web dev, game dev, tinkerer, woodworker (he/him).
Portland, OR
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How it started vs how it's going, cherry coffee table edition.
This is definitely the most complex build I've done so far 🫠 Designs, tons of milling, 4 panel glue ups, wide inset drawer, sanding galore. A healthy serving of mistakes that I hopefully learned from.
ALT A coffee table designed in Fusion360
ALT A coffee table made out of wood
No one makes a better case for dropping Unity than... checks notes... Unity. Don't keep up with the latest and greatest? Cool, we're gonna throw away 5 years of your projects.
So damn cool to see compute shaders running by default in the browser (Chrome Beta for right now). Expect to see 3D tech to take a big leap forward over the next few years.
webgpu.github.io/webgpu-samp…
The trick is to generate 2 textures representing the map and grid positions, where the red and green channels for each pixel hold the x and y position for a given point. Then you just lerp between the two textures in the vertex shader. The map texture here gives off Rothko vibes.
Shoutout to @MaximeHeckel for the inspiration on the topic. Since the animation is simple here, I ended up not having to use FBOs and the setup is pretty concise.
Really happy with the game my team was able to make in 5 days for Global Game Jam this year. I always try to learn a new tool or push myself in some way during jams and this year I implemented @YarnSpinnerTool for a dialogue system.
🦝🐼 Check it out! pfarnach.itch.io/trash-panda…
Also I'm happy to announce this is my last jam using @unitygames. It's turned into such a pile of garbage of a game engine it actually reset my entire project after I closed and reopened the editor (thank god for git). Plus the >30 second file-save-to-run iterations are tiring.
Amazing write-up on Frame Buffer Objects (Grab Pass textures in Unity parlance) in ThreeJS/r3f. So well made, damn. blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/…
I made a heatmap of on-street trees in Portland using public data and it makes the tree coverage disparity in outer SE + NE especially obvious.
pdx-tree-map.vercel.app/
#pdx
ALT Heat map of tree coverage in Portland, Oregon shows a higher concentration of on-street trees in downtown, inner NE and inner SE neighborhoods.
This is significant because it's likely that the city's tree canopy is shrinking at the same time heatwaves are becoming more common. Trees help keep neighborhoods cooler and ultimately safer during those heatwaves.
wweek.com/news/2022/03/17/po…
And of course there's a correlation between income and canopy coverage 😔
bestneighborhood.org/househo…
ALT Map showing income distribution in Portland, Oregon. Income decreases as you pass 82nd Avenue into East County.
The main trick is to transfer one object's normals to another's (a basic sphere to a blob of tiny spheres in this case) in blender. Great explanation of how to do this here
xitter.gq/kaleidoscube/status/14…
Since you all really liked the clouds from the last post, we made a very quick How-To-Stylized Clouds in @UnrealEngine 4.
These clouds are used everywhere in A Juggler's Tale and really add up to the atmosphere!
#indiedev #gamedev #ue4
Added a No Man's Sky-style scan effect to my terrain shader and it's so buttery 🥹
codesandbox.io/s/r3f-terrain…
#threejs #r3f