Michael Teschner

@aaravdayal It’s not CPU noise vs GPU noise, rather, precomputing noise once in the CPU, and then having the GPU reuse it many times. The old method had a noise function that was computed per-frame on the GPU, the new version uses a 3D noise texture that is loaded from disk at startup

@MichaelTeschne7 Wait but how is CPU noise better than GPU noise?

Ray marched clouds now use a precomputed 3D noise texture instead of a GPU-side noise function. The reason? Performance. GPU noise sampling became a HUGE bottleneck for volumetric clouds, and this "game" needs to run in the browser on a potato. #webdev #opengl #gamedev #GPU

@aaravdayal Volumetric raymarching in a fragment shader. The cloud volume is a cube, whose fragment shader does performs word space raymarching inside of it. The cloud-density noise is made using a 3D noise texture saved on disk

@MichaelTeschne7 Now how do these work!

Volumetric clouds... on a budget! #opengl #webdev #emscripten #wasm #GPU #glsl

@aaravdayal If the client even predicts another player to be at a location, and the server says otherwise, the client just overwrites the player position with what the server tells it. This can lead to rubber banding in bad cases, but I haven’t had any issues with it in testing.

@MichaelTeschne7 Who owns the final say when there is a remote-local discrepency?

Multiplayer is hard. #gamedev #webdev #opengl #GPU

@aaravdayal Thanks! It’s a custom shader being applied to a ui quad. The shader takes in a list of aircraft positions and a terrain height map, and does a bunch of shader magic to make it look like a HUD

@MichaelTeschne7 How does the mini map work? It looks pretty good UI wise.

Reworked the menu UI. Minimap and compass are working. Pretty happy with how this turned out!

@MrCollison @threejs @KenneyNL This editor looks fantastic! What ui framework is this?

Don't mind me, just installing the cannon Shoutout to @KenneyNL for the incredible asset pack, check his profile for the bargain of your life (and pay more if you can) Trivex asset system development started - with a new asset-engine package powered (of course) by @threejs

For anyone interested… I just posted a YouTube video breaking down how my flight simulator’s custom game engine works! Check it out here: youtu.be/iUHU5h4eHoA?si… #software #gamedev #devlog #GPU

Got some good initial work done on explosions and crashing flames! #gamedev @webdev #opengl #gpu #shaders

Spent a bit of time adding usernames and name tags. With the engine I've made, implementing this feature only took a couple of minutes! #webdev #opengl #gamedev #ui

What's y'alls take on this mysterious new Anthropic model?

@lisyarus Too*

@lisyarus How long does adding debug visualizations like this take for you? I usually skip that step in my projects because I fear it will take to much time away from development.

Added plots for seasonal temperature & precipitation over the selected point on the map! It's cool how some areas have +/- uniform precipitation while others have their true monsoon seasons. The temperature curve looks the same everywhere though... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

@md_kasif_uddin Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, C++, C, and hopefully rust soon

which programming languages can you code in without using Al??

@r0ktech This is inverted

programmers who write C are on a whole different level

@womp3D What graphics API is womp using in the backend?

render vs reality

@lisyarus I’m nearing that “time off” phase myself… I’m worried I’ll never return

It's been about a month since I touched the game. With projects that huge, sometimes you really need some time off 😅 Anyway, I've finished propagating simulated water chunk updates to higher LODs, meaning the basic water system is more or less finished! #indiedev #gamedev

@notch @neirenoir @LowLevelTweets I wrote an entire networked web-browser flight sim in C++, OpenGL, and Web Addembly, just to avoid JavaScript. I have zero regrets

@neirenoir @LowLevelTweets Pros: 1) Get to write javascript! 2) Modding support! Cons: 1) Got to write javascript! 2) Did you know there is no good standard sandbox for javascript? I might be blind. There was a promising one that shut down after someone found a prototype chain shenanigans or something

ive had the same computer since 2016 should i built a new one or no

@_amohs Easily some of the best 2d terrain I’ve seen all year

Quick snapshot of the terrain and grass system after quite a few people got tired of our grid floor prototype ahah Also starting to prefer the characters with the black outline, feels more readable. What do you think? #gamedev #indiedev

And it still works on a library computer #opengl #webdev #gamedev #shaders

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