Bah, First they said, "Don't draw." Then it was, "Don't code." Now it's, "Don't read books." What's next ~ don't think? 🤭

How true ? Fun and Gameplay Come First: If a game is engaging, runs smoothly, and offers a good experience, most average players do not mind what tools were used to make background textures or minor items. #GameDev #IndieDev #Ai #Gaming

When I finally reveal my secret RTS gameplay and style, the entire gaming industry might need a reboot! Coz it'll disrupt the gaming industry! Juz kiddin, but aspiring gamedevs like me need this level of confidence… and maybe a little bit of madness. 🤭 #Gamedev #IndieDev #Gaming

I'm deving my Network Manager in C# and wanted to get some thoughts if TCP is suitable for an RTS. It's always valuable to hear insights from someone in the industry who's willing to share their knowledge and experience. Since R is public, I thought I'd share this here. #GameDev #IndieDev

I might use AI for programmer art or content assets since I'm not an artist,mainly to make my prototypes look better, I can replace it later with human talent anyway. But I won't use vibe coding for my game or engine,I'll be writing the code myself, not against anyone who uses it, tho. #GameDev

Stay a while and listen! Another cool tool for gamedev from the legend Erin Catto, pushing Box3D to the limit. When I have some free time, I'll P/Invoke this library for my C#/Vulkan mini engine or create a wrapper 💃

Erin Catto@erincatto.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pushing Box3D to the limit. A pyramid with 16290 boxes. Stabilized by contact recycling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG4H...

Later, I'll delete all my gaming-related posts. I think it's better to keep this account focused on game development content only. 😄

While tweaking some variables in my default shader, I accidentally created this result. Now I'd like to expose it as an effect parameter ~ a kind of luminance threshold and grayscale, but "without" doing some post-processing. 💃 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #PureCSharp #DotNet

E'm in the process of implementing bloom but can't decide which approach is better: Using a separate glow mesh or relying solely on emissive maps to drive the bloom effect. I think I'll need to do a bit more research on the subject 🤔💃 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp #DotNet

Got the shininess settings I wanted for my PBR implementation. It took a bit of tweaking, but e'm really happy with how it's looking at the moment 💃 Still room for improvement! 😊 Credit : Boots model from SF, CCA #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #PureCSharp #DotNet

WIP Integrated ORM map feature💃but still need to choose which texture channel is used by the artist 🎨for each map. It would need a controls for adjusting the intensity or influence of each channel color.🧮 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #PureCSharp #DotNet

✨ Fixing my TBN for my PBR to make the shading look much more natural. Still tweaking it, but I'm really happy with the results so far! 💖 Playing with Master Chief model while waiting for Halo evolved 🎮 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #PureCSharp #DotNet

My WIP PBR said,"Trust the process."💖✨All the essential maps are showing, the final color is still on its villain arc. We'll fix her later ~ today we're celebrating the small wins.💅🎉 It's Halo! Master Chief!🤭 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #PBR #Vulkan #PureCSharp #DotNet

Nothing much today, just having fun tweaking my height map settings and trying out different values to see what works 💃 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #PureCSharp

Nooo, e'm not procrastinating 😭💅 e'm just having a tiny existential crisis trying to implement PBR. Like, seriously... how many maps are enough? At this point I'm collecting maps like they're Pokémon. ✨ WIP ~ Not all maps are working yet 😅 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp

Busy refactoring my workflow🥲 Instead of stuffing an object data to limited size push constants, I now push only world matrix n related indices and fetch the actual data from a storage buffer. Cleaner, scalable, more future-prof for PBR data etc💃 #GraphicsCoding #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp

Alright bestie,🥰 it seems like 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗫 𝗫𝗜𝗻𝗽𝘂𝘁 is actually super easy to use in C# with my 𝗫𝗕𝗢𝗫 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿. 🎮 She connected, she slayed, she understood the assignment. ✨💃 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #GamePad #Vulkan #CSharp #DotNet

Yes, yes this time around, I'm really making a game out of my Vulkan C# mini-engine, Inspired by the Retro Game Background music from Irem 🕹️ If you know the game, you know 🎮 this will be a long journey 💃 #GameDev #IndieDev #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #CSharp #DotNet

Now let’s redo the party!💃This time around, the animated models received all the available lighting effects: Env. lights, Diffuse, Directional, Omni, Point, and Spot lights. They also received shadows, self-shadows, and fog.🥳 #GraphicsProgramming #Gamedev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

Handling animated meshes is really a pain, all of my previous posts didn't receive lights outside of the environment, also why the f* HLSL doesn't have an inverse function! lol, nywayz it's working now with exaggerated light colors to test 💃 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp

Computing bone animations is costly. I tested multiple models with different animations, and there was still no cost on the main thread since the model animations are computed on another thread. 💃 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #DotNet #CSharp

Anyway, just a quick update~after months of trying, I finally got this running on a Mali-GPU Tablet. 💃 Dealing with Vulkan on Mali has been challenging, at least on my end.😐 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #MaliTablet #CSharp #DotNet

Yay! Lights💡are now in SSBO. She’s handling only light data and no longer messing with the environment and camera UBOs anymore. Unli-lights for forward rendering. Some spot, omni, and directional lights for this test. 💃 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

Crunch time. Coz I just switched my light data from a fixed array in the uniform to a storage buffer for unlimited lights, and boom~no lights 😑🤔 this may take a while to work 😢 #GraphicsProgramming #Vulkan #GameDev #IndieDev #CSharp

I’m honestly obsessed with what just a simple two-texture map can do ~ like, give me a base color and a normal map, and suddenly everything looks so much more alive. It’s giving min effort, max impact energy✨ #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp #DotNet #MarcusFenix

The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group has launched an Education, Insights, and Outreach (EIO) Subgroup to help developers and creators get the most from #glTF and #KTX — closing the gap between specification and real-world practice. www.khronos.org/blog/from-sp... #Khronos #OpenStandards

From Specification to Practice: Unlocking glTF’s Full Potential

The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group, which manages both the glTF and KTX standards, has launched an Education, Insights, and Outreach (EIO) Subgroup dedicated to equipping creators and developers wit...

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I’ve been working on this basic effect, and OMG I just realized the normal wasn’t even working until now 😭 this hangar has sooo many details, geez ✨ #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp #NoVideCode

Satisfied!💃of adding full control over front and back shadows~ being able to make them subtle or adjust them using subtract or multiply modes. There’s still no PBR yet, just Albedo and Normal maps w/ max sampling of 8. #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #CSharp #NoVibeCode

This is a nice mesh to test for PBR. There’s no PBR applied yet~this uses only base color and normal maps. Credit to Kerem Kavalci on SF, who was very generous in allowing others to use his 3D mesh under a very liberal license. 💃 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp

Had some free time today to fix self-shadowing. 💃Shadow mapping gets pretty crazy with multi-sampling enabled ~ needs a lot of tweaking, at least on my end. 😐 #GraphicsProgramming #GameDev #IndieDev #Vulkan #DotNet #CSharp