Shahzod Boyhonov

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@_survivorr123 No, they are imported from blender. Sorting is done in Blender. They don't rotate. The grass system moves with the player, so the player is always in the center of the system. But the movement is not noticeable to the player.

@specoolar how do you pre sort towards the camera? does the full game object rotate in a way thats not visible to the player? are meshes constructed during runtime?

Custom grass system. No instancing, no Compute shaders. Just game objects splitted into chunks with LODs. Displacement in vertex shader. Their geometry is pre-sorted towards the camera to minimize overdraw. Unity automatically handles culling as they are just game objects. #madewithunity #realtime

@paws4puzzles around 200. ~70 of them are for grass.

@specoolar Smart move skipping compute shaders for mobile. Pre-sorting geometry for overdraw is that detail most miss. What's the draw call count?

Here running on Quest 3 for my meditation game. Wishlist here: meta.com/experiences/lu…

No, we have RTX at home #madewithunity

@lowiqmarsoupial Probably, I will port it to steamframe once it's publicly available

@specoolar steamframe plz!! I'm not buying anything from meta ever again

Working on a relaxing exploration VR game for Quest 3. The game will have multiple different locations to explore. Running natively on Quest 3 (and 3S). Wishlist here: meta.com/experiences/lu… #vr #metaquest #madewithunity #unity #dreamcore #frutiger

@penfantasi 😁

@specoolar If you post something 3d i kinda default you share something in blender 😅😅

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@MysteryPancake1 Wow, the fire looks so good, I have to try.

@specoolar it's also quite useful for fire and flame looking things

Fake caustics experiment in EEVEE, Blender. Basically I am projecting the mesh itself onto scene geometry. #blender #b3d #geometrynodes #caustics

@MysteryPancake1 Yeah, seems like the same method. I just did multiple light bounces inside the object using repeat node. I needed an animated water caustic texture. I found this method very effective and accurate compared to Cycles caustics.

@specoolar i think i used the same method a while ago youtube.com/watch?v=C9iQKs… it's very effective

@DX_Nacca Blender still counts this material as opaque. You need to connect transparent/semi-transparent shader to the output.

@specoolar It still doesn't work. ;-;

Water surface tension effect using Raycast node in shaders, Blender 5.1, eevee. #blender #b3d

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@specoolar Do I need to change some settings for it to work correctly in Eevee? I downloaded the latest beta version and I can't get it to work. Note: it works correctly in Cycles.

@gleb_alexandrov In eevee you need to set the material render mode to Blend.

@specoolar Thanks a lot! I need to experiment with it.

Hey @specoolar - the stuff like that doesn't work in Eevee yet though, right? I'm confused :)

@_arutkowski @Vincent65653500 Did you set material mode to blend, instead of dithered?

@Vincent65653500 Not yet from from my tests, but it is super recent change so hopefully soon.

new raycast shader node in Blender 5.2 is great #b3d

@Zoidrawz Yes

@specoolar Are you using a particle system setup similar to Unity? A flat plane with a texture that always faces the camera?

Finally we can sample depth buffer using new Raycast node in shaders. Here is an use case with custom soft particles. #Blender #b3d

@nickelsidius @Trinumedia The Falloff distance node is just Value node. I just renamed it to Falloff distance

@specoolar @Trinumedia I still can't figure out how you placed the Raycast and Follow Distance nodes in your node tree. They aren't in the Material nodes; they're located in Geometry Nodes. Please help me)

@AndrzejSykut Yes, because Dithered materials overwrite the depth buffer, so the ray intersects with the object itself.

@specoolar Does this work only on Blended materials? Seems to behave strangely with Dithered, or even with Alpha at 1