naps are handy for game design

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

In practice what that means is really old hardware can still have screen space distortions, there will just be banding (until I add dithering) and no MSAA, but the only such hardware I have to test this on doesn't support MSAA anyway.

Once I add dithering, I'll probably use RGB8 for the main frame buffer in all modes and so the only difference will just be ES2's lack of MSAA.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

oh cool, the rain effect actually does a pretty decent job obscuring the banding (the video shows ES3, I just tried it with ES3 features compiled out just now and it looks fine)

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i figured out how to "build jolt physics". no idea how to "use jolt physics", but i'm sure that's probably surmountable. this thing is 19 megs tho holy smokes

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

maybe i should just see if i can write something reasonably fast for doing ray-triangle hit queries on low poly terrain before i bring in the titanic

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

come to think of it I probably don't really need a bvh or anything like that I just need to know what part of the map the player is currently in contact with and which parts are connected to that. in this case the game is just a network of roads, so the physics representation of the play space could just be whatever the closest line segment is, the local ground plane, and the road width

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

somehow i got it into my head that i'd need to figure out what a bvh is or something. good prank. i'm gonna just use a linked list lol

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

the other thing that made me go UUUUUUUH was I fired up jolt's "car" vehicles sample and I don't think that's how cars work

[rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva it's how they work IN EUROPE!!1

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@rygorous they frequently flip over sideways with little provocation and stay balanced perfectly on two wheels for a like a whole minute before gently fwumping back over onto all four wheels again? and rarely make contact with the ground while moving?

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@aeva @rygorous no, that's Hollywood

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@oblomov @rygorous no no no it was jolt physics. I was very clear about this

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@aeva @rygorous the real question is: was jolt physics inspired by Hollywood, or the reverse