So, it turns out, to achieve good looking caustics in Blender with Cycles you need to disable "filter gloss" option and NOT use "cast/receive shadow caustics" options

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Silent Hill 4 uses interesting volumetric light / light glare approximation. Instead of drawing sprites at each light source, full-screen subdivided plane with procedural vertex colors is rendered and blended with game frame. #gamedev

Does anyone know how Climax Studios implemented shadow maps on PS2 and PSP in Silent Hill: Origins and Shattered Memories?

Got bizarre dream bazaar to work with portmaster Not quite butter smooth, but it works

yeah

(Textures by Makkon)

Was wondering why vertex lighting looks ugly in linear RGB compared to sRGB Turns out it's due to interpolation in linear color space. Interpolating sqrt(col) fixes the issue I also tried sqrt(1/col) but it looks wrong on smooth normals I wonder if this can be applied to lightmaps too

Experimenting with normals for spherical environment mapping #gamedev #indiedev

This is a great thread @hillsguy.bsky.social, I'll add a bit more context here for anyone interested. Yes there's no fancy sim - it just uses a water interaction buffer as a target for the particle system rendering, so we could use the power of particle system we already have.

Decided to check out how water is rendered in Counter-Strike 2. Given how interactive water in CS2 is, I expected to see some cellular fluid simulation, but turns out they just use a low-resolution off-screen buffer with flat 2D decals used for various aspects of water. Reminds me of HL2 water :)

Made cloth physics using compute shaders in webgpu as a test assignment for a job. Got rejected anyway. Well, anyways, at least I implemented cloth physics for the first time and tried out new graphics API...

doodles

Attempt to approximate light sampling from surface area to smooth out the vertex lighting a bit. It kinda works, but I was expecting polygonal mesh structure visible due to vertex lighting to disappear, but it didn't... off / 1.414 units disk radius / 2 units disk radius #gamedev #indiedev

Experimenting with AO and normal map calculation from height map in shader #gamedev #indiedev

#surreal #digitalart #krita

Ah yes, furry fagslop, finally #furryart

I am in maggotnizer phase lately

practicing #digitalart

trying to understand trees

Probably many of you have heard about palette swapping (and also palette cycling), which old games (up to PlayStation 2) utilized to to add visual variety without consuming too much VRAM

Random fact: Coraline's mother's laptop is based on some old thinkpad

Worked on the Nintendo DS version of ClassiCube a few days ago a bit. It's still not very playable, but at least it's a bit faster and better looking than it was. #homebrew #indiedev

2023, @grammwein.bsky.social art style ripoff (sorryyy) #furryart

Various old doddles 1. 2024 2. 2022-2024 3. 2022 4. 2024 #digitalart #furryart

Finally added simplified frustum culling to my potentially visible set calculation program Now processing this map (328 meshes, 217 tris) takes 48 sec on my 1660 ti, previously it was 130 sec I render 8 256x cubemaps per cell and fill vis grid using DDA in compute shader #gamedev #indiedev #raylib

Trying to deobfuscate/refactor STALKER Mobile 3D (J2ME) object loading code

Yume Nikki (ゆめにっき) (2004)

sketches #furryart 1. MOS 6502 2. fursona haysona motankasona 3. Uni frustration 4. Uni graduation

Some more or less finished pieces #furryart

Hiii So It seems that everyone is leaving twitter/x after the last TOS change, so nice to meet you all again I'm going to post some of my old stuff now