Damon Perron-Laurin

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[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

Ill be at #MIGS26 next week, come and say hi! (if you can find me :P)

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@Starsunder_Game I'm still fading them by time, but I removed the trails when orbiting.

It added to much visual queue, especially in mid to late game when there are way more trails to draw on screen.

I also changed how they look to highlight different things based on the zoom level.

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

I added trails to ships in order to better see them. This implementation had a couple of problems, but I like how busy it looks!

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[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@corhoonx AND it looks cool!

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@corhoonx Outer Wilds for sure

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@PtVHVQ2FPQ51994 Using Δv still only works if you somewhat smooth the value over time, but I found its best to smooth the trail itself.

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this is an interesting topic, how would you implement it in rust? Assume you have access to shaders and a small texture for passing data to the gpu

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@lucaumdev ha ha, yeah

better to show spaghetti than showing nothing at all! :P

I'm always looking for better options. If you have something more elegant I'd love to hear it! 👀👀👀👀(increasing the size of spaceships with camera zoom maybe?)

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@FableQuest Yes! Its exactly what I was aiming for.
Its only useful when the camera is zoomed out, so when its closer to the action, I swap the visual cue for something smaller, but more "accurate" and "simulation-lite" ;)

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@buanyinsu False motion cues is the biggest offender in this example, you can see trails "spark" in weird ways because of the change in ship "state" (orbit <=> transit).

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@PtVHVQ2FPQ51994 By lifetime. Speed creates a bunch of edge cases with world/local coordinate. Δ v (acceleration) is probably better than just speed for this use case, I use it for other visual effect already ;)

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

Used dark arts and forbidden techniques to make a visualization tool to compare transit animations (much faster than stacking frames)

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

While some transit are very simple, some are mesmerizing

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

After a week or so of working on the core game progression, I came back to the ship journey planner and took a more simpler approach. Its much better (0.783ms) than the last version (34ms)!

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

I spent so much time trying to make transits "look right" that they became boring... Maybe ill take the L and dig up the old implementation. They looked cooler, felt right and were fast to compute >>

Sometimes its best to admit you were wrong and learn from your mistakes.

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

Tried to visualize orbits and transit path by stacking frames captured during testing. Ended up with something beautiful ❤️

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[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

Trying something new #factory #space #GameDevs #isthishowyoudohashtagsquestionmark

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

early early

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@ELDENRING Still getting <10fps and my GPU & CPU are both underutilized (all AMD build)

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@fromsoftware_pr @fromsoftware_sp

Any plans on enabling proton support for EAC on Elden Ring? Id like to be able to play with my friends. T-T

エルデンリングでEACのプロトンサポートを有効にする計画はありますか?私の友人と遊ぶのが好きです。T-T

[Damon Perron-Laurin @Drawm08]

@dungeonsanddads Googling what "truck nuts" are during the latest episode and found this gem https://t.co/rT9sNtCzM9