hi I'm back, have some destruction R&D stuff from a while ago :)

This is why, for a while now, every time I tackle a complex feature or project, I always make a small, often hacky prototype implementation first outside my main project. This might be a weird strategy, but it means I am never going into the proper implementation blind and know what to look out for.

I know this was a joke post but in one indie game project I was on, our custom dialogue editing tool would play that one biggie cheese clip from Barnyard at maximum volume if you left the editor idle in the main menu for 2 minutes. I added it for April fools and just never took it out

Being nice to random strangers on the internet is actually addicting ya‘ll should try it sometime

Someone with more experience please explain: Isn’t fat-struct architecture terrible for CPU cache due to the large object size?

I don‘t need AI I can create a mental health crisis all by myself!

Found an old geometry cache playback experiment from some years ago :) The dynamics still look quite good I think! Rendering became the bottleneck here, so Vertex Animation Textures are probably the way to go afterall (who could have thought). #techart #gamedev #simulation #realtimevfx

Am I crazy or is “4 player coop with positional voice chat comedy game” just like, an unreasonably successful formula the last few years?!

Isn’t it weird that all the engine developers that work on tech like Unity or Unreal essentially never get credited in any shipped titles?

Stress type (Compression and Tension) visualisation in my new stress algorithm as part of the new destruction system I made a few months ago :D

Listening to the music of @aiviwave.com & @surasshu.com while programming has been a massive blessing for productivity. If anyone knows any more good music to code to, let me know, I’m starting to run out :)

Stress type (Compression and Tension) visualisation in my new stress algorithm as part of the new destruction system I made a few months ago :D

hi I'm back, have some destruction R&D stuff from a while ago :)

Not normally what I like posting about. But. @steampowered.com appear to have seriously broken the german Steam store. Many games - like Doom 3 or The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - just simply don't have a buy button anymore. (They are not restricted in germany, there's nothing in SteamDB about it.)

I made a small patching tool for DarkSector (a 2009 game from Digital Extremes) to fix some of the technical issues with it - like stretching at 16:9, and being unable to render at anything larger than 1080p. Check it out here: nolramsstuff.com/darkpatcher/ Oh, and the game is free at the moment!

Found an old geometry cache playback experiment from some years ago :) The dynamics still look quite good I think! Rendering became the bottleneck here, so Vertex Animation Textures are probably the way to go afterall (who could have thought). #techart #gamedev #simulation #realtimevfx

I have a joke about graphics programming but VK_ERROR_EXTENSION_NOT_PRESENT

Accidentally implemented some kind of translucency in my deferred lighting pipline recently by... not treating backface normals correctly. But hey these leaves look pretty good now! Not intentional but sure appreciated! #gamedev #techart #rendering

Anyone got any advice on how to best alt-text images of VFX-ish stuff? „Amorphous mass of particles“ isn‘t a particularly helpful description I‘d think

Really old Quasar-ish thing. I need to get back into experimenting with raymarching :) #gamedev #techart #realtimevfx #vfx

An old real-time destruction experiment of mine, with the old angle-based stress algorithm... It's old but I still think it looks good! #gamedev #techart #simulation #realtimevfx

I work night shift. “But you’re a game developer!” Exactly.

Fog is such a uniquely beautiful phenomenon somtimes... This is a screenshot from a weekend project 2 years ago. It's still one of my favourites, the natural gradient from overlapping volumetric fog volumes is just breathtaking. #gamedev #3D #techart

Normally temporal reprojection utterly destroys clarity of VFX in games... but what if we used temporal reprojection to our advantage? A few screenshots from an experiment some years ago. #realtimevfx #vfx #techart #gamedev

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