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New video out now! + Project Build

The latest video about this month's project is up on the channel now, hope you enjoy!

System requirements for the build:

• Windows

• 16:9 resolution (ultra widescreen works)

• Ideally a GPU released after 2010

• DO NOT PLAY IF PHOTOSENSITIVE

Thanks for your support as always

Update

Hello everyone,

I've got a pretty exciting topic for this month and should have a build up for you all to mess around with soon as a sneak peek. Writing the script right now and should have the video out as soon as I can!

Thanks for your support as always

New video out now!

Video essay on the state of the games industry right now, hope you enjoy

Thanks for your support as always!

New video out now!

Thanks for your support as always, make sure to check out the community event on itch too!

Small Update

Hello everyone,

Sorry for the radio silence, it's been up and down lately adjusting to the new medication which has significantly warped my sleep schedule even more than it used to be. Also I got into mahjong. My sleep has always been very unpredictable which is why I pushed so hard to do this for a living but now it's a lot worse for whatever reason. I'll go without sleeping for a day or two then sleep for 20 hours, or I'll be totally fine and wake up around noon no problem, it's very ...

New video out now!

Here's the final build of the ps1 scene with music, please enjoy

Update

Hello everyone,

I'm finished with the subject of the next video which is an overview of playstation 1 style graphics. Attached is a build of the scene if you'd like to check it out.

Please look forward to the video!

New video out now!

Thanks for your support as always, more exciting videos coming soon

Update

Sorry for the lack of updates these past few months, it's been a tough time lol.

Right now I'm working on a video on perlin noise as a predecessor to future terrain generation videos, I've been battling pretty bad burnout so it's been a nice break. I'm slowly building up the tooling I need in the godot environment to tackle bigger projects and I'm excited to produce some videos on terrain with some topics people haven't talked about a lot like texture blending and such.

For some l...

New video is out now!

Had a bit of an unfortunate start to the year so not a very exciting video this time, sorry!

Building up my tooling for Godot so I can get around to the anti aliasing video and hopefully some cool terrain generation stuff soon. Please look forward to it!

New video is out now!

Happy holidays everyone, channel update video and such.

Thanks for your support as always!

Update

Hello everyone,

With the end of the year approaching I'm thinking about plans for the next year and so this month is going to be spent on exploring how I best want to approach those goals. Due to the holidays, sponsor deadlines are a lot earlier and so I can't spend a whole ton of time on a cool project. So instead, I'm prototyping something that's been asked for a lot that I think you will all find exciting, using this as an opportunity to explore some other tooling. The video for this...

New video out now!

Been kinda burned out lately so here's a lower scope video going over some more particle solution stuff.

Thanks for your support as always! The anti aliasing video is still a work in progress, unsure if it will be out next month due to holidays and stuff, but it's coming along.

new video out now!

Thanks for your patience, the video on the particles is out now. Please enjoy!

The next big project will be on anti aliasing, the next video will be out this month probably about some other stuff I did for the particles that I didn't have time to talk about in this video. Please look forward to it!

November video poll

Hello everyone I am hard at work editing the particle video which was voted on back in july but was delayed due to obtaining the 4090.

I've thought about some videos I'd wanna make next so here's the topics, thanks again for your support!

Editing in progress

Hey everyone I'm now editing the video on the particles, it's going to be about 40 minutes long and will most likely be out by the end of the month.

I'll be running the poll for the next video soon so please look forward to it

Project finished

Hello everyone I have finished the shapeshifting particle project (for the most part) and thanks to the extra development time devoted to the project I was able to completely fulfill the vision of satisfying real time shapeshifting particles, just look at the video to see how much of a difference simple lighting makes by accentuating the true form of the fractals. I'll be starting on the script of the video now and it'll be out by the end of the month.

Vision Complete

You all initially voted for a video titled "shapeshifting particles" so this is the completed proof of concept. I'll be spending the rest of the month trying to make it look cooler.

