Greg Sometimes

pictures aren't mine I only take them

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@arcwrightengine It's actual terrain of Montana. In the game the area is currently 64 square km.

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

walking in a forest with 2.1 million trees #gamedev #indiedev

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

Somewhere in Montana... #gamedev #indiedev

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

What birds see when they fly... #gamedev #indiedev

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

This is 0 overdraw...meaning every pixel on the screen is rendered only 1 time. But it is not raytracing, just a hybrid architecture that has both rendering from front and back. Somehow they meet and blend in just perfectly, lol.

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

Raven flying over 3 million trees from a game i'm working on... #gamedev #indiedev

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@sulrim_rpg well, that area is about 50-60% of entire optimization because small triangles in distance are the worst for a gpu...

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

3M trees at 60fps, got the lighting work correctly on slopes...next I need to make trees look more real #gamedev #indiedev

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@Hashgraphian Okay I am going to get real.

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@m_emanaftab Yes all trees are swaying based on wind strength and direction (this can be done if it's done on GPU). There are also waves of wind going over fields of grass and trees with dynamic distance audio. It'll take time to put together a better demo...

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@sulrim_rpg That's pretty good...it's similar to game ideas i have too

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@sulrim_rpg There are already impostors, but not for individual trees...entire forest sections...

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@sulrim_rpg That's "seen now" in the camera view, it's impossible to see them all in the same camera view 3M is a lot of pines...it's running on a macbook pro in chrome browser in webgpu (til I get a better PC) in a relatively small resolution but nanite scales well for 4K

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@Hashgraphian I guess the idea is not to make something special, but to make something playable where you can walk around lush forests without glitchin' – I'm making a game.

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

This is 0 overdraw...meaning every pixel on the screen is rendered only 1 time. But it is not raytracing, just a hybrid architecture that has both rendering from front and back. Somehow they meet and blend in just perfectly, lol.

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

3M trees at 60fps, got the lighting work correctly on slopes...next I need to make trees look more real #gamedev #indiedev

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@Hashgraphian Well, what can I say. It's first version. I'm already working on improving it.

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

Portrait of a tree visual #vss #vss365

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@BitOfGold Yes, exactly. But, also combined with Nanite-style geometry and global illumination. To be entirely honest, 0 overdraw is only for shading, I don't think nanite geometry can be 0 overdraw. But it still wins most performance in shading anyway. It's basically the Unreal engine.

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@SteinvarGame Not much. It is automatically using a 64km heightmap of actual place on earth including tree growth areas.

[Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes]

@zackontopx This is global raymarched illumination updating 4x4 squares whenever something moves (since 1:1 would probably slow it down but this is also a low end laptop, not a gaming PC...). But it's running on low resolution, generally it wouldn't be noticable in 4K.