How you can render your sprites like in Stardew Valley!

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3 ай бұрын

Render your sprites like in stardew valley so sprites appear behind certain objects like trees.
Bibliography:
Painters algorithm:
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Sorting algorithms geeks for geeks:
www.geeksforgeeks.org/sorting...
Sprite textures used:
opengameart.org/content/lpc-c...
opengameart.org/content/lpc-t...

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@NyanCoder 3 ай бұрын

Meh, depth buffer is not necessarily OpenGL/Direct3D/Vulkan/Metal/WebGPU exclusive thing. It's not even that CPU-hard work either. All you need is additional buffer for depth-check and your own sprite_copy function, that would check depth buffer and write to it if pixel is going to be written

@chris_php 3 ай бұрын

Ah I didn't know that thanks!

@NyanCoder 3 ай бұрын

@@chris_php It's just already made solutions in those graphics libraries (in OGL it enables with single line of code even), so because of that some people could feel like it's hardware stuff or library exclusive thing, but in fact a lot of techniques (even raytracing) were made in application-side first (and in case of raytracing there are even specialized commands now to boost compute time in exact this case so modern gpus could keep up in reasonable framerate)

@onebigsnowball 3 ай бұрын

I was just working on something like this. I didn't even think about using a depth buffer... instead I used an approach that will only work for tile based games. It's not very flexible, but very fast for the CPU. I think stardew valley does something similar

@chris_php 3 ай бұрын

Ah nice what solution did you use to solve this problem?

@onebigsnowball 3 ай бұрын

@@chris_phpIn stardew there are like 4 different layers. Some of those layers make tiles appear in front of entities if they're behind it and the other way around. The other layers are the floor and tiles that always appear above or below the entities. My version is a bit different but that's just because it's more specialized for my game's usecase