unto_ether

Ignore recent dms, tragically I was hacked in the year of our lord 2026

[unto_ether @unto_ether]

Just released a playtest version of my first published DND oneshot! Check it out here: https://t.co/S7NngCG5Rj

If you're looking for a mystery set in a fantastical imagining of a Lousianna bayou, complete with beignets and gumbo, you found it!

#dnd #oneshot

[Analog Dream Dev @AnalogDreamDev]

Everything far away in a game engine can feel small, flat, and washed out. That is correct perspective, but it can make for some poor scenery sometimes.

Two features I've added to my engine try to fight against that:

Spatial Recession magnifies the distance. After a vertex is projected I push its screen position outward from center. Near geometry is untouched. It only moves x and y, never depth, so nothing sorts differently and nothing z-fights. The result is a long lens bolted onto the far half of a wide one: the tower and the ridgeline loom instead of receding, while I keep the wide field of view I actually play in (FOV is identical in both of these examples).

Dimensional Falloff is four distance ramps on the surface itself. Lighting contrast flattens so distant hills stop having a hard lit side and a hard dark side, which is what haze does in real life. Color then desaturates toward its own brightness to fake more distance. Then that desaturated color is pushed, and that is the one doing most of the visible work here. Last is texture detail, with a custom MIP value based on distances.

All of it keys off real radial distance from the camera rather than depth This is so it stays put when you turn your head.

Performance cost is next to nothing. The recession is two lines in the vertex shader. The falloff is a few lerps at the end of the pixel shader, which was already computing that distance for the mip bias anyway.

Quite happy with the results, what do you think?

#gamedev

[BartekDev @BartekK349090]

A quick breakdown/tutorial of how I do sprite stacking for my game.

#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev #godotengine

[木佐貫洋平 プロカリンバ奏者 @LimbaTrip]

今日のカリンバ
これもエフェクト無しでコーラスっぽい音を出してます。
※全部カリンバの音です。

[unto_ether @unto_ether]

@thisislux SomeBODY

[outside five sigma @jwt0625]

you've joked about a spherical cow, but have you thought about higher multipoles of a cow, thus the tetrahexacontapole cow, and the octacosahectapole cow?

(figure showing 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128-pole cow, and the full cow)

[allsee @allsee]

sharing a cool game every day until I can talk about mine:
fly around as a divine warrior in Valkyrie Saga, a retro indie platformer with big PSX aesthetics

[JankyAnims @jankyanims]

Heya, took a small break. Here's a quick vid of first iteration of some new anims I'm working on, still some JANK to iron out but they're feelin pretty good!

Spot the Tomb Raider reference...

[VIKARE @vikare06]

Btw, in case you are wondering, the graphics were actually mostly vector graphics which were then directly digital laser printed on the 35mm film, which is why we don't have surviving animation cells of those interfaces.
The warm glow you see in all the old interfaces comes from the exposure on the 35mm film.

[unto_ether @unto_ether]

@nocontextmemes Genis casting meteor storm

[latke @latkedelrey]

elizabeth holmes daring bryan johnson to castrate himself on the tl

[Samantha Toeman - MUDBIRD Sep 02 @burrowbling]

My new (free!) video game RADIO FARM comes out tomorrow. Here is the trailer.

[𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨 @_ArtMuseum]

The Knight of the Flowers, by Georges Rochegrosse (1894)

[doomer @uncledoomer]

mee maw loves her present

[Dersu @tak3sh8]

5 species fighting each others, rock-paper-scissor type dynamics!

[unto_ether @unto_ether]

@thisislux A bouquet of flowers at every scale 💐

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

This is my Super Bowl

[unto_ether @unto_ether]

@bryan_johnson https://t.co/A1tbYNek6m

We may have different world views, Mr. Immortal Man, but I appreciate the open mind with which you’re approaching this.

[Mick Mangles @itsyaboidougie]

they invented a new genre called "Slurmcore" where they take music, pitch it down, and speed it up, not by compressing the sound, but truncating each beat.
its... something.

(vid by Dopektra on YT)