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[Acerola] tried making a particle system (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/gamedev

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Cool particle systems have been popping up in games across the last decade. Why are these novel particle systems a new thing? What tech enables them? How many particles can a midrange gpu draw?

Topics covered: particle definition, gpu instancing, iterated function systems, the chaos game, matrix transformations, linear interpolation, fragment shader bottlenecks, point list meshes, extensions and applications of iterated function systems

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I really love his videos! It usually starts with me thinking "I understand some of this, maybe I could do some graphics programming" and always devolves into "I am completely unable to do any graphics programming."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As far as I'm concerned, graphics programmers are wizards.

[–] NostraDavid 2 points 18 hours ago

It's why John Carmack (created Wolfenstein, Doom, Rage, and made the engine that drives Half Life, Call of Duty and many more) is so revered. He's straight up a tech wizard.