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[ProgramGamer]

I feel like there's only one appropriate response to these beautiful gifs and screenshots:

[oahda]

Dang, "these hills sing" was difficult to make out, I had to look the quote up online to hear what he was saying. Thank you!

[JobLeonard]

This reminds me of a very specific level in Mario Sunshine

[SolS]

Wow this is looking very nice!

[oahda]

Wow this is looking very nice!

Thank you!!

This reminds me of a very specific level in Mario Sunshine

What level would that be? 0: Been a while since I played…

[oahda]

Some bonus techy stuff without all the words:

[nova++]

Good god that looks pretty.

[oahda]

  thank you!!!

[JobLeonard]

What level would that be? 0: Been a while since I played…

There is a beach level

Had to look up the name myself. Sirena Beach: the Manta Storm





EDIT: mind you, I have protanomaly so the colors are probably completely different to people who aren't color vision deficient :p

[oahda]

Oh, yeah! That one! No, the colours look quite similar to me as well! c:

[amasinton]

Thank you!!

The edge detection is all in one pass but it does require multiple texture samples. The effect is taking place in 2D space as an image filter basically, so it could be done with UI too but that might get messy.

Not too expensive so far!

I have GOT to get better with shaders.  It seems like all of the best stuff is done in shaders.  I saw some screenshots of a game that has no models or textures, just everything generated in shaders.  It seems like a skill worth picking up.  But where's the time?

Fantastic work, again.  Just lovely stuff.

[oahda]

Thanks again! Tech art has quickly become one of my favourite things ever since I got into it, so I keep trying to find excuses to learn more all the time, haha. So at least for me, I've been finding the time by sneaking it into any project I would be working on anyway, especially game jams.

[oahda]

Tiny update again that doesn't warrant a number. Played around some more with the clouds and got the skybox properly integrated with the painterly shader!



For fun I kind of matched the ImGui colours to the game. Here are my bazillion skybox parameters:

[fluffrabbit]

Wow. I tried something like this in Godot a few years ago and failed miserably. Inspired and intimidated.

[oahda]

Wow. I tried something like this in Godot a few years ago and failed miserably. Inspired and intimidated.

Not sure how to take the intimidated part haha But glad to inspire!

It's all very faked, really. It's a big infinite sphere around the world with a gradient wrapped around it and the sun placed where the directional light is pointing from (which is how it can sparkle on the water thanks to a specular calculation; there are no reflections going on yet), and the clouds are projected as if on an infinite plane and their colours are pulled from the same gradient as the sky, with yellow mapped to low alpha and purple mapped to high alpha!

[oahda]

I'm getting quite spammy here, but it was suggested to me that the sky probably shouldn't get as dark on the side opposite to the sun as it was, so I tried changing that, and I agree! Much better! Quite happy with this now. Should move on to something else.

[fluffrabbit]

It's all very faked, really. It's a big infinite sphere around the world with a gradient wrapped around it and the sun placed where the directional light is pointing from (which is how it can sparkle on the water thanks to a specular calculation; there are no reflections going on yet), and the clouds are projected as if on an infinite plane and their colours are pulled from the same gradient as the sky, with yellow mapped to low alpha and purple mapped to high alpha!

So it's shader uniforms rather than dynamic IBL. That would explain why it's not lagging. All that math in the shader, huh? No geometry for the cloud layer?

[oahda]

Yeah. I actually set the fog colour to whatever the sky is in that direction which is why it kind of looks like the sea is reflecting the colours of sky, but that's super fake too.

The clouds are actually rendered on that infinite sphere too with a bit of maths to distort it too look like a flat plane instead of the bowl that it is. It involved some initially scary maths that was eventually simplified to almost nothing in a hilarious moment yesterday~

[fluffrabbit]

Accounting for varying fog color is something I hadn't even considered. Sampling using some kind of spherical distance I see. I'll have to work this into my own engine. Thanks :D

[oahda]

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Moon and snow

The moon has joined the sun and snow is falling! Sorry, another graphical update with no new work done on gameplay, but it's very therapeutic for me to work on…



It's a little broken right now because the topology of the geometry needs to be done a certain way for the snow shader to work well and I haven't gone through the entire level to fix it. But not too bad!

Stills:





Here's a timelapse of the updated skysphere from before I added the snow:



A timelapse of snow piling up:



Bonus

The freshly added particle system basically just takes a regular renderable of any kind and issues a bunch of draw calls, so particles don't have to be sprites, but can be fully rendered 3D objects with shadows and piles of snow and all…