Pleased with results so far! Computing direct lighting with conventional shadowmaps. But raytracing GI, by just sampling the shadow map at the hit location and adding it to the final color. Next, I might try denoising or increasing polycount.

Went back to the high-poly model and it looks a lot better. It starts getting slow at 6 rays though.

Added temporal accumulation over 30 frames (half second). Details: I'm pingpong blending between two 128x128 lightmaps every 30 frames. The maximum blend factor for each lightmap is reached when at its peak accumulation count. C/C++, Metal, Macbook Air M1 #gamedev #indiedev

Dynamically sized shadowmaps. C/C++ Macbook Air M1 #gamedev #indiedev

Beginning to hash instances into buckets, for better spatial querying (for shadowmaps, gameplay systems, etc). Starting very simple: Every frame create a new hashtable, and insert each AABB corner. (So that we only have to do one lookup per instance, no need to check neighbors).

Writing a little .gltf file importer so that I can export more detailed ships from Blender (with transforms, names, etc). C++/Metal #gamedev #indiedev

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Started working on my 3D modeler again. So far, I've implemented vertex selection and screen-space translating. #indiedev #gamedev

Working on my 3D Modeler. Added Undo! - Supports infinite undos. - Tool and Model history are separate (seen in video). - Next task: compressing the undo data. #gamedev #indiedev