Tiffany

Rink 0.9.0 released! rinkcalc.app/releases/0.9... Repo is also moving to codeberg: codeberg.org/tiffany/rink

I finally got terrain rendering working reliably without lag or crashes www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut9c...

I started using material maker recently, it's an open source program for making PBR textures it's a much nicer workflow for my pixel art style than the krita filter layers I was using before, although it does crash a lot

I've been out of motivation on my godot project for a while, but today I got a foothold on it, converting star rendering to use compute shaders + CompositorEffect I'm going to try a different way to fix the issues that I got stuck on before (unrelated to star rendering)

I worked on rink this weekend, I'm hoping to get v0.9 out soon if I can, but there are a few big annoying tasks left to do

I've been making a program that runs 3D cellular automata on the GPU using compute shaders, and renders using voxel raymarching I can run 512x512x512 volumes in realtime on my PC

Whoa. That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today. With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

Geology Murder xkcd.com/3112/

I added an intercept planner and now it's much easier to get to places without overshooting by 400 km/s it automatically activates when your closest approach to the selected object is inside its hill sphere (the area where orbiting it is possible basically)

Funny how you just need to break some angles to turn kitchen environment into a spaceship.

I worked on my project this weekend, I've mostly been refactoring stuff, but I did add some nicer UIs

I accidentally made the distance between stars just a little bit too large and everything clamped to the maximum size of a 64bit integer the box edges look cool I tried clamping the position to a sphere to see what that would look like too

i turned it into a drawing in the year 58,515 an interstellar ship tears through space at 99.9999% lightspeed, travelling to some far away place. the extremely blueshifted light is enough to heat its exotic hull to the point of incandescence

Firefly Aerospace just released their Blue Ghost Moon landing video, this view is rather special... Source: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpHh... #BGM1

doing a big refactor of my project so that I can actually start working on game systems (a lot of the current code is a mess) I'm using data oriented design (for perf + for fun), which means lots of schemas I just got done with orbits & stars:

PSA: 1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly 2. If you are silly, you must stay silly 2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness

Hey NPR artist! 👋 At @blender.org , we are working in collaboration with @dillongoostudios.bsky.social to heavily improve NPR workflows in #b3d. 🧵Thread🧵 👇

today i learned x264 has a setting specifically for encoding touhou games

continents, tree lod, and a bunch of other changes

December 20, 2004 saw the release of Doukutsu Monogatari, AKA Cave Story, a free game that was quickly translated into English and became the talk of the Internet. It's hard to estimate the impact it had on the indie scene and on the resurgence of 2D outside handheld consoles.

Everything i like is in my room, why would i leave it

a neutron star in the year 120 trillion; in this future neutron stars have all cooled to only a few degrees above background temperatures, but they are still incredibly dense. these objects are very smooth and shiny, with splotches of dust from trillions of years of impacts #b3d

made a sand texture and then added support for multiple terrain materials (this is the first working version, there's still some bugs to work out) the water looks a lot nicer when there isn't grass under it

I've been on a quest to render an entire spherical planet in godot, without destroying the framerate on my laptop I got the terrain LOD working recently, and today I made a water shader

I made a volumetric clouds shader in godot it was fun and I learned a few things about ray marching

I made some progress on my godot project, added the start of a scenery/clutter spawning system I needed to use MultiMesh and direct RenderingServer/PhysicsServer access to avoid destroying fps everything is still placeholders, I'll have to make a bunch of rocks, plants, and ground textures

I beat factorio space age, it took 137 hours (been playing it since it came out a month ago...) my most recent playthrough of the base game (v1.1) took 40 hours for context very cool expansion pack. I liked fulgora a lot

Funny story: Journey had no automatic shadows. I painted them all by hand. The shadow texture was not hi-res. To get the iconic sunset columns to cast sharp shadows, I made sure that they aligned with the pixel grid of the texture. Here you can see the shadow map I painted.

fractal cool S I saw a meme about a cool S made of cool S's, so I made it into a fractal

and the universe said i love you #art

I found out today you can tile a sphere with quads using a rhombic dodecahedron, and made this in blender doesn't seem better than a cubed sphere in most cases, but it does get some usage, like the HEALPix map projection

some good #atproto info from a nice writeup by @alexia.bsky.cyrneko.eu whtwnd.com/alexia.bsky....

adventures in a post-stelliferous universe #art

hey go make a website htmlforpeople.com

amo que essas são as três línguas mais importantes do bluesky