It's as if @garyseconomics.bsky.social knows what he's talking about

Brain instantly went here

Lunchtime #shader shenanigans (hopefully less compression)

Mr Richard Aoyade, please

Yes - 100% Maya is one of the _worst_ UIs. I genuinely think no-one on the Maya product development team can have ever spent serious time in other 3D applications.

Mesh, Edit Mesh (different from regular ol 'Edit), Mesh Tools and Mesh Display?!?! Its a circus show!

My reaction, too

Reminded today how far we've come, cut my teeth on this - modelling _one vertex at a time_. Some masochistic part of me miss that simplicity.

Cheeky extra demo/breakdown.

* 4 customizable colors
* Automatic dithering
* Customizable resolution
* LCD mask
* Optional glass reflections

I made a GameBoy LCD shader that also (optionally) supports horrendous environment reflections that make it impossible to see what you're looking it - truly authentic!

Some ramblings on YCoCg color space:
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Welcome! I am also trying to use this place more!

Some old R&D, using custom mip chains to create stylized textures that aim to maintain brush stroke widths.

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I spend too much time thinking about Look Up Tables - here's another one, where I approximate thin film interference:

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(I need to dig out the source code for this, and re-link it - comment if I forget to!)

Working on a character customization system? Here I wrote how to make use of bitmasking so you can dynamically layer up as much clothing as you like, without any nasty clipping.

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I wrote a Monte-Carlo photon beam simulator in Python that obeys Maxwell's equations just to generate a lookup table of accurate human skin tones

I put it in Unity & Unreal so that you can have completely dynamic skin color

I wrote about it all here, free of charge!
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