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@Nikita Lisitsa

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I teach C++ & computer graphics and make videogames

Working on a medieval village building game: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSGI94QoFYJwGaieAkqw5_qfoupdppxHN&cbrd=1

Check out my cozy traffic simulator: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2403100/Costa_Verde_Transport_Department/

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Lesley Lai · 4d
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@nprofile1q... Hmm, for tessellation and geometry I think the modern advise is to implement them using compute anyway. Bindless is missing, but I don't teach bindless in OpenGL either 😅 Though afaik there's some effort in standardazing it in wgpu as well.
Lesley Lai · 4d
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#graphics folks, I'm thinking of modernizing my undergrad real-time graphics course and move it from OpenGL. Vulkan is too hardcore for an introductory course, Metal & DX12 are not cross-platform enough.

Wdyt, how deranged is it to use native WebGPU?

(maybe even in rust via wgpu)
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Lesley Lai · 4d
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First tests with an actual rain effect, by rendering camera-parallel planes with a moving texture. Looks fine in close-up, but the planes aren't distributed perfectly, and the intensity is a bit too strong when looking from far away.

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Improved river height interpolation using cubic splines, fixed some weirdness on river banks & deltas. Still hunting a few remaining discontinuities...

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Tom Forsyth · 1w
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By popular demand, figured how to properly put the sandy river banks (aka point bars) on the correct (inward) side of the river! Now the meandering looks even more realistic with no actual simulation 😎

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Tom Forsyth · 2w
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Made the rivers use circular arcs instead of straight line segments. Ngl, they look insanely cool now 🤩

River crossings/mergings are extremely hard to get right, though 😅

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