it's sooo stylish yeah :3

it's from studiocult but their stuff is a tad pricey 😭 I want to get some matching earrings from them at some point but maaan

TY I love this ring so much ehe

I got this one today and I clicked it out of curiosity because it was such a funny headline, and it was just an ai summary of how to beat the radiance boss fight in hollow knight 😭

thanking you for "not expressing your political views" and then simultaneously feeling the need to express their political views to you is so funny. the hypocrisy is craaazy they must be so close to being self aware about it right?

I should make a spectral caustics node

rendering caustics 3 times for the RGB channels is 3 times as expensive, so rendering it for a continuous spectrum of colors *would* be veeery expensive if we stuck to this method. instead, I render stretched/anisotropic photons and map the entire spectrum onto them.

(very old buggy scuffed WIPs)

yeah! it's kinda based on substance designer's method of rendering caustics with photon tracing. you render individual points as little gaussians blended additively. they do support dispersion, but unfortunately it's just an RGB split, which is where I wanted to improve things

I made this because substance designer's caustics node does dispersion with a simple RGB split, and I had an idea to render dispersion with caustics across a full continuous spectrum of light without needing to use any noise or random sampling

left is substance designer, right is mine

dating an entomologist gave me such an appreciation for these lil guys. they get so much underserved hate </3

I've heard good things about WGPU but you need to learn rust

doomed yaoi plotline was my favorite thing in the game im ngl

oh I ended up never really getting around to it 😭 when i started learning godot stuff i mostly just started doing really new things with compute shaders that i couldnt do before

like it sucks to see graphics programmers get blamed for bad art direction just for making new tech and tools for artists, and people extend that distaste to any new graphics tech that is shown off in a realistic art style even if the comparison isn't at all between bad and good art direction

..but there's like one example of a game doing that and y'know, the hardware is 7 years old.

hope that sheds some light on how game development works! game devs aren't just a blob of people all doing the same roles.