Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

pictures aren't mine I only take them Joined October 2012

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

29 minutes ago

@Alphie_11 Well, they can be part of the same nature rendering engine. But from then on out they would branch out into two separate games.

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

a hour ago

I'm convering my nanite 3d renderer to 0 overdraw via GPU compute shaders so it runs at 60FPS regardless if there are billions of triangles. Then I'm going to make the game...

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

5 hours ago

I let AI use my graphics engine to go "snap photos of some mountains". No other instructions were given. #gamedev #indiedev

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

11 hours ago

@katsgamedev Well, if a leaf is close to the camera, it will block rendering for thousands of others behind it.

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

11 hours ago

@Phoneeeeeeee3e One time I was looking for a mountainside texture and by mistake applied a marble kitchen counter pattern.

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

11 hours ago

@JacksAISites But then you no longer depend on unreal or unity...

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

11 hours ago

@katsgamedev lol it is already doing that...

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

12 hours ago

@danjaye_ thank u

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

12 hours ago

@imdvdev no its my own graphics engine

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

12 hours ago

@katsgamedev yeah

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

19 hours ago

@The1Broom Exactly, you always reallocate resources toward what's closer to you, whatever it is. Some very distant trees can be literally just 1 pixel lol.

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@TheFinalRecord Here on this post you will see actual 3d leaves, It doesn't matter if they were trees, it'd still work fast because geometry would be same complexity as a single leaf. And you can see how many leaves there already are. x.com/gregsometimes/…

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

19 hours ago

@TheFinalRecord There can be 100K+ trees in the world and it will still be fast. Because each leaf in the 2nd post on that thread is already similar to a whole tree geometry by itself.

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

19 hours ago

@TheFinalRecord Alpha blended pixels on 100K+ cards are the worst enemy of GPUs. Each leaf is actual 3d geometry. Meaning, it's a mesh going around edges of the leaf itself. The engine is designed to work faster than instanced billboards on more complex 3d geometry. Especially in 4K res.

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

19 hours ago

When I say...infinite leaves...I don't mean there are billions of leaves being processed at the same time. But that it will render all leaves that are visible on the screen at any one time and still remain at 60fps.

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

19 hours ago

@sneaaaacker Well, it's nanite-like (what unreal uses) algorithm running in software on the GPU, it's pretty fast.

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

21 hours ago

@The1Broom Both, it's basically similar to unreal's nanite.

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

23 hours ago

@Phoneeeeeeee3e Have you tried making fast raymarched light yet?

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Greg Sometimes @gregsometimes

a day ago

@fridaypit And yes this isn't even on a gaming PC (where it would truly be infinite) it's on a somewhat subpar laptop by todays standards right now, lol.