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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 2d

Stop telling me I’m using my devices wrong #2

Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 3d

I fudged up the refraction stuff and am in the process of rebuilding my BSDF, but since then I decided to remove checkerboarding, the tradeoff seems worth it since now I have other optimisations in place

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 4d

It feels like the logic for the renderer is writing itself at this point; there's enough groundwork for it laid down that more and more is just slotting into place.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 7d

…But there are also other ways.

I could simulate the ray passing through by taking the input angle, calculating against the shape of the primitive for the exit point, then calculate the output angle.

That might be a nice, performant workaround.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 7d

Thinking on how to handle intersections when inside an object….

Workspace:Raycast() isn’t really built for this, so it may be that I would need to start doing the groundwork for my own raycasting model…

Not fun, but I was going to need to cross this bridge at some point anyway.

Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 9d

Refraction is starting to work!

So this is working for initial intersections with the medium of an object, but I need to perform the check again when leaving an object.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 9d

Filtering is something I'd be happy to invest more time in once the fundamentals are taken care of :)

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 9d

Refraction is starting to work!

So this is working for initial intersections with the medium of an object, but I need to perform the check again when leaving an object.

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Provinciaa1 @provinciaa1.bsky.social · 9d

Heya @crazyblox.bsky.social , I wanted to make this fanart for you as a form of gratitude and how awesome it is to play flood escape/FE2 for many years. I admire all of it and made great memories and friends 💕
I assume you get a lot of mentions so this just a minimal way from reaching out to you.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you for the kind words on the positive impact both games have had for you; this is genuinely amazing art and I would love to get it framed on my wall.

Could I add you on Discord so that you could send the original uncompressed image my way?

Genuinely awesome work, I mean it.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 10d

I break down in more detail the features I've implemented with this renderer in this post if you're interested.

devforum.roblox.com/t/crazytrace...

CrazyTracer [Pathtracing Project]

I’ve been making quite a bit of progress lately… Feels like the structure of the project is starting to settle pretty well 😁 What’s new? PNG Support: Parsing & Module String-Base64-Encoded Storage:...

devforum.roblox.com

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 10d

I have been paying attention to non-roblox alternatives; ‘LunarEngine’ on github was supposed to be our calling, but the dev dipped before open-sourcing the latest version.

We do care, but we don’t know where to go, so we’re taking our time figuring out _HOW_ we are going to go out.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 10d

You’ll find that there are many others like me whose career & financials depend on this platform, leaving us stuck in this moral disposition until we are able to resolve it in our own way.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 10d

And, if we would want to reflect, takes like these do make it embarassing to work on the platform, and I want to stress I do not align with the platform’s recent issues, nor their approach.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 10d

Infact, this project is an effort to port things off-platform; there’s a few systems that I’m still yet to work on before it can run outside of Roblox.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 10d

Why? It’s a fact.

I don’t support their recent conduct & PR; I’m not appealing to folks who think I should uppend my career I spent 10+ years building in a microsecond because of something I was never a part of.

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 11d

It is though!
I implemented my own text rasteriser which uses the same framebuffer as the output.

I did this so that when I _do_ port outside of Roblox, I can keep info on hand without needing to jump between a debug window etc

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 11d

This doesn't look like it's running in Roblox anymore

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 13d

A lot has happened in 7 years, yet this person probably has the longest FE2 login streak in the world.

Thanks for supporting the game all this time 🫡

kawaiiialexx.bsky.social @kawaiiialexx.bsky.social · 15d

A little late with the post, but 7 years log in now lol
I have no idea how I haven't managed to lose this yet 💀

And a happy late anniversary to Flood Escape 2!
I'm so proud of FE2 with all the growth and updates it continues to get! 😊

@crazyblox.bsky.social

#FE2 #FloodEscape2 #Roblox

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 15d

Fixed and imported!
Now playing around with different reflectance for each part.
Need to implement refraction!

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 15d

Woah actually I've made a lot of progress recently, feels great!
Just need to import a new skybox since I redid the texture system...

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 18d

if you live there

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 18d

Either that or just some structural reworkings…

There’s already the pipeworks for BDRF shaders per material, I should really lean into that

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 18d

Might just implement compositional things like bitmap text rendering. Would mean that I could allow the framebuffer to occupy an entire window when porting out

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 18d

Though if I’m thinking this, the error may be that I’m asking too much of myself

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Crazyblox @crazyblox.bsky.social · 18d

Wish there were more hours in the day

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