#epic
indigo bloom
looks epic, is it a ton of traces or something? how does it render the actual geometry? render view or something?
young pelican
Does about 2k traces per frame at a 20ms budget per frame
The actual 3d render you're seeing is a single render target that I draw all the points to over multiple seconds with it's own separate budget
indigo bloom
WOW that is smart!
would it fuck everything up if you moved your camera at the same time?
indigo bloom
that is extremely epic
young pelican
There's a clearing system built in if your position, angles or FOV changes so it'll start over
indigo bloom
could you potentially fix that using render view?
also I guess area portals are a problem
and do you think you'll be able to do it in the background and cache it? maybe even send it to the server who would then distribute it from then on
young pelican
Though you can kind of break it by using cameras since I'm checking LocalPlayer() instead of using the global functions
There's no way to get around that limitation since I'm drawing directly onto the render target, the only thing you could do is have a static drawing from a specific angle on your HUD
faint lake
couldn't you make it into a fuckhuge mesh?
merge close-by points into groups to speed it up
young pelican
Possibly, but that brings with itself a whole new set of headaches