As I mentioned, this whole system is powered by my own simple software ray tracing renderer. And what's the point if you're not going to goof around with weird lens projections 📸

I was particularly pleased with how nicely it plays with my stylised time of day lighting system (a tool I've been developing for Summerhill and other projects) ☀️🌙

Another random clip I never shared from when I was debugging moving grids and other optimisations. Here you can see new probes spawning around geometry as the camera moves. Larger cascades are disabled for a clearer demonstration.

A recap for the Bluesky crowd: my implementation was largely based on DDGI, which uses software raytracing to sample light into a grid of probes. I implemented multiple cascades, moving grids & dynamic probe states. It allowed for infinite bounces & (potentially) infinite environments.

The atmosphere of our game

When I’m not working on sheep herding games, I like to tinker with custom lighting tech.

Here’s my own realtime global illumination system running in Unity!

Video is here! Check out this teaser trailer for my upcoming sheep herding game, Summerhill 🐑

➡️ Wishlist on Steam summerhill.game/steam