Project Update and Delay

Hello everyone,

I've been hard at work on the particle project again lately now that I'm finished with my Nvidia obligations and have obtained the all powerful 4090. My new pc is built with a dual gpu motherboard so I can benchmark with both the 1660 and the 4090, ensuring my shaders stay grounded for the masses.

So far the project is going really well, but because I am once again traveling this month (for twitch con) I have decided to delay the video to October for multiple reaso...

PAX WEST 2024 Recap + Haul

Hello everyone,

I've decided to make some vlog-y type stuff when I can. I don't travel very often but when I do I'll try to make a little fun vid out of it so y'all can have a little extra something.

New video out now!

Sorry for how tech bro-y and ugly this thumbnail is I really couldn't think of anything better but the good thing is that it worked and this is so far the most successful video ever released by far which is incredibly surprising.

This video was my "obligation" to NVIDIA for the trip to siggraph as well as the 4090 (don't worry it's my genuine thoughts and feelings). I expected this video to do pretty poorly but it would be worth it for the opportunities the better gpu woul...

Script finished and update

Hello everyone,

I got sick with covid the day I came back from siggraph so that was unfortunate and prevented me from doing any meaningful work for about a week and a half. I have finished the script for the next video about USD (Universal Scene Description) which I learned about during my week at siggraph and was asked kindly to make a video on by NVIDIA. It's of course my own thoughts and opinions so do not worry I am not a paid shill and if one thing all my old bosses agree on...

New video out now!

Here's the video on why game dev is so hard, although I'm sure most of you here already know that.

Next month's video will be on stuff I did at siggraph with nvidia, which is kind of in exchange for the 4090 they gave me that I will use to make the september video and every video beyond way cooler.

Thanks for your support!!

Project Update

Okay as always something exciting comes up and I must consult the council

A generous donor is providing me with a 4090, but my current pc can't handle that kind of juice so I need to procure the rest of the pc in the next month or so. The current project -- iterated function system particles -- could be made way cooler with the 4090 (like millions more particles) and it'd be a fun comparison with my current 1660. This wouldn't be possible to do this month of course, and I'm not i...

July Poll

It sure has been a long time since the last poll, here's some ideas I've had cooking for awhile. I am planning on traveling for SIGGRAPH this month, so because of that I again want to make a video in the 15-25 minute range since I'll have less days to produce.

If during research and development I find the scope of the idea to be too large, I'll move to the 2nd most popular option.

Let me know if you have any questions, thanks for your support as always!

New video out now!

Here's the video on my little personal project I made this month, an ASCII art shader!

The poll for July's video will be up shortly, probably later today once I compile some ideas together.

Thanks for your support as always!

What's in store for the near future

Hello gang,

With the physically based rendering video out and finished we're finally all caught up lol. The next month I have a lot going on as I'm getting 4 teeth removed for braces and so I'm going to be out of commission for a solid few days which means I do not want to commit to yet another big project. So, next month I'm going to choose a smaller scope project I know I can take care of in order to relax a bit as this first half of the year has been a constant never ending gr...

new video out now!

Sorry for the long wait, here is the video on disney's principled brdf and physically based rendering!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOkx0FiHDA&ab_channel=Acerola

BRDF Demo

Hello my favorite people,

Had some extra time so I put together an interactable demo showing off the subject of the next video, disney's principled brdf. It features a couple texture sets, two customizable materials, material blending, a few skyboxes, and 3 separate customizable lights with hdr and bloom.

Hope you like it! Also, windows only and stuff since this is made for my machine.

Next video underway

Hello everyone,

With the conclusion of acerola jam and all that we're finally back on track to our regularly scheduled programming. Next video will be the video on physically based rendering, the rendering equation, and disney's principled brdf design philosophies. I'll have a cool demo for you all to show off the different brdfs next to each other as well.

Although, if you don't know, I suffer from a mysterious chronic illness that is essentially a harmless allergic...