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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 1h

Ten years ago today.

Tweet that reads: 'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 1h

Sincerity and warmth of depicted emotions
(also they're cute)

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 2h

I had an impulse to see if I could make a basic hair shader that doesn't require any specially made meshes or textures. Came up with this modification of the Unity Standard shader.

The shapes below are just standard Unity spheres and capsules and only a simple normal map is used; no other textures.

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3h

Ngl, pretending I'm just walking through the forest in my game feels really cool. Maybe I do need a first-person mode after all...

#indiegames #gamedev #indiedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 3h

Nah, they do some crazy (patented) exact pixel-bezier intersections in the shader or smth like that

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6h

See bsky.app/profile/lisy...

Also I'm planning to tie the clouds with some rudimentary weather simulation, which makes it weird to be able to move them by hand

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

It's not about not being able to see some particular object or place - you can just zoom in or move the camera a bit and voila, you see it. It's about obstructing the view as a whole, like looking through a mosquito net

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6h

See bsky.app/profile/lisy...

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

I really don't want to mess with transparency
Also it doesn't solve the issue - it will still interfere with the view, just in a transparent way

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6h

That's exactly what I'm doing rn!

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6h

See bsky.app/profile/lisy...

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

It's not about not being able to see some particular object or place - you can just zoom in or move the camera a bit and voila, you see it. It's about obstructing the view as a whole, like looking through a mosquito net

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 6h

Hmm, this does help somewhat, but now the clouds are harder to see from the ground (the camera can't look up much)

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

See bsky.app/profile/lisy...

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

I really don't want to mess with transparency
Also it doesn't solve the issue - it will still interfere with the view, just in a transparent way

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

I really don't want to mess with transparency
Also it doesn't solve the issue - it will still interfere with the view, just in a transparent way

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

See bsky.app/profile/lisy...

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

It's not about not being able to see some particular object or place - you can just zoom in or move the camera a bit and voila, you see it. It's about obstructing the view as a whole, like looking through a mosquito net

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

It's not about not being able to see some particular object or place - you can just zoom in or move the camera a bit and voila, you see it. It's about obstructing the view as a whole, like looking through a mosquito net

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 7h

I like how the clouds look in my game, but they severely obstruct the ground view when looking from above the clouds 😓 Adding a "show/hide clouds" UI button seems like a very crude solution.

#indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 8h

Btw this relies a lot on using a calling convention where the caller (i.e. not the callee) cleans up the stack after the call

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 9h

With anisotropic filtering you can pretty much get away with just SDF/MSDF text

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 1d

Slug is absolutely an overkill expect if you're an AAA studio

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 1d

Life goals: met a mate in a bar to sketch a shader he needed

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 2d

Prototyping a generic extensible system for entity spawning. Each entity type declares some slope/noise/etc (later - climate also) value ranges where it can spawn. Just trees for now, and it's not wired to the distant forests mesh yet.

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 2d

On second though, probably I'm just not that famous lmao 😅

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 2d

Idk what I'm doing wrong but I get basically 0 negativity/reply guys on both platforms!

The bird site though...

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 2d

Yaaaay

Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 2d

Ngl she's got a ton of charm!

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Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 2d

That's SO MUCH more work that I'll absolutely never do it!