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Show HN: Fio: 3D World editor/game engine – inspired by Radiant and Hammer github.com

A liminal brush-based CSG editor and game engine with unified (forward) renderer inspired by Radiant and Worldcraft/Hammer

Compact and lightweight (target: Snapdragon 8CX, OpenGL 3.3)

Real-time lighting with stencil shadows without the need for pre-baked compilation


voidfunc3 days ago

Ugh this makes me nostalgic for the days of Q3-era game map making and custom servers. I used to get lost in the various games Radiant variants as a teen building DM and CTF maps for my clans server.

HauntingPin2 days ago

Did you end up going into game dev or just generally software development? I'm always jealous of the people who grew up making maps or game mods, I wish I'd been more motivated when I was younger to do stuff like that.

voidfunc2 days ago

Software dev. Game dev never really appealed to me. I kind of have an artsy streak inside of me and map making always felt like additive sculpture which is probably why it appealed.

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samiv2 days ago

Good luck to you. Having worked in this space for around 10 years I can say it's nearly impossible to arouse anyone's interest since the market is so totally saturated.

For a new engine to take on it needs do something else nobody else is doing so that it's got that elusive USP.

Getting visibility, SEO hacking etc is more important than the product itself.

vicioussquidopa day ago

My USP is specifically targeting Snapdragon 8CX (a mobile CPU) and OpenGL 3.3 with Adreno graphics

LarsDu883 days ago

Does this use BSPs for draw optimization?

xyzsparetimexyz2 days ago

Nobody uses BSPs for draw optimization. We have culling and depth buffer techniques for that now

eska2 days ago

This doesn’t make sense. BSP is a form of culling.

vicioussquidop2 days ago

Nope, all done real-time using Frustum culling.

`Baking` of lightmaps is supported but not currently necessary

tines3 days ago

Looks awesome. Anything been made with this?

vicioussquidop3 days ago

Other than the 14 examples included, not yet; this is brand new and I am reaching out to the community to create some stuff with it, extend it with angled brushes, new entity types, etc

Thanks so much for your interest.

vicioussquidop15 hours ago

Now that I have built this tool I'm going to use it to create a game

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