Vercidium

@vercidium.com

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Game engine developer from Australia, I’m keen to share what I’ve learned about optimising games. youtube.com/vercidium

The same isometric world as before but everything is grass and all the blocks are the same size
Isometric view of a blocky world with a dirt path, grass, a wooden building and shiny sunlight
Isometric view of the same blocky world with shadows incorrectly darkening each block in a strange pattern
The isometric world falling away into the void below, one block at a time
An isometric world with blocky dirt, grass and a basic wood building
An animation of an isometric blocky world appearing from the void. Four wooden buildings then appear. The buildings move together to form one large building. Doors are added next, and then the inner walls are removed last.
A panoramic shot of a forest, with a wood cabin on the left and a player venturing into the woods on the right. Light is emitting from the cabin and the player
A wide shot of a cabin in the woods after sunset, with a dark turquoise sky behind it. The cabin has a nice orange glow coming from inside it
A field of green clovers
An animated triangular breakdown of a 3D clover, where one triangle appears at a time until the full 3D clover is visible
Fallen trees poking out of the water, with large clovers underwater
A patch of grass in a forest with no clovers. Looks a bit empty
Sunset over a low poly forest with green grass and a turquoise lake
Before - incorrect shadows applied to a grassy forest at sunset
Before - incorrect shadows applied to a grassy landscape at sunset
Image of the NVIDIA performance overlay, showing 373 FPS, 232 99% FPS, 7.8ms render latency, 13% CPU and 91% GOU utilisation
An isometric image of a yellow forklift with no bloom applied. On the left are the 8 bloom textures, each of which are half the resolution of the last
An isometric image of a game level with no bloom applied. On the left are the 8 bloom textures, each of which are half the resolution of the last
Video of zooming in slowly into the edge of a shadow on the floor
Editing multiple lines of C# code at once using block select in Visual Studio
A C# class with the following code: public static class TextureUnitHelper { static int TextureBinding = 0; public static int GetAvailableTextureUnit() => TextureBinding++; public static void OnShaderBound() { TextureBinding = 0; } }
A C# class with the following code: public abstract class ShaderUniformSamplerBase(string name) : ShaderUniform(name) { protected TextureTarget target; public override void ResetCache() { lastUnit = -1; } public int lastUnit = -1; public void Set(uint handle) { AssertActive(); var unit = TextureUnitHelper.GetAvailableTextureUnit(); Gl.ActiveTexture(TextureUnit.Texture0 + unit); Gl.BindTexture(target, handle); if (unit == lastUnit) return; Gl.Uniform1(location, unit); lastUnit = unit; } }
A C# class with the following code: public unsafe class ShaderUniformFloat(string name) : ShaderUniform(name) { public override void ResetCache() { last = 0; } public override string Type => "float"; public float last; public void Set(double v) => Set((float)v); public void Set(float v) { AssertActive(); if (v == last) return; Gl.Uniform1(location, v); last = v; } }
A list of 800 errors in Visual Studio
The screen is split into two halves - on the left shows shader code within Visual Studio, and on the right is the running application. The application changes colour when the shader on the left is modified.
A screenshot of a GLSL shader helper class, written in C#
An animation of a man wearing headphones, and the headphones expand outwards to show the speakers playing sound.
An animation of a low poly man walking, then it zooms into his head and headphones appear out of thin air
A low poly man with the top half split into white triangles
Animation of an animated walking low poly man, morphing into a floating t-pose man
A video of an animated low poly man appearing and then dissolving into triangles. But his body morphs strangely as it dissolves into triangles
A video of a man walking, then it zooms in towards his head, then headphones appear from thin air
An isometric view of a small room. The path that each audio ray travels is visualized with lines, which bounce around inside the room and are unable to escape
An isometric view of an indoor corridor. The path that each audio ray travels is visualized with lines
An view of a 3D game level from the ground. The path that each audio ray travels is visualized with lines
An isometric view of a 3D game level. The path that each audio ray travels is visualized with white, blue and yellow lines
A GIF of a 2D terrain heightmap being broken down into a grid of triangle strips, then down to its basic component: a single triangle