First Devlog (version 0.2.5)

Hi, I'm writing my first devlog for this project. I feel like I need to say a bit more than on mastodon so that's what I'll do.

This is a little game where you sail a boat on an infinite ocean to explore an archipelago (there's no archipelago yet just an island), made in Godot 4.
This project started as a wipeout zone mode clone, though I got rid of the spaceship really early when I toyed with sky shaders, then with water shaders, and made a somewhat infinite ocean that reminded me of wind waker. It's far from being done, but it's fun.

On this project I used this water shader :
https://godotshaders.com/shader/stylized-water-shader/
mixed with this water shader :
https://stayathomedev.com/product/water-shader/
mixed with this water shader :
https://godotshaders.com/shader/wind-waker-water-no-textures-needed/

I like the result visually but it's somewhat of a mess. I'll take the time to correct the shader code at some point and release it.

The sky shader is this one : https://godotshaders.com/shader/stylized-sky-with-procedural-sun-and-moon/ which I didn't modify much yet. 

I followed those tutorials : 

- this one for buoyancy :

- this one for the dynamic camera :

- this one for the infinite ocean : 

Overall it's been a really fun learning process. It's not like for my B*ten K*itos combat system battle clone, where I had to code everything from scratch, this time I'm relying on the work of the godot community. I'm learning a lot, and it made me realise how much of a cool community it was! I've been posting on mastodon and twitter, and mastodon especially has been a really welcoming place.  Overall, it's been a lot of fun, I'm hyperfocusing and sharing every day, and I'm learning a lot!

Now onto the next items on my todolist, which is to make a proper concept art for the sailing boat, and a proper model with textures, and to code the switch between sailing and walking. I also need to correct the code for export, I can't export version 0.2.5 (with the island) because of an issue with the height map. I'll correct it. That's all! See you!