The issue with skinning is Normals, Tangents, and BiNormals need to be Recalc😪, coz the lighting must correctly conform to the light direction. a bit complex on my part, but I hope I got it in the main environment light source.💃 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #GameEngine #Vulkan #DotNet

I think this time around, the shadow is correctly positioned against the light, 💡 and the objects are darker too, but brighter facing it ~ but it still needs a lot to improve. 💃 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp #GameDev #indieDev #HobbyEngine

I’m bad at math, but who even am I without the fascinating Cos and Sin?💃My environment light depends on Latitude and Longitude using Cos, Sin - and honestly, the right lighting position can have a visual impact✨ #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #indieDev #HobbyEngine #DotNet #CSharp

Marcus Fenix model from Gears of War 💖 Just testing my character animation, and I’m so happy it worked smoothly from — Mixamo → Blender → GLTF -> Znb( My mesh format ) with zero fuss ✨💃 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #HobbyEngine #DotNet #CSharp

If you know who this dude is, you know!✨ finally GLTF ascii or bin files exported from Blender are now working.🔥It's been such a struggle to get it working on my part, but it's all coming together now, even with those packed joints✅ #GraphicsProgramming #Gamedev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp #DotNet

MG! OMG~it’s happening!😱Model animation with skinning supports up to a max of 255 joints!🎉This means more complex and detailed character rigs are possible💃 allowing for smoother deformations and more expressive animations.💃 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp #DotNet #Animation

Tarisland Dragon! 🎮💃 #Gaming #GameDev

I can now select animation keys!😱 Joint animation calculations are really expensive. The animation computation now runs on separate threads, so everything stays smooth ~ no camera stuttering on game update🚀💃 I’m still getting 700+ FPS on my cheap GPU.😊 #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp #DotNet

Almost done!💖The joints are animated, everything’s moving now, and I’ve been taking my time with it (slow cooking, hehe✨). All that’s left now is adding it to the shaders and it’ll be complete!💃🥳💕 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

Been busy at work, but I’m almost there. No animation yet, but I think I’ve got the joints set up correctly. 💃 This is the famous Cesium Man (from the glTF sample assets), and of course, the Tarisland Dragon. #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp #DotNet

I can now load any format supported by Assimp. 😊 I’ve tested it with FXB and GLTF. 💃This example uses a GLTF file. I’m hoping to finish the animation routine later this week. 👩‍💻 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp #DotNet Tarisland Dragon:by Hallow:shetchfab:CC-BY-4.0

Slow development on my Vulkan framework/engine. I'm currently in the middle of creating the asset/content cooker using AssimpSharp. Right now, my mesh loader only supports OBJ and MS3D, which I wrote from scratch... #GameDev #IndieDev #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

Yes, yes! I love retro games!

Some are confused about whether it is a console or a PC. Many argue that it’s basically a PC because it will have a desktop OS. However, a PC can function like a console, and a console can be a PC. 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗯𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴?

I just had to make sure it runs on the real Linux platform because the file handling is different from Windows or on its WSL. And ta-daa! It works on 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘅 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘁! I’m so happy! ✨🐧💚 #GameDev #IndieDev #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #Linux #MintDistro #DotNet #CSharp

Yay!! OMG OMG OMG!! 🎉💻Linux build actually worked!! X11/XCB is living its best life… but Wayland said “not today” and failed. Probably some missing dependencies on my WSL being dramatic again. 🙄✨ Thanks to Sir Willems for the tip on using WSL!✨💃 #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #Linux #CSharp #DotNet

Touch input on my Vulkan (Android) project is all set ~ test play : “Touch and Blow” 😘💃😅 #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp #Android

Not much today,💅~just out here slaying a dramatic little orientation change bug 😊and teaching the Android project how to properly pause, stop, and resume w/o throwing a tantrum. Yep, it took a while since I’m not using any windowing library. 💃👩‍💻✅ #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp #Android

The Vulkan Working Group has published, Building a Simple Game Engine, a new in-depth tutorial for developers ready to move beyond the basics and into professional-grade engine development. Learn more: www.khronos.org/blog/new-vul... #vulkan #tutorial #programming #gpu #gameengine

