Thibault Hennequin

A brief summary of the evolution of my game engine in 2025 #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine #recap

A scene with multiple skies. It's not revolutionary, but it's pleasant to look at.

@riobruto Thanks. I found an image on the internet, I reworked it, and generated a normal map.

@CameleonTH wow its great! that impact texture looks so good

7/30 r/gamedevcels probably the worst, least performant, bloated code i have ever written for glass shattering i am unlovable and i deserve to die alone

@JKoukourakis Nice, thanks for the explanation.

@CameleonTH It's a custom made path-node system. Not a navmesh. Both systems have their ups and down. I went this route because nodes are generally easier to edit manually and debug and they can handle uneven terrain much better than standard navmesh.

As expected I got tired of manually placing path nodes very soon, so I made a tool to automate it.

@Sean_Hinris It's an easter egg.

After the water shader, I'm returning to the glass rendering and shattering 💥. #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine #vfx #physics

@Kiiiri7 Thanks. Yes, it's a baked GI (a grid of spherical harmonics). And yes, it's a shadow cast by an omni light. And a behind the scene screenshot from the editor.

@CameleonTH Looks really good. Is this baked GI? Also is this an actual shadow cast by MJ? Hee hee

I've changed my mind I will finally add entities in my poolroom exploration game. Here's a preview of the first one. It's better with sound. 🔊 #gamedev #indiedev

@fl3r31m54h0 @passivestar_ Both are not incompatible to reduce the GPU bandwidth.

@CameleonTH @passivestar_ I don't use PVS from BSP btw. Instead I'm working on HZB-based occlusion culling on GPU. Potentially should be much faster and does not require pre-compilation. I use BSP as a container, once everything is loaded, there's no BSP involved in the pipeline. That's the idea :)

After months of testing and tweaking, I've finally versionned my GI using spherical harmonics. Now that it's done, I can move on and experiment other stuff like specular occlusion. For this, I recreate a test scene from @passivestar_ #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

@fl3r31m54h0 Thanks, I hope to release a game soon.

@CameleonTH You should be really proud of this achievement! Thanks for the tip. Wish you success with this project. It looks awesome to my taste :)

After replaying a famous FPS, I wondered if my engine could deliver rendering quality similar to other commercial game engine. So I tried recreating a level, and after two days, here's the result. What do you think ? #indiedev #gamedev #gameengine

@nesovdaniel Sorry, but I can't make it less terrifying. :D

@CameleonTH Had me at the edge of my seat. Genuinely terrifying. I'm unfollowing you I can't stop trembling in fear

@fl3r31m54h0 @passivestar_ Nice to have a BSP loader. My scene contains a lot of meshes with custom occlusion boxes, so no culling via portal/BSP.

@CameleonTH @passivestar_ That's impressive! I'm working on my own pet engine. Hope I will get my bugs fixed soon and roll out an update. Currently using Quake assets for playtesting, loading from pak/bsp.

@fl3r31m54h0 Thank you. It took me years to achieve this result. So, be patient with yourself ;) The reference was Half-Life: Alyx (here's a screenshot).

@CameleonTH Looks awesome! Love the style. Working on my own game engine and this looks pretty close visually to what I's like to see as my demo scene, but i'm still pretty far from such level of quality. Rly impressive job!

@dudecon The dream isn't over. And are you sure it's not a nightmare ?

@CameleonTH I feel like I've been here in a dream a few times.

My global illumination is good enough (for now), so I reworked my water shader and what better place to test it than poolrooms? #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

@pedroth9 I have an editor, so I can place and transform cubes to create walls, a floor, water, ...

@CameleonTH But the scene was imported from blender or tour engine has an editor?

@BackroomsTP Same here

No DLSS 5. No upscaling. No raytracing. No DX12. I'm still using good ol' DX11. It's never let me down.

@pedroth9 Thanks, there's only my game engine, a cube, a cylinder, and a pink flamingo. 🦩

@CameleonTH amazing! what tool did you make the scene?

@PondsideGames We will have to wait a little while before we can virtually dive into this pool.

@CameleonTH The water turned out absolutely perfect! It looks so inviting that I actually want to jump right in. And as for that majestic flamingo, I don't even have words!

@EllSvenkeson That's the best I can do... for now.

@CameleonTH Lookin’ good! Can’t wait to see reflections on the walls.