Tag: Technical

A high-level look at the layered terrain pipeline behind Luminids, and why the order of operations matters as much as the noise itself.

This week the focus was on the actual creation of the Luminids themselves. Model work, rigging, animation tests, and trying to lock down how these creatures look and move in the game. This is the first time Luminids have started to feel like real characters instead of placeholder blobs.

Procedural forests are easy to promise and tricky to deliver. This week I finally cracked it: Luminids now has full scale procedural trees that feel alive, anchored in a voxel world, and powered by our favorite space colonization wizardry.

Every hill, valley, and wisp of mist in Luminids is now crafted by a living world system - one that breathes, shifts, and reveals itself differently every time you explore.

I'm building Luminids because I want a world that feels alive. Just a place that grows, where tiny beings make choices and the world reacts.