Hooray!🎉I can’t believe I’ve pulled this off ~ this #Vulkan project is now running on Windows ✅ and Android ✅Next step: I need to install Linux to test it there as well and maybe grab a Steam Deck too, just for testing purposes.💃 #GraphicsProgramming #Gamedev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp #Android

C# is an amazing languages ever created. It was designed by the same genius behind Delphi (Object Pascal/Turbo Pascal) and TypeScript, and it combines power with clarity. I wouldn’t trade C#’s clarity and ease of use in game development for a few extra FPS gained by using another language.

It's happening!💅✨That’s the iconic CornflowerBlue Graphic API background color 💙And yessss, finally the framework is running on Android!! 💃📱 Also, can we talk about how even Samsung is out here proudly showing the GPU name? Like okayyy hardware queen, we see you👑✨ #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #CSharp

One step at a time! 🙂 At least now I know I can successfully load the Vulkan API and retrieve the Vulkan version using pure C#. This is a small milestone, but it confirms that the core integration is working. 💃 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #Dotnet #CSharp #Android

If you wanna know if #Vulkan @vulkan.org is the right graphics api for hobby developers (tl;dr: yes), you might find an answer in my #Vulkanised 2026 talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eshk...

Yay! 🎉 Finally, the base (pillbox) barriers are done! It still needs some polishing, and I still need to add the mystery ship. #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #gamedev #DotNet #CSharp #RetroGame

This is the structure my mentor taught me to follow when writing classes in C#. With this foundation in place, I just need to implement the functionality. Since most of my classes follow this structure, debugging is much easier because I always know where to look. 🙂 #GameDev #DotNet #CSharp

I truly believe that Tomohiro Nishikado, the creator of Space Invaders, is a remarkable genius. He managed to create something revolutionary. It’s not easy to replicate the precise and synchronized movement of the aliens in the game. 🕹️ #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #Dotnet

Completed the enemy ships’ dance routine 💃🚀 Yes ma’am ~ the villain ships are officially serving choreo.✨ This is my little prototype game, built to test how easy and fun the engine is to use. 👩‍💻✅💃 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #Gamedev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp

I’m doing some modeling in Magical Voxel lol, and let’s just say… if you know, you know👾Think retro arcade vibes. Think pixelated chaos. Think tiny alien cuties plotting world domination in the most aesthetic way possible. 💅🚀👾 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp

It's always a total lifesaver when your engine can gracefully check the maximum hardware capabilities against your settings and adjust itself accordingly👩‍💻💃 ~instead of dramatically throwing an error and crashing the system 😜 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp

I find it extremely hard and ridiculously tricky (at least on my end 😅) to implement 𝗠𝗦𝗔𝗔 (𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗦𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗻𝘁𝗶-𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴) together with 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 in Vulkan. 𝗠𝗦𝗔𝗔 × 𝟴 (yes, the maximum my GPU can handle 😊💅 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #Gamedev #Indiedev #DotNet #CSharp

I’m just so tired of over manually controlling the camera 📸So, I finally let the camera do the work and slapped a LookAtTarget method on it💖. but under the hood ~ still calculating the Euler angles as seen on debug label camera rotation. 💁‍♀️✨ #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDecv #Vulkan #DotNet

Worked on the skybox today ☁️💗 Took almost half of the day to connect all the sky planes because apparently the sky likes to play hard to get. But she’s aligned, she’s flawless, she’s serving atmosphere ✨ #GraphicsPrograaming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

Implemented a different QuadTypes : 💃 Quad – A standard 3D quad. Billboard – A quad that always faces the camera. DirectionalX – A directional quad but still faces the camera. DirectionalY – A quad that faces the camera on the Y axis only. #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #Dotnet #CSharp

There you go! All the light probes are now billboards~yes, very fake glowing, obviously 🙃✨ No bloom effects whatsoever, but hey, they totally serve their purpose. 💃 Pretty, lightweight, and doing their job like the queens they are 💅🌸 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp

