Thread by @marcel_wiessler

Finally what I actually wanted to post 😅

Here is a first dynamic update version of the rendering

Got a couple of things to optimize and reduce/remove some expensive operations that cause drops in the video

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BTW

Doing shadow culling could potentially improve performance a lot

but it's perhaps not necessary for our usecase so that's just a sidenote

Started adding support for additional properties per instance (test with subtle brightness variation)

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Started working on serializing render data

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Dynamic removing now works with additional render buffers 🫒

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Uhm 😅

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Custom pass test: culling using a worldspace texture

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On that note 🤪

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Test with some grass geo

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and added a distance cull pass. Saves around 5ms when looking from a lower angle

(culling the grass geo only here)

Why not...

Ouf wondering why rendering is suddenly so much slower with culling ON 🤪

When leaving the computer for a few minutes:

Start to integrate my rendering with the actual terrain gen

The first test scene works quite well! I'm pleased 😌

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And started integrating into gameplay!
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Tiny cute test scene 🤠 Will be so good as more assets come in. Can't wait! 😅 @ElaborateGames @AlexanderBorner @alexflegler

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Started rendering the terrain with single hex tiles yesterday. Culling is wrong because of the heightmap offset and added gaps to make sure I'm seeing the correct version^^

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@ElaborateGames @unity3d Terrain got per texture type blend settings

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Havent been posting updates in a while 😅- changed terrain rendering to use instanced tile based rendering in the meantime besides other things. This enables us to add stuff like river tiles or special terrain tiles more easily 🥰🤩

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Started implementing tag based culling 🤟 @ElaborateGames

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First more complex test with tags is working quite well so far. Next step is making the texture dynamic

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Really happy this went so smooth and looking forward to making stuff dynamic tomorrow :) SHOULD be easy 😅

First version using poly bounds check. I also changed texture culling to use bit-flags for now

Made a little test component to drag around.

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Added rotation and expanding bounds to my test component 😅

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Little improvements:
changed RFloat to RInt RenderTextures (although 32bit is probably way more than what we need) but that fixed flickering because the bit operation work now correctly! 🔥🥰

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Added some more shapes and chose a nicer test model 🤠

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@ElaborateGames @unity3d We also have polyline support now to cut free paths and such🧦

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Today is 🏄⛵️🚤🏞️ river day @ElaborateGames

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I got a ton more of videos like these, doubt it's interesting enough tho so here is just one more with a slightly larger map. I think these components will come in handy for testing art at some point

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Back at decals 🩹 This was yesterday when I had first version of rendering decals with instanced indirect.
It should be rendering 1 mio decals here

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Finally: decals on terrain with stencil mask🧑‍🔧

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Two issues to solve: aliased edges and decals are partly transparent on the terrain shader (not on my test shaders tho... mmmh)

Other decals look fine tho (or maybe I just can't see the problems) 🧐🤔

Fixed transparency 🪟 issue and readded decal layers 🧱✨

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Also improved on culling today due to transforming the mesh position in vertex stage. This was especially obvious for the hex tiles. I now calculate the offset once and store it in a buffer for certain objects to apply it when culling

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For comparison 🧐

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