Lexie Dostal

As an asian kid, my parents refused to buy me a console. I played PC multiplayer games. Social drew me into gaming and working with @GardensChris, Stephen Bell, @hxLexie and Serge Knystautas was my dream. @GardensDevs is building a generational game. bit.ly/3SSu3ed

@_abinas @unity3d most likely no. There have been some great improvements to rendering API and GI solutions since this implementation. This was pre ray tracing support. while it was still pretty impressive with what it could do. it would be drastically improved by leveraging modern tech.

@hxLexie @unity3d Assuming you're working on gardens, will this ever see the light of day? Any chance for you to make it's repo public?

[WIP] HXGI - Realtime GI solution for @unity3d. Temporally stable Denoiser is starting to look pretty good at 1spp. Ill post a video of it in motion soon.

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@AggroCrabGames Wouldn't this mean you are in breach of your contract as you are bringing extra expenses microsoft needs to pay as part of the gamepass deal? Talking to your lawyer might be advised.

update: looks like we might not be on the hook for game pass! its still a bad model for plenty of other reasons. twitter.com/stephentotilo/…

SIGH

@baavetti Just an example. I only play dota 2, no other games exist to me.

@hxLexie does Dota 2 use unity for servers, or is that just an example?

Does headless servers count as a unity install? Dota 2 has 2.2 million games played per day 2,200,000 * $0.01 * 365 days = $8,030,000 per year you would pay unity just to run your servers in the cloud. monetization models are going to get wild, sorry gamers... #unity3d

This axios article clearing everything up only makes things more confusing. its saying distributors are on the hook to pay the fee not developers, @Microsoft you going to pay for this meal? bihttps://www.axios.com/2023/09/13/unity-runtime-fee-policy-marc-whitten

@RaphErnaelsten @unitygames @AssetStore 👀

To thank you for ur kindness, ur PATIENCE and ur help in making the best asset, "Inti Wasi" a full-scale environment will be offered for FREE with "Aura 3 : Volumetric Lighting for @unitygames". See you soon for more. ♥ #unity3d #gamedev #gamedevelopment #urp #hdrp @AssetStore

@PCzacD @DMeville was going to suggest the same thing, If you have a homogeneous fog value it tends to wash out unless you implement none realistic extinctions and scattering like more density in sunlight vs shade etc which come with more issues.

Foggy. Trying to figure out if/how to get noticable fog/light shafts without having the fog wash out the scene with a white haze. Can't seem to find a middle ground I'm happy with. Getting there though... #gamedev #unrealengine #gameart

@onefoxstudio @HarryAlisavakis +1 To Microverse for people wanting something similar. Been messing with it recently and it has some really great features. @slipster216 did a great job with it.

@HarryAlisavakis Microverse ? Anyone ?

@shreekumar3d @JawsTec3D Shree! how's it going!

@hxLexie @JawsTec3D This is nice to see @hxLexie!

Made some more progress on my custom gaming phone over the holiday break, 3D prints just arrive from @JawsTec3D! Switched over to rails for the controllers as the embedded magnets couldn't handle the sheer force. Screen is now held in with end caps, no need for adhesives!

My dream has come true 🤩 2 player dustforce co-op at a marathon! Team Skavenged and team Dukkiez will play 2p 16 reds while Fresh and I commentate, run is Sunday at 13:30 UTC (15:30 CEST, morning US) on twitch.tv/esamarathon Also recommending the whole HEKathon (live now) ♥

@crypticsea 😅

I'm only half-joking of course, it's really cool that my work helped spark the creation of so many great games and one bad one

Over the years I've had quite a few people tell me that one of my games inspired them to become an indie game dev, and to all of them I'd like to say: I'm sorry

@alexanderameye @thisistehks @unitygames @harryh___h :( same. Some of his 3D conversions of @blurring_my_day drawings were very inspiring. Timing just didn't work out.

@hxLexie @thisistehks @unitygames Little part of me hopes that @harryh___h is involved btw 😅

4 texture utilities I'm developing/using right inside of my @unitygames project ✅ Blur Filter ✅ Channel Packer ✅ Gradient to Texture ✅ SDF Baker UI Toolkit + compute shaders ❤️

@alexanderameye @thisistehks @unitygames I could come up with more reasons to want a SRP but you can do a lot with URP and HDRP, although their LTS versions are lagging pretty far behind.

@alexanderameye @thisistehks @unitygames custom SRP is mostly linework related, All linework, interior and exterior supports MSAA and composites with correct depth, fog and lighting. We can also manipulate linework based on parameters so color, linewidth etc.

@RaphErnaelsten @AssetStore @unity That's great to hear! As long as everything isn't obfuscated it should be very easy to hook up as our SRP is branched from URP. We have a very unique renderer and require a volume based approach for compositing, we would love to be part of the beta, Look forward to your updates!

@hxLexie @AssetStore @unity Thank you for the kind words! :) You're absolutely right and pushing the boundaries :) ✅ I absolutely intend to leave the sources unobfuscated so people can learn or modify for their custom uses (especially in these srp days!) No ETA but a beta call will probably be announced :)

Aura 3 will be on the @AssetStore of @unity with tons of new features & improvements. I want it to be THE best package so here's the chance to ask for anything in order to achieve that goal. I will answer with ✅->planned/WIP/done 💡->idea ❌->can't be #gamedev #gamedevelopment

@RaphErnaelsten @AssetStore @unity I'm seeing more and more packages abstract code into DLL's making it harder / impossible to integrate with out decompiling the DLL's.

@RaphErnaelsten @AssetStore @unity Awesome, I have been hoping Aura 3 was still in the works, I'm guessing its froxel based solution for easy transparency/forward support still? One request is to have the source available, so its easier to hook up to custom SRP. Is there a release/beta data set?