ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 19hWent to the Anish Kapoor exhibit at the Hayward gallery. I was looking forward seeing vantabkack in person. It is certainly really black, but not as much as I expected. The artist did a good job working around the limitations and hiding the issues. 000
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 01/10/2026And have a replay option, where you simply sit back and enjoy the process in real time 000
Reposted by ruben3dOpen Sky Sim @openskysim.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It all started as a experimental fork of @ruben3d.bsky.social RetroFlighSim, its HUD and F-22 is still in place. If you like 90s sim resurrections also checkout @why485.bsky.social @hijongpark.bsky.social @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social #flightsim #lowpoly #retrogaming #gamedev 191
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's great to see people building on top of my foundation, open source ftw! 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 30/08/2026For me the goal was unlocking the three islands, once I could free roam everywhere I lost the will to progress with the story 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 21/08/2026You could paint smiles or sad faces on them, so color blind people can still get some visual feedback. Also, make green lighter and red darker, so again color blind people can see the intensity gradient, regardless of the tone 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 16/08/2026You could try shrinking the mask a bit for the trees, as trees need more snow to be covered than the ground, trees close to the boundary are unlikely to be covered. That way you would get a bit more visual variation for free 000
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Thanks to @dieworkwear.bsky.social I was expecting a collar gap 000
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I wanted to practice some #pixelart for a simple cockpit, so put a small prototype together. Cockpit done with #Aseprite + #Blender + #Inkscape based on McLaren MP4/5. The track is an old model I created for a game made by @idaho06.bsky.social The car is the MP4/4 but hard to see from within. 3277
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 02/06/2026I do that with opengl too 😅 basically differentiate runtime image layout from file storage image layout, and convert between them at the boundaries 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 02/06/2026That's why DirectX UV coordinates always felt weird to me. OpenGL uses bottom left too. 110
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Looks good! Are you using moonlight for the night scene or static lighting? 100
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 15/05/2026At work we implemented these kind of toolbars, like in PS. Turns out people not used to those tools didn't read the hints and never discovered the "hidden" features (99% of our users :D ). We moved to displaying then on hover instead of on hold first, now onto simply not grouping into submenus 110
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I usually use Filezilla, and zip folders with many files 120
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This is what I get every time I try to work with bevel effects in inkscape 😅 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Went with plain OpenGL just in case I want to move away from SDL3 in the future, not tightly coupled. I had some weird Windows 11 compositing issues on multi-screen multi-GPU setups, found a workaround, and eventually got fixed with a driver update. I don't know if caused by not using their OpenGL 110
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I use it with opengl to avoid the platform-specific bits and works pretty well, lets you focus on what is important 110
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 03/05/2026No AI slop today, just good old photoshop. I recognise that Earth picture.,has been around for quite a few years already 030
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I can still remember the sound when a race started with the semaphore, the shark in the water, repairing the car kicking the wheel... 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 30/04/2026That ship reminded me of Jayce et les Conquérants de la lumière 000
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 29/04/2026"...looks like we're shy one horse." "You brought two too many." Added to wishlist! 110
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 26/03/2026That just triggered a memory from my childhood www.mobygames.com/game/498/blo...mobygames.comScreenshot of Blockout (DOS, 1989) - MobyGamesAnother ingame shot with CGA graphics 220
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 23/03/2026iirc that was Bill Roper, made the Orc voices in all three Warcraft games 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 08/03/2026It's called a color grading LUT. Basically it is a 3D texture used for lookup, where normalized RGB values map to the actual color to display. If the color at that coordinate is the same as the coordinates themselves, there is no color change. Better info scanmountgoat.github.io/Smush-Materi....scanmountgoat.github.ioColor Grading LUT - Smash Ultimate Material Research 100
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 07/03/2026This gave me an idea: shouldn't be hard to add an option to generate a color grading/correction texture for games, easily see a game in real-time using any palette generated with your tool with almost zero effort 100
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 02/02/2026That was specially noticeable in Doom. The palette had almost no dark reds nor pinks and faded quickly into light brown 110
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 24/11/2025You can always bake a GI solution such as radiosity in the vertex colours if you have enough density 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Trivia: I played the EGA version first, and felt later versions did not set the right mood at the start. Recently I found that the EGA version shows a sunset when you first enter the town, and the night version later, so you arrive there just at sunset, and everything else happens at 10pm iirc. 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 10/11/2025For this particular case, I would go with 3D at a reduced framerate. Always felt that smooth pixel art animations felt out of place. 120
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 08/11/2025The palm trees on the left look a bit like Europe. I can see Spain, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Denmark... 000
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 23/10/2025With per-instance non-destructive modifier stacks you could have many variations of a common shape, ideal for rocks, grass, foliage, etc. 120
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Many years ago, implementing disk and sphere area lights in a raytracer, naively went for random polar coordinates for sampling the surfaces. That produced very noticeably artifacts due to higher density when rho was small. Wolfram got me covered with their disk and sphere point picking articles. 020
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 03/06/2025You might still get some convincing volume effect easily if the view never gets close: from the grayscale noise, use simple parallax mapping for volume, and the screen space derivatives (dFdx or ddx) to get a normal for shading (that's how I got the shading out of a grayscale texture here:) 010
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Seems like an ideal position to get into volumetric clouds 110
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 27/04/2025And this is the Github repo, so you can have a peek at the source code and some extra information in the FAQ: github.com/ruben3d/sand...github.comGitHub - ruben3d/sandbox-sdf: Playground for experimenting with signed distance field textures for shape and text renderingPlayground for experimenting with signed distance field textures for shape and text rendering - ruben3d/sandbox-sdf 000
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 27/04/2025You can experiment with the live demo here: ruben3d.github.io/sandbox-sdf/...ruben3d.github.ioSandbox - Signed distance field rendering 100
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I added support for rendering some shapes too, based on the excellent work by @iquilezles.bsky.social 100
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 27/04/2025It can render text, generate a SDF texture out of it, and then apply real-time effects, fully customisable with a variety of parameters. The idea is to animate many of these as a result of user interaction. 100
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 27/04/2025I have been working on a signed distance field texture renderer, to develop a better understanding of how it works for a personal project. Using #Typescript and #threejs, the source is available #opensource (links below) 160
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Have you thought of randomising the path vertex locations per vehicle, within a radius ? That way they might travel at different speed, but be able to pass each other without much actual AI as the paths won't overlap that much 110
ruben3d @ruben3d.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Coming from you, I can't tell if that's a picture or a render anymore 010
