Walt - Alterspective

@waltww.bsky.social

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Solo developer on Alterspective - A perspective swapping action-adventure game. Wishlist on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3868200/Alterspective/

Baking window: Has various options and macros for quick baking (more than 3 option dialog) * (X)Final Gen (macro) - (M)Process Meshes - (S)Slice generation (final). - Slice generation not through macro will have option for quick or final. - (N)Bake Navigation. - (P)Light probe placement - (B)Bake Lightmaps - (F)Bake all foliage. New lightmap baking: - Bake with ambient occlusion settings. - Either store pixels or reference textures (bake seems to have _final suffix and not be overwritten by other lightmaps, test this). - Bake with standard settings. - After asset import, merge textures: - New L0 .tga texture with ambient in alpha. - steal the GUID from the .hdr and delete the .hdr asset (should "replace" with no fuss). - New L1 .tga texture with shadowmask in alpha. - Overwrite old L1, keeping guid. - Delete shadowmask. New foliage sampling: - Sampling Optimization: - Keyword output for foliage should output data values in high dynamic ranges (which visually will probably just look white). - In theory, something like GraphicsFormat.R32G32B32A32_UInt should be able to read this data as ints. Test this. - End result should be that foliage sampling only ever needs to do one pass, hopefully giving a -66% speed reduction. - Resampling: - If sampling optimization works, we can also store these value as ints in the Foliage Data. - We can also use ints in the Structured Buffer, decoding the ints at shader time. - Is the cost of decoding the data in the shader > the cost of storing more values? Perhaps this should be benchmarked. - In this process, we should also get a new value for the ambient term. Foliage tool / Artisan improvements: - Better number typing for values / opacity. - Eraser sphere that removes in a radius. - Fix issue with grass painting on slope. etc..