The most interesting thing is the blue planet ring that goes around the sphere that one time near the end of the clip. I would love to learn how you did that.
I also just like the object itself, with the gray things coming out of the craters, the color palette, and how the shadows look.

I love the look of this! Nice job on the art.

I used to have so much fun doing that.

Just a small change

I hate the info buttons next to textboxes that are designed to give you more context about what to fill in... when they navigate away from the page you just spent a few minutes filling out. I've been burned too often in the early internet days to ever trust them again.

It's definitely tough. One of the things I try is imagining myself walking around the smaller area and asking "if this wall was gone, what would I expect to see?". If it's a small room that you're trying to make bigger, sometimes it's helpful to ask "why are rooms big at all?" and make a list.

That is awesome! Have fun with it!

Absolutely.
cargo run --release --features bevy/trace_chrome

Take the resulting file (try to keep it small) and upload it to ui.perfetto.dev to see it.

I really appreciate the links and knowledge. Thank you!

You are awesome. Thank you for all of the help.

It's release and actually only 9,099 entities exist of which only 449 are visible. I just reduced the number of active point lights down to 71 (which helped, 30fps now) so is the lighting (no shadows) the issue? How many point lights are too many?

I did not know about this! Thank you for sharing it.

At this point I am now having issues with the long-running "prepare_window" function call.
I have about 90,000 entities that share the same 6 meshes and materials (95% have a Visibility::Hidden component) and my framerate is still awful.

I'll look into that. I think there is a World in the Gltf that I can probably Query (or something like that).

The N64 changed my life. The GameShark Pro coupled with the RAM expansion pack gave me my first insight into altering code, changing dialog messages for scenes later in games, and making the story my own. It was always so rewarding.

I want to play Stellaris but I worry that I'm going to spend 10 hours in there just to mess up something important.
How long are games, usually?

I have never liked 4X games (primarily because I haven't found one that isn't pay-to-win). I'll have to check out Blue Prince, but it always seemed like a game that I would end up min-maxing, writing a program that finds the best decision to make given the current layout.

This is why I am more interested in games that allow me to come in, be creative and solve problems for a little bit, and then leave. Games like Minecraft, "alchemy" games, MMORPGs with simple quests...
I just don't have the time anymore to sweat.

I'm always amazed by all of the subtle ways our perception of reality is never quite true to reality. Thanks for sharing this.