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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I think the main thing I’ve used local to scene is for assigning viewport textures in editor

R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 10h

Maybe some way to blend multiple rotations that would be impossible with bones?

Masking the rotation per-vertex based on a transition property?

R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 10h

This is one of those things where I’ve done a basic tech demo in Godot to rotate vertices in the shader but I haven’t figured out a scenario to show why I’m doing it this way instead of skinning to a bone and rotating that.

Fabrizio Espindola @fabrizioespindola.bsky.social · 16h

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untalkative bunny frames @untalkativebunny.drunu.be · 1d

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 1d

Starting to get somewhere

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 1d

So I was trying parallax offset for a gem shader in Godot but it relies on the tangent so I had to learn how to make it calculate tangent in my gem mesh generator.

And I need to go through the UVs and make the scale match. My previous gem shader wasn’t using uv so I hadn’t paid attention before.

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm. Potential?

Chef visible through hole again but the hole is bayer dithered and many are white along the edges

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 2d

Tweaking the hole shader so edges of the hole are shaded.

This reads better when there’s a wall of the same colour behind it.

A cartoon chef standing behind a hole in the wall.

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 4d

Okay made a peephole in Godot.

It renders four cameras and displays that like a cubemap in the peephole shader to get the fisheye look.

At first I tried to get that down to three cameras but that doesn’t actually cover a wide enough angle.

View of a cartoon chef walking by the view of a peephole

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 5d

What do you not understand

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 6d

Any ideas on getting it to work with concave shapes? I was playing with this for shadows but ran into that limitation.

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 9d

More dithering tests in Godot

Christopher Lee as Dracula dithered into a green and black and white palette

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, looking into it there isn’t updates since 2022 so I don’t know if it’s going to work with recent versions of Unity or if there’s a better choice now.

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 12d

Have you looked into Fungus? You can lean on Fungus for a lot of the VN function but still have the rest of Unity if you need to go outside that.

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 12d

Someone should hire me to write goofy shaders in Godot

Godot shader portfolio

YouTube video by r hill

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 15d

Dithering tests

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 16d

Made an opaque version of my 3d texture raycast shader but my test texture demonstrates the value of having a better way to generate the texture

R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 17d

“Cut to the chase: are there beans there?”

R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 19d

Realized this while I was fixing it to properly receive shadows.

Sphere and cube are friends and the cube is casting a shadow on the sphere

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 19d

I just realized how I could use the fake depth techniques from this Godot shader for a Resident Evil style pre-rendered background if you also pre-render a depth map.

R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · Sep 7

Okay dumb shader trick in Godot. Looks like two spheres with a pole running through them. But one sphere is a quad.

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 21d

For five months YouTube has been putting me through some sort of verification that it claims takes “about two months”

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 22d

I remember once layering in After Effects, to get an average I had each layer with opacity divided by number of layers beneath it.

100% 50% 33.3% 25% 20% 16.6% etc

So if all the voxels are equal transparency the closest to the camera has the strongest effect on the colour

R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 22d

And the ray marching lets you mathematically tweak how it combines the transparency. This one is average everything the ray passes through which is unrealistic but keeps the rear voxels easy to see.

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 23d

Making tool scripts for generating 3D textures which the ray marching shader I made is good for visualizing

This tool combines a 2D texture plus a gradient. I’ll add blend modes and rotation maybe

Fuzzy transparent cube rendered in Godot

Apply2DTexture inspector in Godot engine with a Source Texture and Gradient parameter. The gradient fades from transparent to white.

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R H @flinflonimation.bsky.social · 26d

Okay I’ve fixed some stuff that was bothering me in the raymarch version and the transparency shows the back clearly.

My goal is to paint the 3D texture in VR so this is the display. I might set an option to switch between versions because it could be useful see the more hollow voxels sometimes

Two coloured gradient cubes rendered in Godot

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