWJGL tutorial with version 3?
@redditor17 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
I really enjoy how you structured the particle class with component objects. Blowing my mind a little I can't wait to try out that style of OOP :)
@clonkex March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
The weeding particle effect should have weeds instead of dirt clods. Ideally you don't actually want to remove too much of the soil when weeding so it would make more sense to show grasses and weeds being thrown around.
@ashleyedwards9523 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
All of your videos bring me os much peace! Another great update, the 3D particles are looking really cool! Can't wait to see what's to come
@KennyGJE March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Hi ThinMatrix! Have you ever made a dedicated video on how you manage your time/tasks? I find your channel super inspiring and would love to know more about your process.
@abbyslab March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Something feels off to me with the colours in the game. Maybe the extent of desaturation.
@gronkhfp March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
How are you able to programm such cool games in a pure garbage IDE like eclipse? 😅 I have to use it whole working and I'm becoming insane, because this IDE has so much problems with cashes that don't get refreshed properly or the whole IDE freezes
@MrVook March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
I'm sure it has been mentioned, but i LOVE the fact that this game is called "Homegrown" - its about growing plants at home, in an engine that was "homegrown". You're a genius, awesome video
@madcio March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
I think you need ability to pass custom parameters to particle system, like color of leaves. In this way you won't need separate system that is identical except color.
@monochroma3803 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
i gotta say i really like how particle effects look now! very satisfying to watch... Good luck on your further development! 🔥
@donovan6320 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
The 2D particles it looks like you were writing to the depth buffer. Which was probably causing your transparency issue... If I had to guess at a glance.
@NossdaTV March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Designer brain going here but: I think it would be a good idea to add in another reason other than aesthetic to have different patches of the crop instead of just making use of all space.

You could:

- Make it a rule where that's jut not possible

- Make it so that there is an increased chance of cross-contamination (either from certain crops being plagued and then giving that to others, or just contamination in general based on the combination of crops) depending on how close crops are to each other

- Make it so that walkways are necessary regarding the speed of harvest (so making it so you are less of a god and more like you have to physically move a person to the crop.
@nBodyResearch March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
when's the marijuana update? lol
@ringo2715 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
I fucking love these particle effects
@mryeezy9162 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
Man, Rufus is a cool guy. Loved when he had a leaf on his face. 10/10 video.
@Ell900 March 27, 2024 - 1:44 pm
I love you

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