I finally have 1 step / texture read per voxel, much harder than anticipated given all of the (literal) edge cases. Not perfect yet but more exact edges and fewer steps required to get there. This is half as many steps used as any previous video, avg ~2 steps per pixel at 1080p.

Keep rolling, rolling, rolling, yeah!

Jensen Huang rescued me from probably living in debt the rest of my life. I was told I was one of just three hires that he approved during the pandemic, during a hiring freeze. I've never spoken to him, and only passed by him in HQ once. His personal life is frankly none of my business. But as a leader, I have yet to meet a better one. Ousting him is financial suicide, and I can only assume there is a hidden ulterior motive because I can't fathom any other reason for destroying the company's value.

flying above the forest

Cellular Automata but where there is variable geometry :-)

Rules can change the shape of the cell and thus turn the local geometry positive or negative.

I'd explain in more detail but I don't have the time right now XD

The principle can be used to simulate a lot of the "The Hyperbolic Geometry of DMT Experiences" (2016).

The year is 2109. Two centuries after the automobile put horses to pasture, rare metal shortages have ushered in a new era for hooved beasts… 1/

Let me help you, little miners...

Oopsie. #threejs #sandbox

I had Claude (loosely) port Ken Silverman's voxlap to GPU. It supports something closer to the original voxlap rendering (with coherence per column) [currently slower, but also unoptimized] and independent rays per pixel with Amanatides–Woo DDA. It did this in about 1-2 hours ance from me.

RT @runevision: New video:
Supercharging my procedural mountain forest

Two years of landscape progress in one devlog!
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Got a first version of the water surface working, including some quick foam that moves with water speed.

This is for the water simulation in my relaxing sandbox building game Island Architect.

Trying a particle-based cloud system, moved by wind velicity, and repelled if too close to another particle (to prevent from degenerating into thin streamlines).

Seems to work, but it quickly reaches a steady state. Need to randomize it a bit.

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

BTS! How we made our waterfalls, took a lot of trial and error to get the look we were going after.
#steam #indiedev #nintendo

Tried adding some cracks below this ice, crazy what a difference it makes compared to the flat texture 🧊

Apparently this song is AI-generated? We are so cooked
youtube.com/watch?v=lly6wE…

On a NOT Unbound note, here is a spare-time experiment I always wanted to try out:

Making physically plausible and interesting worlds *without* using Perlin noise and *without* using regular grids.

Here is how it works:

グーローシェーディングとデプスバッファを実装した #shapolab

There are plenty of valid critiques in the AI war, but thinking that something "is not going to work" is too confident of a take. "Will Smith eating spaghetti" was almost exactly just 3 years ago.

Introducing Texel Splatting: Perspective-Stable 3D Pixel Art

open source paper+code

Most 3D pixel art techniques (e.g. t3ssel8r, ProPixelizer) snap pixels to a screen grid, which only works with an orthographic camera

Texel splatting solves this for perspective cameras: first,

Parallax Mapping (Left) vs Parallax Occlusion Mapping (Right) 👀 Which result do you prefer?

Both techniques are explained step by step in The Godot Shaders Bible. Learn more 🔗 jettelly.com/store/the-godo…

#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #realtimeVFX

Here's a look at how the mattress physics look using my debug view. A mattress is essentially a 3x5 grid of rigid bodies connected with joints to flex, and then stacked on another grid kinda like 2 pieces of bread, with springs between them for compression