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piyhlast Sunday at 10:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

Rendering 3d worlds has hugely improved though.


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saidnooneeverlast Monday at 6:31 AM

they are quite good also at placement and creating scenes etc. I had one implement a cascading shadow system in vulkan/glfw and just fed it back screenshots with peter pannin and acne spots etc.

it made a huge monstrosity first, 1500+ lines of shader code. Once it was happy with the result (it looked pretty good, almost blenders gamerenderer) it cleaned it up and a lot of debug code was removed. shrank it down to about 350 lines and made it much more readable.

this was something i didnt expect it to be able to do. create shaders, look at screenshots, fix em iteratively like that. multi modal debugging.