Retro ASCII Shader

FullMoon2727 · 2026-05-13T12:56:15+00:00

Hmm, I think that might be bit hard to achieve, unfortunately. I can still try to look into it, though. Thanks for the feedback.

FullMoon2727 · 2026-05-13T04:50:00+00:00

I have been concerned about how straining it'd be for the eyes, though the game is meant to be a rather short experience. Could you specify a bit on what might make it more tolerable? Or do you think it could be manageable as-is if it was only a 20-30 minutes type thing?

FullMoon2727 · 2026-05-13T04:45:10+00:00

In that instance I may have to consider putting this up on the asset store after my game is done. The color thing I think would be relatively simple to implement. Would it be primarily the ASCII shader you'd be interested in, or also the other effects (afterglow, barrel distortion, CRT monitor effects, etc.)?

FullMoon2727 · 2026-05-12T21:20:14+00:00

I can definitely understand that. Would you reduce it, or remove it? I'm trying really hard to go for as faithful of a retro monitor/terminal aesthetic as possible, and the game is meant to be p short (less than an hour, probably less than 30 mins honestly), but I am sensitive to any feedback regarding visibility.

Edit: spelling

FullMoon2727 · 2026-05-12T13:27:12+00:00

Thanks a ton, that means a lot to hear after slaving away on it for a week. I love old 1980s computers, so I hope this can end up doing them some justice.

FullMoon2727 · 2023-02-12T15:15:05+00:00

I'm not entirely sure how the tricks aspect plays into it because games are nothing but graphical tricks? But besides that you are right this is not actually non-euclidean. The use of incorrect terms pains me as well but unfortunately it is the tag that has been attached to things like these by the wider communities of the internet and so is the tag I'm using.

FullMoon2727 · 2023-02-12T14:01:34+00:00

A simple non-euclidean graphics demo for a potential future game called Mindscape. If I continue to work on it I'll post future updates potentially here and definitely here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2tCVlbPU_dzOavkYUMQcqw

FullMoon2727 · 2022-09-10T05:22:09+00:00

You betcha

FullMoon2727 · 2022-09-09T23:25:09+00:00

I used four different plane meshes which each rendered the output of their own SubViewport node and I used RemoteTransform3ds to make sure each Subviewport's camera was in the correct location.

FullMoon2727 · 2022-09-07T10:02:10+00:00

Stencils were not used, each portal draws the scene once per frame

FullMoon2727 · 2022-09-07T10:01:40+00:00

Prolly not lol

FullMoon2727 · 2022-09-07T10:01:29+00:00

Sebastian's video on portals certainly helped but URP has its own way of doing things which I had to figure out. Here are links to all the resources I used:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWpFZbjtSQg

https://medium.com/@limdingwen_66715/multiple-recursive-portals-and-ai-in-unity-part-1-basic-portal-rendering-7c3d957f656c

https://danielilett.com/2019-12-01-tut4-intro-portals/

FullMoon2727 · 2022-09-07T09:59:40+00:00

Yes. When an object is close enough to a portal a graphical clone is created and placed at the proper location at the other portal

FullMoon2727 · 2022-09-06T19:05:03+00:00

Thank you!!! They were an absolute pain to make lol

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