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multiplayer networking, game engines, MMORPG design. wgpu + js

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Having some time over christmas to work on my odin + webgpu "light transport" toy.
- Added texture rendering support (only one tile for now)
- Added ability to paint light emitters onto block surfaces

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Enabled smoothing across vertices, as well as actually properly picking up the surface colors - also added ability to play around with some bounce values.

Made with odin, fun project to implement

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@wintrjen Pberg unlike Hamburg imo

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@valigo An insult to the people

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@davidkaye I rarely hear discussed how a similar thing happend when unity and unreal became available. From an oldschoolers perspective, people were now able to make games with less effort, and certain types of developers were no longer needed.

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@SebAaltonen @a_meta4 eh, bit of a big stunt just for a demo.

they are building this as assistant driving technology on moon/mars where they dont have roads. @elonmusk confirm?

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@threejs https://t.co/h5JcGhFOtD lmaooo

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drive forever (c / wasm test)

https://t.co/eiBnKgpBvS

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@tufDev @elonmusk the speed at which they did that, too.. incredible...

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I cant believe @elonmusk and I agree this much on assisted driving technology on mars.

(press the R / flip button)

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drive forever (c / wasm test)

https://t.co/eiBnKgpBvS

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I've gone from agreeing with the camp of "this will never produce anything truly good" to "you can actually use this incrementally in your old workflow". The productivity gains are nowhere near as fast as some people might make you believe, though.

I understand the naysayers nowadays trying to protect their sourcecode. At the same time, implying that if you are someone who produces "good things" that are above the AI-slop you *never have any work on the computer that doesnt need verification* is also insane. you can just use AI to do supplementary throwaway work where you benefit from the results and still use those in your verifiable process. Game developers have always been "prototyping" before making the real thing, well, you can now prototype 10x faster, which is at least something.

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@jaivin cool presentation man, i like it. do you have an avg session time btw?

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@AshConnell yee for sure. featurecreeping stuff is easier than ever now

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drive forever (c / wasm test)

https://t.co/eiBnKgpBvS

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@AshConnell did the coords thing btw! also tried the multiplayer stuff but wasnt feeling it too much, nice to see others but ultimately its probably against the core essence (just driving around and relaxing). felt like i spent more time thinking about social dynamics at that point.

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@kuberdenis hahahahha im dying at this

bro choking it with the hoodie in, not helping

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@MichaeICheckum @FranVidiCheck niiicee

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@ahmetmertugrul "liquid lights" by musinova

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@gabamnml cheers :)

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@MichaeICheckum nice ideas, was actually also thinking about missions. i am currently testing multiplayer but personally am not so in love with it - because its not really what i made it for in the first place (a game to relax to) but the other ideas also sound great :)

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@ilarisilander it can be quite the soothing game
!

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@LiveFromVR effectively, yeah. i havent really tested the bounds, probably precision loss

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@sharno3 hey man, the R button can keep you afloat and stay in the direction, does it work for you, or still annoying?

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@_bryantmejia Not planning to open source it atm sorry.