I've slowly been hacking away at my engine for years, and recently noticed I was at 2048 commits. Doesn't feel like that long ago I hit 1024, and not that much longer ago I made the first commit.. Making good progress though and still having fun!

Here's a direct before/after bent normals comparison. It's a pretty subtle change, but I think it makes a really big difference when it comes to overall realism.

And here with some varying lighting!

The head asset is the LPS Head from casual-effects.com/data/ by @morgan3d.bsky.social

I recently implemented baking of & support for bent normals, which made a pretty nice difference for my subsurface scattering demo scene. These images are captured in real-time from my rendering engine github.com/Shimmen/Arko...