In this devlog I modeled a low poly palm tree (during my first livestream!), and then I implemented procedural tree generation so that I don’t need to manually place every single tree.
At first I thought this would be quite difficult, and at one point I even considered abandoning procedural generation altogether, but once I got out of my head and actually started writing code it turned out to be fairly straightforward.
Then I made the ocean infinite. In reality, the water plane just moves with the camera now, but that makes the water appear to be endless. I also improved the camera’s submersion detection by removing its reliance on an approximation, so the water fog actually gets enabled and disabled properly now.
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