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glTF
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Academy Software Foundation Announces OpenPBR, a New Subproject of MaterialX
My understanding is that this is an evolution of the Autodeks Standard Surface (https://autodesk.github.io/standard-surface/), which itself is a subset set of the glTF 2.0 material with its PBR extensions (https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/blob/main/extensions/RE... )
Together this means there is a lot of alignment between these models. I wouldn't be surprised to see a glTF 3.0 that adopts the OpenPBR as its main material definition, skipping the current extension complexity.
OpenPBR for material exchange combined with MaterialX for shader graph exchange combined (https://materialx.org) with OpenUSD for geometry and scene graph exchange, means together we are headed into a world where high quality 3D assets are exchangeable between content creation tools.
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Is it more performant to build the entire scene in Blender?
Search animation related topics, like skinning and weights. This is constantly debated. As for the compression it is just standard with the format, there are some old topics on it.
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VisionOS
An open standard that is very capable (but cannot find if it can do streaming) is https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF
It still misses some important things in the area of shading and animation for full transfer of all qualities you find in a modern 3d creation app like Blender.
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The difference between a primitive and a mesh in gltf
I wondered this in the past as well and I found this issue, which has a lot of discussion on it and includes some plausible possible reasons, though it seems it's not entirely clear anymore why it is like it is: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/issues/821
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Did a burger / solved for PBR partially
So the special thing about this is we didn't touch any of the PBR maps on it. At all. That was all automatic, I wrote a solving program. What I will reveal about that is the gltf spec I solved against is over here: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF . We're looking at using this with some 3D scanning businesses in NYC at the moment.
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Ask HN: Simple 3D animation file format?
https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/blob/main/specification...
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Texture Animation to glTF 2.0 Fail to Export
In the future, this can be properly done with the KHR_animation_pointer extension: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF/pull/2147
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Magic hole in GLTF from blender?! is it possible
I think ideally you would extend the gltf material to add control over e.g. renderOrder, colorWrite, depthWrite, then implement the extension in your gltf loader
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I've decided to learn Godot and it feels like I have "lost"
Probably not directly, but I'd look for frameworks that work with GLTF to have proper scene and asset management.
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What is the name of the effect which causes edges of meshes to appear brighter rather than darker?
Probably it’s some kind of Sheen. This effect gives the material a velvety fabric / fur impression, which would work well with the Tom Nook character.
bevy
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Voronoi, Manhattan, random
Bevy. A very young engine where you need to write the game entirely in Rust—that was appealing. But fatal flaws overshadowed everything: no editor, the engine brutally enforces the ECS approach, and the game's architecture must literally bend to fit this paradigm. So, you won't migrate to another engine at all—you just throw away all the code and start from scratch.
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Web Game Engines and Libraries
Missing one of the best choices as long as "maturity" isn't on the top of your list: Bevy - https://bevyengine.org/
Game engine written in Rust, leveraging ECS in almost every place and way, with a really capable WASM export option. Wrestling ECS for the first time might take you some time, but in my experience helps you keep game code as clean and decoupled as game code could be.
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3D and 2D: Testing out my cross-platform graphics engine
I don't see WASM/WebGPU changing anything when it comes to gaming, as an industry, personally. 3d visualizations and interactive websites? Yeah definitely a nice improvement over WebGL 2, if years late.
WebGPU is pretty far behind what AAA games are using even as of 6 years ago. There's extra overhead and security in the WebGPU spec that AAA games do not want. Browsers do not lend themselves to downloading 300gb of assets.
Additionally, indie devs aren't using Steam for the technical capabilities. It's purely about marketshare. Video games are a highly saturated market. The users are all on Steam, getting their recommendations from Steam, and buying games in Steam sales. Hence all the indie developers publish to Steam. I don't see a web browser being appealing as a platform, because there's no way for developers to advertise to users.
That's also only indie games. AAA games use their own launchers, because they don't _need_ the discoverability from being on Steam. So they don't, and avoid the fees. If anything users _want_ the Steam monopoly, because they like the platform, and hate the walled garden launchers from AAA companies.
(I work on high end rendering features for the Bevy game engine https://bevyengine.org, and have extensive experience with WebGPU)
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What Are Const Generics and How Are They Used in Rust?
I was working through an example in the repo for the Bevy game engine recently and came across this code
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WebAssembly Playground
That's possible. I did spend quite a bit of time tinkering with compiler flags, and followed the recommendations.
Some notes I found just now seems to agree with my results, though: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/3978#issuecomment-...
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Immediate Mode GUI Programming
I cannot recommend immediate mode GUI programming based on the limitations I've experienced working with egui.
egui does not support putting two widgets in the center of the screen: https://github.com/emilk/egui/issues/3211
It's really easy to get started with immediate mode, it's really easy to bust out some UI, but the second you start trying to involve dynamically resized context and responsive layouts -- abandon all hope. The fact it has to calculate everything in a single pass makes these things hard/impossible.
... that said, I'm still using it for https://ant.care/ (https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants) because it's the best thing I've found. I'm crossing my fingers that Bevy's UI story (or Kayak https://github.com/StarArawn/kayak_ui) become significantly more fleshed out sooner rather than later. Bevy 0.13 should have lots more in this area though (https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/discussions/9538)
- A minimal working Rust / SDL2 / WASM browser game
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ECS, Finally
I've also been enjoying building My First Game™ in Bevy using ECS. The community around Bevy really shines, but Flecs (https://github.com/SanderMertens/flecs) is arguably a more mature, open-source ECS implementation. You don't get to write in Rust, though, which makes it less cool in my book :)
I'm not very proud of the code I've written because I've found writing a game to be much more confusing than building websites + backends, but, as the author notes, it certainly feels more elegant than OOP or globals given the context.
I'm building for WASM and Bevy's parallelism isn't supported in that context (yet? https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/issues/4078), so the performance wins are just so-so. Sharing a thread with UI rendering suuucks.
If anyone wants to browse some code or ask questions, feel free! https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants
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Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'
These days, some game engines have done pretty well at making compute shaders easy to use (such as Bevy [1] -- disclaimer, I contribute to that engine). But telling the scientific/financial/etc. community that they need to run their code inside a game engine to get a decent experience is a hard sell. It's not a great situation compared to how easy it is on NVIDIA's stack.
[1]: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/main/examples/shader...
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Trying to write a game with mods loaded at runtime
This is the API you need: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/pull/9774
What are some alternatives?
GLFW - A multi-platform library for OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, window and input
Amethyst - Data-oriented and data-driven game engine written in Rust
glTF-Sample-Models - glTF Sample Models
Godot - Godot Engine – Multi-platform 2D and 3D game engine
MonoGame - One framework for creating powerful cross-platform games.
Fyrox - 3D and 2D game engine written in Rust
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
piston - A modular game engine written in Rust
learn-gdscript - Learn Godot's GDScript programming language from zero, right in your browser, for free.
RG3D - 3D and 2D game engine written in Rust [Moved to: https://github.com/FyroxEngine/Fyrox]
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
specs - Specs - Parallel ECS