Mr F

Meanwhile... Bakery v1.985 is out! Full changelog in the pic. Mainly released it now to fix Unity 6.5+ compatibility, but there are also some good performance optimizations. (and it's still on 50% sale, btw) #gamedev

Forgot why, but Bakery (and RTPreview) is on sale again! 👀 #gamedev (Link below) (BTW I'm submitting a new version this week, mainly to resolve issues with Unity 6.5+, and these fixes are also available on github)

Another little feature for today: when baking in full SH mode, you can force Bakery to pack all 3 extra maps in one (with some padding). It avoids using MaterialPropertyBlocks and slightly improves performance on all machines tested (didn't test mobile yet).

I updated Bakery Standard shader (BiRP) and BakeryURPLit to support this feature. Bonus: you don't actually need to rebake your scenes, you can convert separate to triple maps on existing bakes.

Another feature for today: finally managed to hack-ishly write most of the bake metadata into LightingDataAssets (instead of scripted arrays), you can enable it in project settings now. Didn't benchmark it yet, but it can potentially improve scene loading times.

Updated Bakery's new OptiX9 version to support baking on multiple GPUs in parallel (on github). Currently only affects raytracing passes (not blend/denoise, but its easy to add later). If you have multiple GPUs, you can try it! (I don't but 1 person tested it successfully so far)

This meant that the last year OptiX9 Bakery update didn't have neither driver-provided nor manually implemented multi-GPU support, I just used a simple heuristic to select the most capable GPU in the system. (2/x)

Updated Bakery's new OptiX9 version to support baking on multiple GPUs in parallel (on github). Currently only affects raytracing passes (not blend/denoise, but its easy to add later). If you have multiple GPUs, you can try it! (I don't but 1 person tested it successfully so far)

I don't post WIP content from Faded very often as there're many unfinished/unpolished parts, but as I already mentioned the crowd sim on twitter... here is the test scene. About 800 characters, 56 bones each, animation is 3.5 minutes (!) with random offset, LOD0 is at ~20k verts #indiedev #gamedev

Full NPCs can push each other with proper animations and physics, but I also had to make crowd characters somewhat pushable as well. They act like these silly balls. I put them to an implicit grid (one of my fav acceleration structures, can store 1 NPC per bit per row/column!)

I don't post WIP content from Faded very often as there're many unfinished/unpolished parts, but as I already mentioned the crowd sim on twitter... here is the test scene. About 800 characters, 56 bones each, animation is 3.5 minutes (!) with random offset, LOD0 is at ~20k verts #indiedev #gamedev

Low-key added a massive new feature to the github version of Bakery. If enabled, it should noticeably improve export & tracing time for scenes with large amounts of copy-pasted objects (e.g. forests). #gamedev

Do you also dislike how Unity's WheelCollider only casts 1 center ray, so cars jump on every tiny bump? Did you also see 3rd-party assets doing like 16 rays per wheel and thought maybe it's kinda expensive? Did you know that PhysX can actually sweep convex shapes instead of rays? #gamedev

...aand somehow it actually WORKED 🤪 Even if you don't have Unity source code, you still have the asm and the pdb, so it's ALMOST like having source code 😂

Do you also dislike how Unity's WheelCollider only casts 1 center ray, so cars jump on every tiny bump? Did you also see 3rd-party assets doing like 16 rays per wheel and thought maybe it's kinda expensive? Did you know that PhysX can actually sweep convex shapes instead of rays? #gamedev

But it's not going to stop us... us being me and @meetem.bsky.social who wondered if we can just hack it into Unity. And we tried. Thanks to Unity.pdb, Meetem managed to find where it calls PxVehicleSuspensionRaycasts and replace it with a jump to custom mem where he forwarded it to a DLL

Do you also dislike how Unity's WheelCollider only casts 1 center ray, so cars jump on every tiny bump? Did you also see 3rd-party assets doing like 16 rays per wheel and thought maybe it's kinda expensive? Did you know that PhysX can actually sweep convex shapes instead of rays? #gamedev

Improvised a little lampshade shader that imitates scattered light from inside. Code and details in the comments! :) #gamedev

Light has stable world-space size done via this w*w dark magic. I remembered Humus' "phone-wire AA" using w for stable wire thickness, tried it here and it almost worked, but was still off... I squared it because it looked like it needs squaring, and it worked!