Games Raycasting Algorithm Demo - Work In Progress

[wonder]

I almost had a brain meltdown porting this into B4x...

So far it appear to work as expected... Give it a try.

Controls:
[Left-Click] Draw blocks
[Right-Click] Activate raycasting
[Right-Drag] Move light source

Note: Casting from inside a block looks broken, but it's an intentional speed-up.

 

[inakigarm]

3D Tetris ??

 

[wonder]

No, no, not at all... Give it a try and you'll understand!

 

[ilan]

nice, if you want to simulate a grenade explosion then you can use it to see where is a wall and no force will go through it so if a player stand behind that wall he wont get hit by the grenade only who is in the range of the yellow lines.

 

[wonder]

to simulate a grenade explosion

Yes, you can use raycasting for lots of things, but what I'm really after, is lighting effects...

 

[melonZgz]

And if you use Box2D you have the awesome box2DLights, with raycasting, light type, shadows...
(C'mon @wonder , you know that someday you'll try box2d)

 

[ilan]

http://www.iforce2d.net/b2dtut/explosions

 

[wonder]

Maybe one day... but I really like writing and tweaking my own code.
So, if everything goes well, I'll rewrite this algorithm in C++ and I'll implement it in my project.