Basic trigonometric IK, but it's satisfying when it finally works. Previously I wrote an overly complicated position-based solver, but it was buggy and wasn't worth it 🥲

Oh, Bakery is on a sale again! #gamedev

Questionable UI, but Decalery now allows you to project receiver's UV1 (for the normal map) to the decal, while moving original decal's UV1 to UV3 (for color/gloss/etc maps). Basically cheap forward-rendered normal-mapped decals.

Distant light sampling for GT-VBAO with different quality options: shadertoy.com/view/wc2SzR (+ the math: shadertoy.com/view/wcsXDN)

Random observation: I'm noticing that when I'm doing graphics programming, 50% of my work is finding ways to compress and pack data... and when I'm doing gameplay programming, 50% of it is fixing all sorts of jitter/shakiness/abrupt transitions...

How to speed up random memory accesses blog.s-schoener.com/2025-07-28-ran…

Real-time online vortex-flow simulation on #shadertoy (go fullscreen for empty space filling). NB: you can dynamically paint markers. shadertoy.com/view/wXcXDM

Did you know that GetWindowRect returns -32000 for a minimized window position? And it's not mentioned in msdn docs. Well, now you know.

Fuck censorship!

New article! New... technique? Warping baked probes: c0de517e.com/025_cubeproj.h…

This room was digitised using a camera-mounted flash. As a result, the view-dependent lighting is stored in spherical harmonics. If you disable spherical harmonics you get, roughly, surface albedo. 🔗Link to the scene below

samplinglab.io New features: display grid, easily share your code, and more

Hey can someone at Unity please explain my friend VintProg why he can't receive any money from his Asset Store sales while living in one of the most dangerous parts of Ukraine (Sumy)? "Sanctions related" and no answer in 28 days - wtf?

Other programmers become goose farmers, and I became a hobbyist tomato farmer :D First harvest, here we go...

Bakery is on sale again?? A summer sale they say? ✨🥨May I interest you in some fresh warm baked global illumination?🥨💖 assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools… #gamedev

⭐️ New Article: Snooping On Slow Builds (Using syscalls)

Great Siggraph 2025 presentation of Gran Turismo's tonemapping pipeline, which also includes a fantastic introduction to light perception and tonemapping, its origins and how it evolved over the years with display technology, recommended read: blog.selfshadow.com/publications/s…

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians & Hessians: blog.demofox.org/2025/08/16/der…