.. other than for a single frame before the mesh extrusion

Now I do the mesh extrusion by hand so it's much cleaner, faster and flexible (I'm already doing stuff that I couldn't with the splines API)

I was already using a list of the points (the one visualized with the gizmos on the first post) which I then converted to multiple splines with Unity's system and used the built-in spline extrude API to generate the mesh

This was hella slow and redundant as I wasn't using the splines for anything..

It's *unnecessarily* fun
I was kinda thinking of how could it'd be to have something like geometry nodes in unity, but just writing the code is awesome too

And brute-forcing the mesh generation is awesome, shader-wise because that way

Thanks Luke! I'm not too happy about the implementation just yet, so when I make it good I'll probably share more :P

Thanks! ✨

That was already said when he knowingly joined BasedCon as a speaker

Different link to avoid the hellsite:

The larger part is pretty much explained by Tommaso's tweet here:

x.com/TommasoRoman...

I was a bit intimidated by this at first, but it's all just a bunch of raycasts and branching and being careful not to overflow your stack 🙃

Thanks! I guess the idea would be to convert it into a mesh (shown on next post) and scatter points on that to generate quads for the leaves. This is all an offline process, so I don't care for the performance of the process 😅

Damn, the splines package is really cool for this sort of thing, it was super easy to extrude a nice mesh out of this mess 👀

Given how fun this already is, I'm like, 50% done on a silly string thrower simulator

Yup, this is in a transparent lit shader made with shader graph; it's true there's no final color, so the blending is a bit hacky (turning albedo black, smoothness and AO to 0 and lerping emission to fog color)

Thanks! No nothing like that, I just compose the fog before rendering transparent objects and I'm just sampling the fog separately on the transparent shader to apply it 😅

Aww thanks Fede, I'm really happy to hear you're having fun with it! :D