Sneak peek at "nav3d", my upcoming javascript navmesh generation and querying library.

If you used recast-navigation-js and enjoyed it, but felt sads about the big wasm bundle and wasm quirks (manual memory cleanup, js->wasm call overheads), then watch this space :)

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Nice :) I referenced the below but ended up making my own impl that keeps data structures serialisable (just arrays and gl-matrix) and avoids allocations.

github.com/FedUni/caliko
github.com/lo-th/fullik
editor.p5js.org/rjgilmour/sk...

also enjoyed (for 2d fabrik):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfuO...

Per usual, the sketch is open source and can be found on my website / github:

live: sketches.isaacmason.com/sketch/crawler
github: github.com/isaac-mason/...

This is my first stab at foot placement procedural animation so my approach is fairly rudimentary.
tl;dr

- raycast to find an ideal foot position
- step if the current vs ideal distance exceeds some threshold, and a leg is within their slot in a repeating step phase timer

I created a handful of controls to quickly throw together new "crawlers". If I use this in a game someday I'd imagine creating a bunch of different characters and enemies just with different crawler configurations.

I haven't posted a sketch in a while, here's a new one called "crawlers" - an exploration of inverse kinematics and procedural animation.

Added googly eyes after realising I made a nightmare configurator 😂😅

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Was asked by GLSL course students to cover particles, so here's my first pass on an easy particle system. Expect to see a new section soon covering this, gpgpu techniques, and more.
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