Nostr notes by Liblast

BTW if you'd like to experiment with these ideas, let me know ...

2026-10-06T14:39:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…w2pw
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BTW if you'd like to experiment with these ideas, let me know - the game we're making in Godot here is a nice playground, and the emerging entity/state system I am designing is where I want to put such ideas to life.
- unfa

There is a highly-parallel programing environment that you might ...

2026-10-06T14:07:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…0802
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There is a highly-parallel programing environment that you might already have experience working with: shaders!
Shaders are programs that can execute in thousands of threads on the GPU and so must be done in a non-blocking way. Each fragment or vertex cannot depend on others.
What if game events were processed this way?
We could use hash maps (like textures!) to allocate events to entities, then have all entities process events in parallel, and generate events for the next tick.
Could this work?

A big bottleneck in games is operations that must be performed in ...

2026-10-06T14:03:03Z

A big bottleneck in games is operations that must be performed in a specific order and cannot be parallelized. Even our pocket computers nowadays could do 4 or more threads. It seems wasteful to tie game's performance to a single thread, but every programmer knows threads are an unending source of unexpected bugs and are notoriously hard to debug.
#Godot offers some options to parallelize node graph processing, but I have not yet gotten into that...

Here's a few pictures trying to showcase the HDR effect. ...

2026-09-11T00:59:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…6km2
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Here's a few pictures trying to showcase the HDR effect. It's funny because the camera made it on HDR compositing on one of these to negate the higher dynamic range...
- unfa

Experimenting with HDR display in Liblast. The screenshot is ...

2026-09-11T00:54:04Z

Experimenting with HDR display in Liblast. The screenshot is funky, but in person this looks really cool :D
- unfa

Rebuilding my PBR workflow node groups for #MaterialMaker 1.7. ...

2026-08-30T13:52:19Z

Rebuilding my PBR workflow node groups for #MaterialMaker 1.7.
The old ones were made before the Godot 4.0 upgrade, and so were based on standard shaders, these new ones are going to use compute shaders finally.
I keep trying to work without them, but it's just not the same. Once they are ready, I'm going to upload them to the community library so all can use them!
- unfa