Daniel Lever

Makin the browser do cool stuff since 1999. Technical Director at ED.

[Yann Le Gall @Yann_LeGall]

#genuary2025 #genuary6 "Make a landscape using only primitive shapes."
here's one using points (and motion blur).

[Ania Catherine @aniacatherine]

the accuracy

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@ItsMeKonaruhi There’s an emulator behind this! And emulators aren’t perfect, especially ones in the browser. There are a few different options though and I’m trying out different ones 🙂

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

Say no to backlight mods!

Tidied up the geometry around the LCD, added the power LED and power switch animation.

#threejs #r3f #gameboy #retrogaming

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@AkiraBaes Amazing! This is actually a better reference than I’ve been able to find online 😂 I’m going down to mums this weekend to find mine!

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@Avirtualfuture Adobe Substance Painter! It's slightly confusing but fits pretty nicely to the side of a Blender -> GLTF -> Three.js workflow. And I have a Quest 3, so maybe WebXR at some point? I'm not sure how good the controls would feel though.

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@justmani Stretch goals!

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@MrmoTarius There’s so much potential in bringing fallout tech to life — fans have been at it for years! Hoping they give Pip-Boy the attention it deserves 🤞

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@AuliyaasGames I’m glad that isn’t a consideration for gameboy because my substance painter 30-day trial doesn’t include that asset 😮‍💨

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@AuliyaasGames Nothing escapes our greasy human digits! Look at your phone screen right now 🙈

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@threejs Oh sure! I can submit something tonight. You can actually see it in action on the Transmission example — just change the color to #000000 and you’ll see it goes from translucent to opaque. Dropping the alpha is a workaround, but the reflections fade too.

https://t.co/VEufL0eYet

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

Adding more detailed texturing to my skeuomorphic gameboy emulator!

Using Substance Painter for the first time. It's kinda neat! But so much trial and error.

#threejs #r3f #blender #gameboy #emulator

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@N00b_B1scu1t It's actually kinda hard to find references online, literally because most modern video footage is of modded backlit devices! Spent some time looking for my childhood GBC but it must be at mums...

And yep, the case color is a single value which can be changed at runtime!

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

New side project, a browser-based replica of the Gameboy Color 😊

Still a little rough!

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@WebObsessedCom A few things I'd like to implement first, then I'll chuck it online. A couple of weeks I reckon.

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@N00b_B1scu1t Haha, guess again!
https://t.co/Ct8cjPnXHl

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

Say no to backlight mods!

Tidied up the geometry around the LCD, added the power LED and power switch animation.

#threejs #r3f #gameboy #retrogaming

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

If I remove the alpha map entirely, the transmission seems to actually multiplied by the base color of my material, which is unexpected? So you can't have a black material which is also transmissive? Blender and Three.js seem to disagree here!

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

It kinda looks ok, but the reflections/roughness in front of the LCD are being affected by the alpha map, despite having a transmission map? I'm definitely doing something wrong 🤔

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

@rogerdickey Haha thanks! A lot more I’d like to tackle!

[Daniel Lever @_danlever]

Whoa!

[Retro Game Corps @RetroGameCorps]

There is a new GB/GBC/GBA emulator now approved and available on iOS. It allows you to load your own ROMs via the Files app (this screen recording is from my own testing). https://t.co/UoXfgIVsUz