Tuesday 11 June 2013

Approaching Phase 2

Oh my, yet another year.  Not big on progress news are we.  Well, I have not been idle (except where blogging is concerned), and a lot has happened.  Let's start with a screenshot:



This is the current state of my experimental procedural modelling system, called 'Apparance'.  Here you can see a number of significant improvements over my initial prototype.  I have visual editing of the procedures, fairly advanced property editing panel, and a bigger list of operators to build with.  This represents the final stage of what I have come to call 'Phase 1'.  This is where I prove the first key element of my project; that of visual editing to drive procedural modelling.  I also wanted to take it to the point that it could stand up as a 'minimal viable product' that someone could play with without any need for tricks, manual hackery and workarounds.  I am considering releasing the binaries for people to play with to get some feedback and test the water a bit.  I've collected a few more pictures from its development history over the last year in an Apparance development gallery.
No promises when, but next time I'll talk about Phase 2...

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  1. Anonymous19 January 2014 at 08:54

    Very nice Sam. So when are you going to get the Spiral in there? Incidentally, it looks a bit like that in-game scripting tool that Elixir developed. I think farbrausch have something similar that they use for demo creations. Cool stuff.

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  2. Sam Swain21 January 2014 at 22:50

    There you go: :)
    https://plus.google.com/photos?pid=5971480272331031506&oid=101847136544348139473
    Barely any lighting model in my (real-time) engine, no surface properties either. Rendering is only a secondary goal to the procedural modelling.
    The AI editor at Elixir shares the procedural/hierarchical and data-flow nature of Apparance. The Farbrausch tool Werkzeug is stack based rather than true data-flow and focused on runtime editing rather than runtime generation so has slightly different strengths and weaknesses, but yet, a big inspiration. Apparance is greatly influenced by my time at Elixir and working with Totality and is an idea I've been thinking about since then. :)

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