nickdev

@slethion I think you deserve PhD in game design

The perfect example that sometimes more is less and less is more. Bring back fighting for resources Make it a survival again I launch the game and every map looks the same with the same 30 monuments and same base designs from youtube

@lisyarus Maybe create scenario where it would be bottleneck and test that way wether your optimization works as intended

@NickDev22 Presumably the number of indirect draw commands itself wasn't the bottleneck

I've "optimized" my entity rendering to batch instances of the same mesh (still using just one multi-draw-indirect call), going from ~17k to just 115 draw commands for this shot. Somehow it gains 0.2ms without shadow maps but loses 7ms with shadows enabled 🥲

@lisyarus Why?

Ohhh wait it was a typo. This optimization does pretty much nothing to the performance, yep.

@lisyarus Lighter color of water

@NickDev22 Hmm, what do you mean by "light spots near islands"?

Finished refactoring water rendering to use the same chunk-based LOD system as the terrain, with frustum culling and async loading and stuff. No more missing chunks & holes & flickering, everything works smoothly! 🥰 #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

@lisyarus how does this infinite water work?

Implemented the infinite* water plane - the world map now looks cohesive instead of floating in space 🥰 I'll probably want to add something more interesting on the water-horizon boundary (like some clouds, idk), but this will do for now. *10000km #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

@tsitskidev What is gameplay loop

some gameplay of me going GODLIKE, been working on optimization so there isn't anything exciting to show today, other than this GODLIKE gameplay

@tsitskidev @yagoandradev Looking cool, next video shall be about that😅

@NickDev22 @yagoandradev raymarching, sampling shadowmap so that there's less density in shadows, creating godrays

look at me being a real dev, here's a custom render pass that renders a shader ontop of the existing render at a lower resolution, allowing me to render the fog shader over the entire screen, at 1/8th res with blurring! no more gpu bottleneck at high res!

@tsitskidev @yagoandradev how does this fog shader work?

@yagoandradev custom render pass based off of unity's built in full screen render pass + the option to render at lower resolutions, then a full screen version of my existing fog shader, idk if this is helpful but im running out of words 😱

@thomasbrushdev how does that work? is body and legs separate from hands rig?

Finally added a body to Tiny / Vincent in Twisted Tower. It's the *little things*

@NickDev22 Ugh, mid october most probably!

What a lovely little village! Would be a shame if it was just 0.02% the size of the world, right? 😅 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

@lisyarus What does z prepass do?

Implemented a Z-prepass, gaining extra 2ms in a certain foliage-heavy scene. Here's "quad overdraw" capture from RenderDoc - most overdraw now is due to triangles being too small for distant terrain. (here, darker is better) #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

@lisyarus Haha thanks, no problem. I'm slowly figuring it out I don't even remember what I wanted to ask when I worte this😅

@NickDev22 Hey, so sorry for a late answer! I haven't implemented light shafts myself but I think I know the technique pretty well! You can dm me, if that's still relevant 😅

Still kinda blown away by the scale of my game's world and all the possibilities it has. Imagine it filled with rivers, deserts, lakes, towns, mines! 🔥 Ugh, so much more work ahead. (please ignore the weird cloud shadows 😅) #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames

@sean_gause can you quickly explain algorithm of how that swinging is achieved?

Unity's physics joints don't get along well with parenting, so I wrote a script that fakes some lantern swingy movement. No physics required!💡

@Protox0 How it looks like indirect instancing wasn't caus3 recent performance improvement so fps will be further improved hopefully

@NickDev22 Good explanation, I saw that indirect instancing still has a lot of bugs so won't be used for a while as default.

Looks like metal container skin is getting optimized to give better fps when used. #Rust

@lisyarus And shader values are controlled from code to achieve day night cycle right? Like colors and stuff. And fog/lighting maybe also

@NickDev22 Yep! Plus a few textures, of course

Btw the moon actually has correct moon phases & makes a full cycle in 30 in-game days, which is exactly the length of one season (spring/summer/etc) #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

@Protox0 Yeah, hopefully there will be as much work done as possible to reduce cpu time.