Hazel looks amazing Will you guys ever include a webgl flavor? Would love to utilize your engine on the browser Also, unrelated, I've got like 4 hostinger servers, and really like their service

hi

lol idk why but i thought you said "I became an actual graphics card" also congrats!!

Asking someone who/what is behind a person is a faux-pas :P

That’s Tim, he’s on our team working mostly on making games with Hazel - that’s what he’s doing during this video!

@@TheCherno I thought he was using unity lol

@@user-dh8oi2mk4f Interesting that unity is something to make fun of -- i thought it propelled individiuals to mars:P

@@TheCherno So... what's up tim? :P

You mean logos?

Backend engineer here, (not game dev) but the process is similar. You learn the basics of programming syntax. You design a few projects from the ground up, learn tons and patterns. You work with other people, learn more patterns. After several real world projects, things become quite easier to implement. Also you don't have to be a super programmer to start, you'll never know everything. You just have to know enough to get started, and then experience will make you a better dev.

After finishing some kind of graphics API tutorial, you can understand most of content in this channel. Most of the technique here is about 10~20 years old. There's also a lot of books about how to make game engine which you can learn from. Or you can also google the specific technique about game development(e.g. ecs system, pbr rendering, instancing) to learn.

@@fangsunjian2 could you recommend some resources like books or articles that go in depth into computer graphics stuff related to game engine dev and game dev

@@anonymoussloth6687 I'm now working for a AAA console game studio. Wish this comment can help you. Here are some books which I personally recommended. I recommend you complete a graphics API tutorial first and read other books casually. You can learn a lot of technique terms from the last two books and just google the specific one when you want to implement it. Introduction to 3D Game Programming With Directx 11/12 (API tutorial) Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics Real-Time Collision Detection Real-Time Rendering Game Engine Architecture

That's the spirit!

What's the advantage over just a quaternion plus a translation and scale, that would also be eight floats. It also allows any rigid transformation (reflections can be achieved with a negative scale), and it seems like it would be cheaper to convert into a matrix.

But they can't represent non-uniform scale themselves. So it would be 8+3 = 11 floats instead of 12 for this 3x4 matrix.

He will probably get to it. But there are more important things at the moment.

My intuition says that it would be better to use a per-instance attribute buffer as it would allow better memory optimization than a global storage buffer where the gpu has to wrangle many random (as far as it knows) memory accesses across multiple lanes.

@@DFPercush I'm not sure what you mean by saying random. If you create a UBO/SSBO (whatever) with size for 1024 instances, the GPU will only loop through linear, well-defined memory region. It's like you'd do something like this in C++ std::vector transforms[1024]; for(int instanceID = 0; instanceID

​@@sc5shout Yeah I understand. Hmm, I guess as long as it's a read only buffer in that stage, it would probably be ok. But you might want to check vkPhysicalDeviceLimits :: maxUniformBufferRange (64k on my RTX 2060) as well as maxVertexInputAttributes (32 on same card). Beyond those size limits, you're talking about storage buffers, which are writable from shaders, and that's when you can run into cache coherency issues slowing you down. Although there might be a way to flag it as read only. ... But I haven't tested any of this, so, short answer no. :P

I think that depends on how fast the shader is. But for a fast shader, probably. (still not as fast as running from the cold into the sauna)

@@theRPGmaster The actual context switching is what costs in terms of swapping from shader to another, setup time for the shader is a thing too but generally that is a fraction of the time the context switch takes. So what you want is master shaders that can do everything but are fast as hell, but those are contradictory goals obviously.

Cherno def knows how gravity works. It’s maybe something he hasn’t thought about or he just prefers it this way

It's an aesthetic choice I'm guessing.

The endgoal of Hazel is a comprehensive learning project / experience. Hazel was never intended to / designed to compete with major engines. Rather it was designed to teach the architectures and design of a game engine to a wider audience

A draw call basically starts a "thread" on the gpu. The reason they are considered slow is that it takes time for the hardware to set up everything before it starts running your shaders. It's like booting up a computer, kind of. It's not really that bad, but if you're doing it thousands of times per second it starts to add up. There's also a "ramp down" time. Some pixels might finish running their shader before others, and the gpu has to finish everything before it can switch to a different pipeline and start rendering something else. So you're not getting full utilization at that point. 2. Actually, in theory it might be possible to render a scene by using several instances of a single triangle, depending on the material, and just transforming that. But that would take a lot more data to store all those transform and be generally less efficient than having an indexed mesh. Plus you'd have to generate that asset data somehow for all those transforms, and that's just not the way 3d editing software works. But fundamentally that's what a mesh is.

Why I just set up my own server for hosting and virtualization. Some great cheap hardware out there used.

@@kyleleblancvlogs3820 Yeah but maybe you don't want the whole world knowing your home ip address. It's important to mitigate the risk of getting "cancelled" when looking at hosts though, for sure. It's an unfortunate calculation that has to be made these days.

@DFPercush you don't need to expose your home ip. You isolate your home network through a bastion server that you harden for security and that allows outward traffic to the internet. Your internal network and all its ips would be hidden and not accessible from the outside world. I am considering setting up a data center for hosting etc. But that's....hard. so we will see. It will be small at first.

Shit had to process it for a moment

@@mr.mirror1213 Now that you have, what is your conclusion? :P

you know what i mean by this

I "order" 500x500 pizzas, lol

thats a ton of pizzas, lol

actually

just from a different view points