Charles Grassi

Cartoon Water Shader #cartoon #indiedev #unity3d #madewithunity #gamedev #indiegame

Full article with animated SVGs & interactive demo: charlesgrassi.dev/blog/gpu-cache… Covers mipmaps, channel packing, bindless textures, and profiling with Nsight/RGP. #gamedev #shaders

Mipmaps aren't just for visual quality: they're a cache optimization. Far surfaces sampling full-res textures = scattered cache lines. Mipmaps = coherent, cache-friendly.

Your texture sample takes 4 cycles or 400+ cycles. The difference? Where the data lives in GPU memory. A thread on cache hierarchy and shader performance 🧵

Rebuilt WoW’s Maelstrom in Unreal after years on Unity 🎮🌊🌀 Flowing water, swirling mist & a cheeky rainbow, all real-time. Engine hops? Easy when you know the math. Live 👉 artstation.com/artwork/WXKB2E 📬 DM if you need a shader wizard! #UnrealEngine #gamedev #shaderdev #shader

@XorDev God damn !!! Ahah fuck yeah congrats for that

Wow! Thanks for the tag, Musk! x.com/elonmusk/statu…

@XorDev That’s super impressive man! I started following closely your work lately and I adore it, keep it up!

195 chars of #GLSL vec2 p=(FC.xy*2.-r)/r.y,l,v=p*(1.-(l+=abs(.7-dot(p,p))))/.2;for(float i;i++<8.;o+=(sin(v.xyyx)+1.)*abs(v.x-v.y)*.2)v+=cos(v.yx*i+vec2(0,i)+t)/i+.7;o=tanh(exp(p.y*vec4(1,-1,-2,0))*exp(-4.*l.x)/o);

After a long day of hardcore GPU coding—shaders tweaked, performance squeezed—I like to unwind by exporting Nvidia Nsight data to a CSV and letting an AI craft a ‘fancy’ graph of the progress. That’s my kind of Friday thrill... I sincerely hope yours was a tiny bit more exciting. 🥲#GPUCoding #ShaderOptimization

@iquilezles What about conditions from sampled textures? If every pixel in a warp takes a different branch, ?: causes extreme divergence. Would mix() be better despite always computing both?

Hey, don't "optimize" conditional moves with mix()+step(). Please stop advising that. Why: iquilezles.org/articles/gpuco…

A few months back, I experimented with 2nd-order dynamic equations to bring this little guy to life (Mainly because I can't animate 🤫) for a game prototype. Procedural animations are weirdly always so damn fun 🔥 #TechArt #Unity3D #GameDev #ProceduralAnimation #IndieDev

@AlanZucconi That looks super cool man

After ONE YEAR, I can finally announce to you all that the GAME AI course I've been working on is FINALLY out! 🥳 From Behaviour Trees to Neural Networks, and everything in between! Covering both theory and practice! 🦾🤖 (link & discount below 🧵👇) youtu.be/qED1YBU0rZo

@Titou49916210 Bientôt le monteur de l'année

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@_kzr algorithmicbotany.org/papers/coloniz… And this is the original paper for the Space Colonization Algorithm ,it's an impressive algorithm in terms of simplicity and how cool the data look with very few variable changes. 100% Use that if you need vegetation that grows according to a geometry

I'm working on a Burst Compiled parallelized version of the Space Colonization Algorithm, widely used for creating trees and natural shapes. 🌳 I am using a spatial partitioning data structure that @_kzr recently shared, preparing a very special VFX.. Refs below. #unity3d

@_kzr I strongly suggest everybody interested in last rendering tech to check out @_kzr Github, he is always the best reference to check out last technologies Unity provides. (Thank you) github.com/keijiro/VFXCus…(This is the example that has the data structure for spatial partitioning)

The Alien Egg: An HDRP Visual Case Study 👽🥚 From ShaderToy to creating a cinematic alien egg still hot from falling to earth! (Inspired by this awesome shader : shadertoy.com/view/4dcGW2) #Shader #Unity3d #TechArt #MadeWithUnity #gamedev #indiegame #shadertoy #scifiart

@AlanZucconi @HillhouseGrady I loved it, thanks !

If you're a game developer or a level designer, I HIGHLY suggest watching some of @HillhouseGrady's content on his Practical Engineering YouTube channel. This video, for instance, explains how rivers move, which is essential to recreate realistic levels. youtube.com/watch?v=UBivwx…