Infinite by Aberration Creations

[vernal turtle]

Another year, another release at the worlds biggest demoparty Revision. See it in all the glory! https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=96605 You have download links and a youtube video from the stream with the timestamp on this website. The production was developed basically solely on linux, and we cross compiled it to windows and that was the version handed in. If you want to download, there are both windows and linux version of the exe inside. It was fun, sometimes in the near future, we might release the sources to it 🙂 Enjoy!

[hazy leaf]

It was absolutely amazing to see this at the party! Voted for it as my party favorite 😄

[weak wyvern]

And thank you Andrew Kelley! .. wonder who that is.. could be their gardener for all we know

[late current]

i was watching revision and the description caught me off guard 😭

it's really cool that zig is being used for stuff like this!

[trail dirge]

Amazing work! I loved last year's demo too ^-^

Can't wait to see what you do next year :)

[vernal turtle]

oh mate, hopefully this year 😄

[vernal turtle]

zig should get much more attention in my opinion. Rust is for example very well represented in the demoscene, but unfortunately zig, its just @void holly @hazy leaf @tough ingot @thin knoll and myself so far. Guys @hazy leaf and @void holly hint hint we don’t want to be the only ones releasing demos 😛

[late current]

i've been actually thinking of making a demo in zig recently, but i have never made a complete demo other than simple toy projects so it's a bit scary

[vernal turtle]

just start hammering on something and eventually you get there. Or start from scratch and do it all in a month like we did 😄

[unique lichen]

I've never done a demo, but i've been eyeballing it for like... 5 years now?
Well, i can't really graphics, some day tho... some day....

[void holly]

just be creative! you dont even have to use any 3d modeller, just code and procgen

[vernal turtle]

though I think personally procgen is easier done through blender. If anyone wants I think we could help them set up with doing demos in zig

[vernal turtle]

haha lol I just realized they said it on the stream xD sorry @crystal moon , but you are the best gardener out there. Bar none. ❤️

[weak wyvern]

Though kudos to them for quick fact checking, by the end of the demo they had figured out who Andrew is and informed the viewers

[vernal turtle]

yeah, to be fair, we did a shit job of stating it was made possible by Zig

oh btw fun fact I nearly forgot it totally uses @void holly s opengl wrappers @honest lake / @vernal grove zig gamedev which was gutted pretty much for our usage. Thanks a ton for your work ❤️

[hazy leaf]

Do you have a list of packages used? For example for the audio playback?

[vernal turtle]

zaudio

zglfw, ztracy, zstbi

[vernal turtle]

we are not using zphysics (though we really wanted, but had no time to do physics based stuff), zpool (after all, we didn't need it) @hazy leaf

[crystal moon]

there is nothing in this thread that would explain what this actually is

did you just render an image?

[trail dirge]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demoscene

It's rendered in real time, using Vulkan I believe :)

Or maybe OpenGL according to some messages in this thread? I thought last year's one was Vulkan but maybe that's changed

[crystal moon]

oh

that's cool

[trail dirge]

You can see a video of it here (timestamped) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYbFUr7-RZw&t=3367s

[vernal turtle]

yes last year was indeed vulkan. We wrote a vulkan backend but that became an unmaintainable mess and we had to quickly deliver something working so we sidestepped on rendering for opengl

[rotund walrus]

he gardens the code

[trail dirge]

Makes sense! Have you considered webgpu? For me it's the best of both worlds :)

the structure and performance of vulkan, with the productivity of opengl