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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Filling the gaps among splats with meshes or ray-marched surfaces. The data & acceleration structures are already there. Doing both splats & fill in one single pipeline is cheaper than doing them in two separate pipelines. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWIthUnity #VFX

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DK Liao @chosenconcept.dev · 16/09/2026

PSA: my vector graphics library for Godot and Unity is currently free on itch. I’m in desperate need of feedbacks please do try it out! #gamedev #indiedev #godot #unity3D

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I kept trying to geometrically solve blurry materials due to vertex interpolation at zero-blend brush boundaries, but to no avail. Here's a simple but effective alternative: resolving materials in the fragment shader. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Destructive field stamping. There's only one active constructive brush, destructively stamping into a sparse signed distance field. Good for sculpting complex SDFs without blowing up constructive brush budgets. #MudBun #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

MudBun 2.0 in the works (still in early stages). Rect tool. Multi-renderer. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

PlayStation dragon paper puppet, complete with a headset 😍

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Long over-due full documentation for Boing Kit, my bouncy VFX tool for Unity. No longer just a short quick guide & a few disjointed readme text files. Docs: longbunnylabs.github.io/boing-kit/ Store page: assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #BoingKit #GameDev #VFX #MadeWithUnity

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

lsp-mcp: A simple VS Code extension that exposes language server features as MCP tools. It hooks into whatever language servers VS Code already has running. github.com/TheAllenChou...

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

When your kid goes to bed next to you with a Bulborb/Chappy and you wake up the next morning. #Pikmin

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Alright. In my next project I'm going to have separate point & vector types, as they should be. We have this at work in our C++ engine and I can't go back. This guards against things like accidentally adding together two Vector3's that represent points. #GameDev #MadeWithUnity

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

They didn’t say adults couldn’t join a kids’ Easter bunny coloring activity at the park 🐰

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Inverting normals can come in handy for shaping interior spaces more intuitively. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

GPU-based auto-smoothing was fun to implement. Adjacency is constructed by spatially hashing & adding coinciding verts to a shared list. Then each vert's normal is updated to be a weighted avg. of similar normals of verts in the same list. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Ray-marched surface, take 2. Not sure why it's so much brighter than regular meshing. Even dual contouring can't beat this because it's the ground truth. Voxel density affects the proxy mesh complexity but doesn't change the visuals. #MudBun #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Take 1 was in 2021, and this time I have some ideas to make it more performant.

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Another one. Blending between surface nets or dual contouring and intermediate dual quads never gets old. The mesh is constructed & animated by sampling triangle noise with scrolling spherical coordinates. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Another demo of blending between surface nets and intermediate dual quads. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Quick & easy way to get dithered transparency to look more convincing on overlapping transparent objects: throw unique object hash/ID into the mix for noise seed. #GameDev #MadeWithUnity

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Sometimes it's desired to jitter splat orientation. With high-frequency noise though, the normals might appear to be too noisy. A blend back to the original normals can help, in the same vein as normal transfer techniques for foliage in games. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

More documentary of the shelved experimental ray-traced voxel render mode. Splat size was used as a proxy for rendered voxel size. Had to speed up the video to fit within bsky's limit. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Sparse hierarchical voxel nodes are used to narrow down which voxels to generate triangles for. I use branching factors (8, 8, 4), so one highest-level node, or "chunk", contains to 256 voxels. Only a node that intersects the SDF zero surface is further branched. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

The surface nets & dual contouring algorithms both involve an intermediate step that produces voxel quads and a final step that offsets vertices towards the SDF zero isosurface. Naturally...I'd want to try blending between the two steps. #MudBun #GameDev #MadwWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Demonstrating varying voxel density, render modes, and splat options. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Using each splat's center to sample a 3D Perlin noise gradient for offset creates this interesting effects as the sphere brush is moved around. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

SDF modeling is cool because you can just move the mouth around like this. #MudBun #BoingKit #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

But wait, what if we can also rotate/twist the normal and normal coordinates along the curve before feeding them to the noise function? #MudBun #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

A different set of inputs to feed into Perlin noise is the normal, binormal, and tangential coordinates along a curve. Rolling the tangential coordinate can create this interesting noise flow along a curve. #MudBun #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Carterian vs. spherical noise. Under the hood is the same multi-octave Perlin noise, but the scrolling inputs are Cartesian coordinates vs. spherical coordinates. #MudBun #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Unity doesn't give us the ability to skew/shear. No matter, nothing a nested intermediate game object can't solve. And that's exactly how my first Unity asset Squash & Stretch Kit achieved omni-directional squashing-and-stretching effects. #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Textured splat, size jitter, color jitter, rotation jitter, camera facing, and screen-space flattening are all you need for some nice-looking SDF-based bushes. #MudBun #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I forgot what prompted the development of the decal render mode, but I remember twisting the existing SDF data geared towards efficient meshing into something suitable for generating decals was a fun exercise. #MudBun #GameDev #MadeWithUnity #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Ray-traced voxels was a fun experiment but wasn't optimized enough. Maybe now that MudBun's fully ported over to shader graph, I can find time to revisit the idea. This time for both URP and HDRP 🤔 #MudBun #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Finally, MudBun's support for Unity's shader graph is fully complete. When the next MudBun update (v1.6.51) rolls out, these input nodes will be available for use in Unity 2021, 2022, and 6. #MudBun #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In the middle of a Slack huddle. Slack: Re-authenticate to avoid interruption. Me: *clicks re-authenticate* Slack: *cuts me out of the huddle before refreshing itself to show the home screen*

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The undo-redo dance. Like I said, I can't animate for the life of me, so I had to use...unconventional approaches. #MudBun #BoingKit #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou @theallenchou.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Here. Have a fluffy, bouncy, and stretchy alpaca. Fluff & modeling were doing with MudBun. Bounce was done with Boing Kit. #MudBun #BoingKit #MadeWithUnity #GameDev #VFX

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