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@bis_ric @eagledynamics @onretech @VIRPILControls @HIPGamesTV @TMThrustmaster @trackir @BigscreenVR @pimaxofficial @WINWING_SIM @RAZBAM Man DCS always LOOKS good. I just wish there was more of a game with it.

The Iraq map dropped yesterday for Early Access and it looks promising. Only Baghdad and the Northern portion of the map is in high detail and the mountains look insanely good! Colonel Swoops is ready to fight Desert Storm all over again! #DCSWorld #DCS #Simulation #FLIGHT #flightsimulator #PCGamer #pcgaming

@OperatorDrewski Is that a mod?!?

so i found the littlebird in arma reforger

@apoc_dev Those tracers look really good. The world looks alive with all the vehicles, NPC interactions, smoke. Looks good.

Made a discord if people are interested 👇

@apoc_dev This is the way!

@RetroFlier Instanced and some collider magic

New weapons to fight back against the tree menace #mech #mecha #gamedev #indiegame

@apoc_dev For interactions, I do poition checks for the tree "cell" that holds that areas trees, and do individual distance checks per tree in the specific area I want to check. Very fast and can have horizon to horizon trees on mobile.

@apoc_dev Looks good. Is each tree a gameobject? I made a tree system where I have a master tree contoller that holds each tree in a class, with parameters like position rotation scale etc. Then use drawmeshinstanced to draw a thousand of trees per draw call...

@MJF_game That is very creative. I love outside the box thinking for UI's. I'm designing a VR UI now and looking for this kind of innovative tricks!!

Hey guys! I thought for a long time how to solve minimap placement issue and decided to combine it with the joystick. How do you like this decision? #unity3d #madewithunity #gamedev #indiegames #indiegamehour #IndieGameDev #screenshotsaturday #gamedevelopment #gamedesign

@roadtovostok Looks amazing! Great textures, lighting, animations, and UI. For what it's worth, I have that exact Acog and there is not the black blur on the inside edges of the scope ring. It is clear to the edges.

Rail movement (optic settings) is now restored from the old Unity build.

@PalmerLuckey @benz145 I did some cool VR tracers where I would calculate the position of the bullet, then draw a line (actually stretch a quad with a sprite on it) from the previous frame position to the current position. It worked really well and looked "smooth" as it flew.

It is very, very hard to emulate tracers correctly with current VR hardware. In real life, they rely very heavily on persistence of vision, smearing across your continuously-integrated view. Same goes for traditional night vision. VR displays, on the other hand, have to jam everything into a small handful of discrete frames, often just a single frame given the short engagement distances in most recreational shooters. Very hard to make that look even close to correct given the hardware and perception limits associated with current-gen hardware. Worth noting that some devs are just lazy on this and don't even begin to consider what doing it right would look like.

Q for VR devs: are good bullet tracers hard to do well? They're critical for the feeling of any shooting game, but I often see 3 main issues: too slow, wrong length, not bright. Is this just missing attention to detail or is there something that makes it extra challenging?

@TheMirzaBeig @Igotlazyagain I do like using it IN shaders, to lerp between different textures. However, just played with it and it really looks aliased in VR... maybe someone smarter than me can figure better implementations though.

@RetroFlier @Igotlazyagain Correct, dithering is useful for simulating transparency for opaque rendering. And stylization, smoothing bands, etc. x.com/TheMirzaBeig/s…

Dither-fading. No real transparency: it's 'simulated' using a progressive dithering pattern. Each fragment renders fully opaque or not at all (binary 0/1), as a "dissolve" of sorts. Not only retro, but more performant. (+solves many sorting issues) #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d

@TheMirzaBeig @Igotlazyagain Did some figuring - dither uses Alpha Clip which is much slower than opaque. Great for your example objects, but not good for say 10k trees with overdraw.

@TheMirzaBeig @Igotlazyagain Wait.... ASE dither works on opaque objects?? OK I have to try that. That will be a game changer for overdraw. I thought it was only for transparent.

@KickBackStudios @AntonHand Wow that does look better... gets rid of that awful banding. Did you implement that in a custom shader?

People are talking about raytracing and dynamic GI and here I am still getting excited about how much better dithering makes dLDR lightmaps look. #indiedev

@FR3NKD Wow OK that is a great idea. Simple texture lookup instead of multiple texture samples. Ill try that on some of my modeling.

@RetroFlier Low poly displacement 😁

Tavern architecture look development, using only tileable textures and trim sheets. Still a work in progress, but it's a good start! Feedback is appreciated!

@mac_shirk Wow well the attention to detail is incredible!

@RetroFlier This scene has been 7 weeks so far

One week difference, approaching the end

@apoc_dev Any tips how you did it?

sunday optimisations, added frustum culling to trees

@FR3NKD Love the textures! Are you using POM on the rocks? Or just normal mapping?

Exterior and interior walls will have different levels of deterioration.

@FR3NKD I love this! I also super optimize for the quest. It's amazing creating a huge level with 50,000 polygons, using normals to create beveled edges etc etc, then seeing a 100,000 polygon sandwhich in a AAA game. So rewarding when you can get good frames!

Taverna is polygonally non-existent. All the architecture is like 170k triangles with displacement stones outside the Tavern. I'm obsessed with optimization, the number of materials for architecture is kept to a minimum and they are all tilable. This is what happens after 2 years of standalone VR development.

@micro_prose Nu... nu....nuclear... strike???

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