Thomaz Nardelli

The surface is using a transparent, full metallic surface shader, the color is all in the post process, as using the plane with some blend resulted in a really plastic look 3/3

sparse voxel octree as LODs.

As one of the first major guest contributions to the project, user zaza added an optional xray view for sprite rendering, optimized sprite and shadow rendering, and implemented batching for ground items. The game now performs way better with hundreds of items on the ground.

Built a basic rigidbody simulation running on the GPU, using hardware raytracing for collision detection Right now the RT is the biggest performance bottleneck, I imagine doing a coarse collision check with an SDF and only then performing the RT would speed things up quite a bit

@RoDoddler while in renewal it always felt a bit arbitrary and cheap not being able to hunt stronger monsters (in most part because of the exp reduction). However, it did feel much better here, and it was more rewarding to form a party, maybe a bit too much hahahaha

@zazamorga The biggest thing is monster's subtractive defense hurts a lot if you're underpowered, probably more than any level based adjustment. Going after strong monsters without a good attack stat is already pretty rough.

Amon Ra was a bit of a menace to the leveling party. I changed the way he behaved, he will periodically channel spells at players from his spot in the middle of the floor. You can avoid his attacks (the red cast circle) but you have to be paying attention.

@RealtimeLuis it's a soft shadow technique developer.download.nvidia.com/shaderlibrary/…

@zazamorga What means PCSS?

Implemented some basic PCSS in URP today, I remember trying to do this years ago and failing miserably, now it just took a few hours, guess I did learn something after all

having some fun with DXR in URP please ignore my atrocious attempt at denoise and reprojection...

here's a video of the final result, now i just need to record the actual tutorial, which i feel will be the hardest part of this entire project #madewithunity #URP

working on a small volumetric fog tutorial for URP i'm kinda bad at explaining stuff so i'm trying to keep it simple, going for a more stylized approach instead of physically accurate i do like the look tho

Yoo everyone, these past few months I had the pleasure of being able to work on the new League of Legends game mode. Thanks to Envar Studios and Riot :D. Hope you are having fun #gameart #handpainted #stylized

@BenSimsTech Yeah, for this game specifically it's doable, since there isn't much else going on in the GPU I also had to make the cloud less dense than I wanted because of aliasing issues... it's great, but definitely not an end all solution

@zazamorga Fair enough, 512 depth slices is a lot! Like you mentioned, modern GPUs can handle it, but it depends how much you're doing into the rendering pass. At 1080p, that's 1 froxel per 12 pixels, at 4k its 1 per 24. Which is quite low res, I think games tend to do 1 froxel per 4-8 px.

volumetric clouds/fog using froxels not sure if surprisingly cheap or if new gpus are just that fast #madewithunity

@BenSimsTech In this video i cranked it up to 160x90x512, so a little less than a 2D 4k RT, but I can still get good looking results with a depth of 64, less than that and it gets rather ugly also worth mentioning that there is no reprojection and that I'm using a big far plane, not ideal

@zazamorga What resolution is the froxel grid? I've found that it gets too expensive in terms of VRAM and shader time to maintain detail over long distances, compared to raymarching. (For vol clouds and atmospheric scattering with sky occlusion)

@danielsantalla Here's a nice presentation gdcvault.com/play/1020397/A… In my implementation I use a compute shader to calculate all the lighting, noise, etc into a 3D texture and a blit for the actual raymarching in CS weirdly it was way more intuitive and simpler than just the raymarching in WS

@zazamorga How? 👀

Yo #PortfolioDay. I'm Pedro, a Brazilian environment artist. Previously worked on Wild Rift, Relic Hunters, Square Enix, etc. I am currently working at Moon Studios and freelancing for Stoic Studios... (you can also see 2 pixels that I made on Earthblade hehe)

Finally I'm sampling a cubemap with my refraction and reflection vectors and composing the object inside the ice (4/4)

During the raymarcher I'm also checking for collisions in the depth buffer, if it does, I also save the Screen UV coords from the collision point (3/4)

Thought I would share a bit more about how my ice shader works (1/4) #madewithunity #shaders