Why is VK_NV_fill_rectangle NVIDIA-only?😭Like excuse me bestie, I just want cross-compatibility. Now I have to manually compute vertices and make them face the camera like I’m doing geometry cardio for my billboard object😭💅 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp #Billboard

I revised the basic effects Orthonormal Basis again✨I really hope I finally got it right this time! ✨Imagine using only 2 textures, Base color and a Normal Map. It’s honestly amazing how something so simple can create such an eye-catching result 💕🎀 💃 #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp

Yayyy!! 💃💖✨ My 𝗙𝗼𝗻𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁 and UI 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗲𝗹 object are finally working and ~ honestly? After all that stress, they decided to cooperate like the icons they are 💅😂 #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

This is the transform behavior I’ve always wanted for a 2D system. 🥰💃 A 2D object should allow its position to be set either in "World space" or in "Screen space." When one is set, the other should be automatically derived and kept in sync.✅ #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

I guess this is the final list of Blend States💕: SOLID_OPAQUE, ALPHA_SOLID, ALPHA_COVERAGE, ALPHA_ADDITIVE and ALPHA_TRANSLUCENT being fully respected by shadows✨ They can be effortlessly applied to pretty much any model ~ not just the boring boxes😉💖 #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

All Blend States are now working on both 𝟯𝗗 (Quads) and 𝟮𝗗 (Sprites)💃Alpha to Coverage is basically the budget bestie of Additive Alpha, it gets the job done w/o fancy sorting, just a little rough dithering that remembers the last color it saw😄 #GameDev #Vulkan #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp

My 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 has finally decided to wake up and work ~ fashionably late, as usual💅✨𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 and 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗹𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 are divas and absolutely need sorting to behave properly. Meanwhile, 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱 and 𝗔𝗹𝗽𝗵𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 are low -maintenance queens, no sorting needed💃👑💖 #GameDev #Vulkan #DotNet #IndieDev

I'm adding Alpha Additive blend state coz, well… #Vulkan 🙃It’s definitely not just “set the state to ONE and ONE MINUS and call it a day.” but I accidentally created an edge-detection filter 😭💖Not mad~just slightly surprised and impressed, honestly. 💃� #GameDev #IndieDev #DotNet #GraphicsProgramming

50K White Knights vs 50K Blue Knights. At first it sounds like a cute medieval fashion showdown~Team Ivory Chic versus Team Royal Blue Drama. But nope. Turns out medieval war is actually very bloody, very scary, and absolutely not a fairy-tale. #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet

A single QuadBatch could handle Millions of Quadlets. But once I let those quads get animated and dynamically update individually💅I’m “only” doing about 100,000 yes, ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ~fully dynamic, animated quads. Still cute @ 60-70 FPS💖✨ #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet

Ahaha,😀 there’s absolutely no harm in dreaming big, okay? A girl’s gotta manifest somehow! ✨ I just need a fabulous, powerful, slightly dramatic title for my engine, because if I’m going to build it, it might as well sound iconic. 😅💃💅🚀 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

QuadBatch! Serving one million QuadLets ✨Every QuadLet is fully manipulatable ~ no clones, all dynamics 💎60 FPS at half a million,30 FPS at the full million 💃All wrapped up in one shader resources, buffer, and one shader module 💖🚀 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

Testing of debug normal lines on Single-group and Multi-group meshes💅 A total of 1,777,884 dynamic debug normal lines, the frames did drop dramatically from 1.5K+ FPS💅BUT still serving 500-700 FPS on a volatile frames using my low-end GPU✨ #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet

That is NOT grass u dev...!!! 😆🌱🚫It’s actually a debug normal visualization of vertices 💃📐double-checking that my normals re-creation are behaving themselves, coz let’s be real, some models come into my life with their normals COMPLETELY F* up🤡 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet

I haven’t played in a while, but I’ve already completed BOTW, TOTK, HW, Links A, and Skyward💫Someone just gifted me Echoes OW this Christmas, and honestly… how could I say no? 💕🎮Looks like it’s time to dive back into Hyrule again ✨ Someday, I’ll create something like this. 😊 #Gaming #GameDev