DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering
A new rendering algo that lets you merge a whole bunch of ShaderToy and raytracer-style techniques right into your existing bone-animated triangle mesh rasterisation pipeline.
New longer technical details video:
https://youtu.be/SA2cXydaq1A
Short "pitch" video:
https://youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk
There's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info.
https://github.com/tomforsyth1000/DASHR
I may do a Q&A video later, so ask away.
DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering
A new rendering algo that lets you merge a whole bunch of ShaderToy and raytracer-style techniques right into your existing bone-animated triangle mesh rasterisation pipeline.
New longer technical details video:
https://youtu.be/SA2cXydaq1A
I had an Old Man Moan over on Bluesky - I'm sure no news to anyone here.
https://bsky.app/profile/tomforsyth.bsky.social/post/3mxa4uyxhxk2e
But I'm looking for examples of tools that let you livecode shaders with a lot more artist-friendly integration - mouse-clicky sliders, colour wheel selectors, etc. We have plenty for middle-aged demoscene coders. But I'm sure I've seen some for non-Scandiwegians - I just can't remember where. Ideas?
wake up babe, new Krazam just dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0otdTJa9IUc
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@rygorous/117379149183098732
Fabian info-dump thread based on his experience (or at least I think it's based on that) of implementing this in the Larrabee software renderer/graphics driver.
I have a vague idea about recording every gibberish sentence fragment of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc syllables, and ending going up, middle, and down. And then mark up the English with those, and you're done. Easy right? Of course not - but someone must have done a talk on WHY and HOW to make it less crap.
Been thinking about voice sounds for the Game I Will Never Actually Finish. Has anybody done a good talk on doing Simlish-like voices? So - record a bunch of gibberish, then map it to the text in a semi-reasonable way such that it doesn't sound wildly off?
GDC 2019: “Automated Testing of Gameplay Features in 'Sea of Thieves'” by Robert Masella of Rare, Ltd. https://gdcvault.com/play/1026042/Automated-Testing-of-Gameplay-Features
I actually thought this was really interesting. When Rare started on Sea of Thieves, they decided they were going to be serious about testing. They said *every* patch is expected to be accompanied with a test.
So how do you actually do that, for a game like Sea of Thieves? They had unit tests of course, but they also had integration tests *written in Blueprints*.
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meshoptimizer 1.3 is out! Featuring a new voxel remesher, support for normal generation, several simplification improvements and various optimizations and fixes. GitHub stars and retoots appreciated!
meshoptimizer was started a little over 10 years ago; I'm a couple weeks late but let's call this an anniversary release. Very happy with where things are, and excited for the years to come!
DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering
Short video for now - I might do a longer one later?
https://youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk
But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info.
https://github.com/tomforsyth1000/DASHR
A common question/misconception I see is the "scale" of this. This is not intended for landscapes or larger objects like that - we have good technologies for those (and they don't tend to animate much!)
This algorithm is intended for fine surface details on clothing and suchlike. This whole tube object would be somebody's arm, if they were wearing a particularly knobbly jacket and had three elbows. So that's the scale to think about.
Pardall Games is live! https://library.pardallgames.com/
Explore EVERY SINGLE ASSET from Final Fantasy 7 (including animations, pre-rendered bgs, and a surprise: Summon animations, it's not a video, it's all summons reverse-engineered into the browser, and you can inspect them in 3D).
+ Resident Evil 2, Baroque and Boku no Natsuyasumi at this launch.
More than 30 other games coming next, roadmap: https://library.pardallgames.com/roadmap
Thankyou so so much to all my preview subjects for all your amazing feedback. This is going to be somewhat of a live document and codebase for a while yet - there's a few more things to sort out - so comments and suggestions welcome (though please do read the "out of scope" section first!)
This is a rendering algo I've been working on for ages, and it's finally baked enough to make it public. It lets you merge a whole bunch of ShaderToy and raytracer-style fancy techniques right into your existing bone-animated triangle mesh rasterisation pipeline pretty easily.
DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering
Short video for now - I might do a longer one later?
https://youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk
But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info.
https://github.com/tomforsyth1000/DASHR
I think I've finished both my paper and the demo to go with it! Some lovely preview feedback with some great advice - really tidied the paper up. Now I just need to do the explanatory video. Which means having to listen to & edit my own voice. Ugh.
FF7 scenarios with pre-rendered backgrounds were always a mystery to me during childhood; but even to this day it's still amazes me. Now you can inspect every single Final Fantasy VII stage, including the 3D path + variations.
Website not live yet. Still polishing things up.