fun fact: in order to draw the cursor as translucent i had to use the stencil buffer, because the boxes that make up the "lines" overlap at the corners, so without the stencil buffer it'd be more opaque at the corners

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testing customizable thickness/opacity for the 3d cursor. think being able to set this to whatever you want will be nice for accessibility

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oooohhhh what if i made it jiggly??

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added an outline to the 3d cursor so it's always visible

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i can now overlay a block breaking decal on blocks, and it works on blocks with shell texturing and even nominally on objects like ferns and flowers

i draw the block's faces again using the stencil buffer, then draw the breaking decal with depth read/write off, masking using the stencil buffer

the way it works for ferns/flowers is i just draw all faces of the breaking pattern block, and any pixels outside the object model are masked

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major milestone in block game development: the first actual gameplay! you can go around and hold the left mouse button on blocks in order to break em :D

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just discovered that the shell textures on leaf blocks do a really cute thing when they surround another block :3

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changed the way block breaking work. 3d cursor now changes to encompass the whole block and the breaking decal is shown on all faces

i'll probably change the cursor to full block vs face (or no cursor at all) depending on what your currently held item is later but for now this works

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not 100% sure what to do about hidden corners. should they show through other geometry with xray vision or just not be drawn?

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time to turn in for the night but i managed to get some item icon rendering going

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current status: agonizing about what to do for font rendering. do i wanna do truetype fonts, or use pixel art fonts

does my old truetype font implementation even still work at all?

edit: nope my truetype implementation is gone so if i wanna go with something i already have i guess it's pixel fonts

edit2: ok i can feel the life draining out of me just researching font systems so for now i'll just go with what i have and works: pixel fonts

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