the matrix was a documentary
Managed to get a good deal of work done while my internet was down for almost a week (it’s always something else). Just fixing bugs, and things that were half-working, so research was not required. Pretty amazing what you can accomplish just reading headers and with IDE auto-complete
Trying to validate and finalize all the shaders on my GL project. Still a bunch of editor features left to do, but the graphics are where I want so will just need to work on the boring stuff now and optimize. Brought back the old skin shader (screen-space
New demo showcasing a higher quality model with improved image-based lighting. Using spherical harmonics here (SH2), which I had from the beginning, but added automatic dominant light extraction when loading an HDRI image. This detects the sunlight, ambient environment lighting, and controls the shadowing. So basically everything in
Really happy to be a part of the 2025 edition of GP-Direct, a compilation of around 20 different “from scratch” 3D engines made by people from the graphics programming community. I submitted my Degine graphics demo as part of this, and also designed the YouTube thumbnail. Super stoked
Got together a new demo video for Degine, my custom OpenGL 3D game engine, showcasing the current state of the graphics. This 1 minute clip is my submission for the GP-Direct 2025 compilation, with a few dozen other indie game developers and graphics programmers. Stuck a peak at
Made this long-ass developer update for my OpenGL engine, Degine. Lots of info in the video, but I’m working on the character animation mostly and fixing bugs with stuff that was mocked up before. Graphics are in a good place (aside from the glitches), need to flesh out
Made a new concept visual for my untitled debut game from Outmode on my OpenGL/WebGL engine, Degine. Generated using Midjourney 7, this is fairly close to my vision, and also matches the art for the game that was already completed. Planning on using this as a test to
Been researching real-time indirect lighting and global illumination techniques recently, and was most interested in simpler methods that did not require extensive pre-computation steps. Evaluating indirect light in screen space is an obvious choice here, since it can be fully dynamic, and the performance cost is essentially fixed
So I decided to throw together some concept art for an idea I’ve had for a bit. Put this together with Midjourney, and it actually came out pretty close to what I had in my mind (well, much better). Was planning on publishing a smaller game with my
Quick update on Degine, my in-house OpenGL engine. Most of the shaders were finished a few months ago, though I’ve been working on various optimizations behind the scenes. Performance is quite stable, at least on high-end desktop, right now (watch the embedded video). Still needs some work on
