A little behind the scenes. All shadows are bakes and lighting is all very much faked.

It looks like the animated wallpaper plugin I was using no longer works with Windows 11, but this should work with Wallpaper Engine and I'll look into making it work as a screen saver. Hopefully this looks ok compressed.

This works a lot better than I expected it to. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

Bacon wrapped filet with gorganzola cream sauce and roast cauliflower and carrots. I'm participating!

Week old pinaple and a vodka coke. #foodish

Also added some rejection algorithms to the temporal blending. The base blending amount is 3% but if the camera is moving a lot, the light changing a lot, or if areas are being exposed or hidden the blending will increase to mitigate ghosting artifacts.

Lighting changes:
Bleeding the lit voxelized geometry instead of just black for light blocking. (more light propagation)
Generating mips for voxel textures for softer cone samples. (more stable)
Below is a view of what a light cone sees VS what the scene looks like.

Finally got this brighter and running at 110-120 fps on a 1080GTX at 1080p. #screenshotsaturday #unity3d #gamedev #shaders

Some more work GI work. Removing all the biases and magic numbers I can find. Made things a little harsher/blotchy but is more predictable in more situations. I think a light probe volume might be better for evenly spreading more light. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #unity3d #shaders

Some more updates on SEGI integration. Lights with shadows affecting the GI, custom emissive material, unfiltered GI samples, Filtered GI samples. Running at 95 fps at 1080p, on 1080 GTX. Hoping to get it up to 120 fps. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #unity3d #shaders

Also update the voxel visualization shader. Uses the larger cascades like a sparse voxel octree to guess if there is anything in the lower cascades. Some of the normals are gray due to both sides of the cloth getting rendered to the same voxel. And there is a little light leaking from the sun.

You can also add is to just a part of a character and make a cool invisibility cloak.

Posting some old stuff. Here is an active camo effect I have used on a few projects. This keeps the object opaque and pulls the background colors inwards.
Write up: vfxmike.blogspot.com/2018/06/opaq...
Repo: github.com/SquirrelyJon...
#vfx #unity3d #madewithunity #gamedev #indiedev #tutorial

Using the voxelized scene I can draw shadows for all the lights in 1 pass to an atlas of 64 lights. These lights and their shadows get injected in the next voxelization pass and are included in the GI. These shadows can also be used when lights get too far away to warrant a full shadow pass.

Finally get to make one of these things! Doing some new project research and dug up SEGI for Unity. Untouched for 7 years. github.com/sonicether/SEGI Working on boosting quality and performance. Still some more work to do but looking nice. #gamedev #VFX

First Post! I'm Mike. I'm the guy who makes the vortexes. That's really all I do. Some have lightning, some of them glow, some are horizontal, some are vertical, sometimes they are blue, sometimes they are not blue, but they almost always spin counter clockwise. #MeetTheDev #VFX #GameDev