Tessera

Keilthar@keilthar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

To give you an idea of the scale: - Time: 4 days to implement (between 35 and 40 hours of work) - Number of lines of code: ~4000: * 1000 to handle keyboard/controller inputs + network transmissions * 2500 for server-side calculations + client-side modeling * 500 for bundle creation 1/7

Floor editing tool overhaul: in addition to the free sculpting mode, it now allows you to import any 3D shape and use it as a brush to sculpt the floor, even that good old Suzanne from #blender ! #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx #b3d

Keilthar@keilthar.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Floor editing tool overhaul: in addition to the free sculpting mode, it now allows you to import any 3D shape and use it as a brush to sculpt the floor, even that good old Suzanne from #blender ! #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx #b3d

Hop, 4 clients + 1 server on the same machine, with a ground editor handling ground chunk data on the fly, distributed to clients that only handle the visuals (mesh editing), with decent FPS. 🥰 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

Hop, 4 clients + 1 server on the same machine, with a ground editor handling ground chunk data on the fly, distributed to clients that only handle the visuals (mesh editing), with decent FPS. 🥰 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

Keilthar @keilthar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Technical showcase of what I do with Unity. There's a lot missing : it's quite recently that I've felt comfortable enough to film what I create and share it. Imposter syndrome / 20. 🫤 Youtube link : youtu.be/hilybD14InA #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

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Creating a real-time drag-and-drop system in an online multiplayer game is quite a challenge! Just look at this architecture diagram... 😭 (And then there's all the data behind it, with the Tick IDs, Session IDs, and the last state to retain...) #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #gamedev

Keilthar @keilthar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I started a DevBlog ! keilthar.github.io/devlog/en/ Already 2 articles are available : - Introduction to ECS concept keilthar.github.io/devlog/en/EC... - Project Management via Obsidian and AI keilthar.github.io/devlog/en/To... #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

Keilthar @keilthar.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Just make it exists first, you make it good later" 50k undeads, chasing 15 targets, using a flowfield navigation system, across a 500m x 500m map, with ~180k decors, rendered via Unity ECS/DOTS + VATs. 1/2 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #vfx

OK so it was not a culling issue, but a CPU bottleneck ! Now at close range the simulation runs smoothly. With the introduction of VATs, I lost the auto-LOD, so now the GPU is struggling when too much units are in FOV. 😅 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

OK so it was not a culling issue, but a CPU bottleneck ! Now at close range the simulation runs smoothly. With the introduction of VATs, I lost the auto-LOD, so now the GPU is struggling when too much units are in FOV. 😅 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

They are billions ! (not really but it's a nice game I recommend) 100k VATs moved by Unity ECS with a flow field, on a 500x500m map, at 30+ FPS ! 🤪 But I suspect a culling issue (FPS does not increase when zooming in) #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

I didn't expect at all to go this far with this christmas side project... And now I am totally thinking of rebuilding my own game around this tech and it changes everything how I would design it. 🙃

They are billions ! (not really but it's a nice game I recommend) 100k VATs moved by Unity ECS with a flow field, on a 500x500m map, at 30+ FPS ! 🤪 But I suspect a culling issue (FPS does not increase when zooming in) #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

They are billions ! (not really but it's a nice game I recommend) 100k VATs moved by Unity ECS with a flow field, on a 500x500m map, at 30+ FPS ! 🤪 But I suspect a culling issue (FPS does not increase when zooming in) #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

As expected using 3D models with animator massively decrease perfs (no LODs here, but that will not solve the issue). The most optimal approach would be to use VATs, but I never implemented it until now. 😅 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

Starting to look at how to implement VATs on Unity and like every new topic I start studying, this meme is kicking hard 😅 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

As expected using 3D models with animator massively decrease perfs (no LODs here, but that will not solve the issue). The most optimal approach would be to use VATs, but I never implemented it until now. 😅 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

As expected using 3D models with animator massively decrease perfs (no LODs here, but that will not solve the issue). The most optimal approach would be to use VATs, but I never implemented it until now. 😅 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

50k units with avoidance ! 👀 That's funny, because adding avoidance improves performances, making a lot of the units waiting their turn to move (to display 100k units, I would need a far bigger map to spread them) #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

50k units with avoidance ! 👀 That's funny, because adding avoidance improves performances, making a lot of the units waiting their turn to move (to display 100k units, I would need a far bigger map to spread them) #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

100k units moving each frame, attempting to reach the nearest target out of 10 (at center of each green areas), through obstacles (white blocks), using ECS and a flow field composed of 90k cells on a 300x300m map. #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

100k units moving each frame, attempting to reach the nearest target out of 10 (at center of each green areas), through obstacles (white blocks), using ECS and a flow field composed of 90k cells on a 300x300m map. #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev

Fully functional resizing system ! It's a little sluggish with such a large area (+100 FPS for 70k sheets, which is still acceptable). But I'll limit the size of the areas eventually, so it's not a concern. 😋 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

First prototype to modify the shape of leaf zones and validate performance live. Calculations via ECS + GPU batching, it'll spawn tens of thousands of leaves for breakfast ! 😎 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

I made a rework into a system of zones delimited by splines, far better for level design. No more tedious grids to manage ! Leaves can be moved out of zones and return once the animation is finished. 🥰 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

You have no idea how lucky you are not to know what a quaternion is, and how much of a pain it is to rotate objects in 3D space... 🙃

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I have my continuous wind effect. However, performance-wise it's terrible... I'll have to brainstorm on my architecture to find a solution (hashmaps are cool, but I can't randomily pick a leaf in them) 🧐 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vf

Because it's that time of the year... 🎶 All I want for Christmas is flying glowing leaves 🎶 Now you've got it stuck in your head, I'm off ! 😏 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

Keilthar@keilthar.bsky.social · 8mo ago

And if I set the tornado's rotation speed to 0, I can generate a kind of underground explosion effect or an antigravity well effect depending on how long I hold it. It's just so cool. 😱 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

Hello little tornado ! And my system lets me chain effects together seamlessly. Anyway, I'm having way too much fun developing this VFX ! Why play games when you can make them ! 🥰 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

Hello little tornado ! And my system lets me chain effects together seamlessly. Anyway, I'm having way too much fun developing this VFX ! Why play games when you can make them ! 🥰 #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx

Keilthar@keilthar.bsky.social · 8mo ago

So, here's what I completely reworked: - an automated spawn system around the player, adaptable based on performance (before, it was a fixed spawn point across the entire map) - dynamic grid management using HashMaps, automatically reassigned when the leaves move 1/3

Well, I don't think I could do any better in terms of performance, and I'm going a bit overboard with the leaves quantity and their speed. 😅 I have systems for attraction/expulsion. Next up will be a vortex and a wind system ! #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev #madewithunity #unity #gamedev #vfx