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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · 19h

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Learn real-time 3D from an industry veteran. From fundamentals to advanced GPU techniques, build projects that perform, scale, and stand out.

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · 19h

🔔 Quizzes are live now! Integrated right into each lesson and covering all #gamedev and #threejs sections. These will count toward your completion certificate when it launches.

It's been a while, but homework and tests were the best part of school, right? 😅

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 3d

Almost done updating my Graveyard Kit, I've remade every single 3D model in this #gameassets pack. It'll release (probably!) near the end of the week, free for everyone and can be used for any purpose.

Thank you for all your support all these years! ✨

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mrdoob @mrdoob.com · 9d

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · 11d

Check out the site:

simondev.io/lessons/shad...

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Learn real-time 3D from an industry veteran. From fundamentals to advanced GPU techniques, build projects that perform, scale, and stand out.

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · 11d

🔔 Site update: new SimonDev site is super functional and getting better.

Latest addition: integrated shader homework - edit GLSL in-browser and match target output. It’s a polished evolution of my 2023 GLSL site.

Reminder, teachable students can access same content (and more)

Link below 👇

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yhutter.bsky.social @yhutter.bsky.social · Aug 23

Recreated my game jam entry in C using @flohofwoe.bsky.social's awesome Sokol graphics library. It was a great learning experience! Implemented camera movement and various tweaks using imgui. Lighting based on @simondev.bsky.social's GLSL course.
Link: github.com/yhutter/soko...

#c #sokol #gamedev

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Jul 8

Yep, recording that this week (hopefully)

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Jul 2

Hah that's what they're there for! So when's v2 come out?

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Jul 2

Between heatwaves and summer camps, getting back to adding to the gamedev course heh. Shot from an upcoming section explaining spatial hash grids, and other acceleration structures.

#threejs #gamedev

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Jul 2

They look great, you generating these?

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Jul 2

Stunning

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Xor @xordev.com · Jul 2

"Phosphor"
for(float i,z,d;i++<8e1;o+=(cos(d/.1+vec4(0,2,4,0))+1.)/d*z){vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a=normalize(cos(vec3(4,2,0)+t-d*8.));p.z+=5.,a=a*dot(a,p)-cross(a,p);for(d=1.;d++<9.;)a+=sin(a*d+t).yzx/d;z+=d=.05*abs(length(p)-3.)+.04*abs(a.y);}o=tanh(o/1e4);

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Jun 18

Putting together a boids and flocking section!

#threejs #gamedevelopment

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Jun 11

A little followup to the last section: If you understand heuristics and admissibility, you can tweak A* to run much faster! If you're willing to sacrifice perfection, faster still.

Learn about it in my latest section on graph traversal.

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Xor @xordev.com · Jun 11

"String Theory"
for(float i,z=fract(dot(FC,sin(FC))),d;i++<1e2;){vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy);p.z+=9.;for(d=.7;d<4.;d/=.9)p+=cos(p.yzx*d-t/vec3(2,1,5))/d;z+=d=.002+abs(p.z)/2e1;o+=(sin(z+4.*p.z+vec4(0,1,5,0))+1.2)/d;}o=tanh(o/1e4);

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Jun 11

This looks seriously awesome

Julien Sulpis @jsulpis.dev · Jun 9

I made this planet shader after completing @simondev.bsky.social's shader course, and now he has a new bundle including more advanced techniques and maths ? Let's do this ! 🚀

Give me just 10 years to complete all the courses I bought, and I should come up with interesting stuff...

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Jun 6

Just added the next part of the graphs and data structures section, covering traversal and pathfinding!

Combined they're about 2.5 hours of new content, live now!

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#threejs #gamedevelopment

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · May 30

Just added a new hour long section to the course: Graphs and Data Structures

This is just the intro, planning on expanding it soon. It's already live in the course, if you grabbed the early access!

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · May 23

I'm probably going to include in my course. Might make it to Youtube, I've been thinking about a performance video for a while.

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · May 22

Fiddling around with octahedral imposters. The tree is actually just a sprite (intentionally low res).

Shader is doing all the work, and blending between frames. First pass, probably not super robust.

#threejs

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Xor @xordev.com · May 19

NEW Mini: Design Choices

The guidelines I use to visually improve my shader art
mini.gmshaders.com/p/design-cho...

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · May 15

Thanks! It's surprisingly cheap, it's a trick from an old Crytek paper from 20 years ago, and I combine that with the default envmap from the scene.

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · May 14

🧵 TSL is looking pretty awesome, but I got you covered until then.

I just hit publish on ~2 hours of new content to the course, covering how to dig into Three.js's internals, and we cap the project off with some terrain with erosion and scattering tricks.

Live in the course, so check it out!

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Brian Breiholz @brianbreiholz.bsky.social · Apr 30

I implemented Homeworld 2 style sky meshes using baked vertex colors in @threejs.org. Reduces VRAM usage from 200mb (2k x 4k UASTC GPU compressed) to a lowly 4mb! For reference, iOS Safari used to crash web pages at 256mb, so this a big win :)

#threejs #gamedev #IndieGameDev

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