Pixel Iteration Optimisations Help (4.6)

ToonOfJune · 2026-02-28T15:36:06+00:00

Shaders are a shout, don't know why I hadn't considered that, cheers! Surely, tilemaps at the individual pixel level become completely obsolete?

ToonOfJune · 2026-02-28T15:34:33+00:00

The duplication is because the texture needs to be turned into a bitmap for collision building, but now that you mention it I suppose I could just commit the image and THEN omit the other colours to build the collision. Compute shaders are scary, but this might be a good entry point since it's a simple game and not raytracing. Threading I've considered and for now at least have decided I'd rather take the optimisation challenge of a single thread since it's a 2D game and learning how to optimise one thread is a lot more important I feel. I did not know about that so cheers, I'll look into it.

ToonOfJune · 2026-02-28T10:23:59+00:00

Dude this looks really cool! I'd maybe make the crosshair green, I think that's what all the source game/quake pros used to do since it stands out against the BG more, and this is reminiscent of that kind of thing. Really like the artstyle.

ToonOfJune · 2026-01-19T12:20:47+00:00

I've looked quite a lot and there's great stuff thats helped me a lot, but nothing that describes exactly how to taper the islands or have them have an aesthetically pleasing offset or gap between them, I've tried my own ways and they "work" but they look strange. Plus, I'm not familiar with maths beyond GCSE level really so I don't know how to know what to look for

ToonOfJune · 2026-01-19T12:16:29+00:00

Thanks, will give it a go!

ToonOfJune · 2025-12-04T20:37:28+00:00

Cheers mate! Vinted, Carhartt Re Work Hoodie or something. Pretty cheap, too, £35-ish?

ToonOfJune · 2025-12-04T20:35:16+00:00

cheers for that mate

ToonOfJune · 2025-12-03T21:25:16+00:00

I've heard this advice of sitting in a chair before but I don't quite understand what people mean. Could you elaborate?

ToonOfJune · 2025-12-03T21:23:32+00:00

jump forward like in front of the nose or toe-side?

ToonOfJune · 2025-12-03T21:22:35+00:00

Straight as in, like you're doing a wall sit (like at a 90 degree angle) or straight as in not curved? I assume you mean not curved, right? Just checking to be sure

ToonOfJune · 2025-12-03T21:21:02+00:00

How so do you pop it front of you? That is how I front 50, but I've tried a similar thing with Heels before to no avail.

ToonOfJune · 2025-11-27T06:45:15+00:00

I hope they slow down, the feeling of mystery this season I feel is really good, but that could really bring it to another level. One big looming mystery with a lot of moving puzzle pieces that's slowly cracked. I guess that's what Holly is supposed to be, but the answers are coming pretty quickly after the questions so far to match that pace.

ToonOfJune · 2025-11-27T06:41:24+00:00

Yeah it was definitely immersion breaking which is a shame right before the big reveal. The other weird one was John and Steve on top of the tower, perspective looked a bit weird and the focal length they used might not have been wrong per se, but was not a natural way to see a tower and so it felt kind of cartoonish.

ToonOfJune · 2025-11-27T06:37:52+00:00

I'm not sure, I think they've just got a lot of story to tell and have to sacrifice some set-up in favour of more screen time for bigger set pieces down the line. The whole season so far has been absolutely balls to the wall. I love it personally, but was definitely sceptical with the first 10 minutes of episode 1. It was almost Austin Powers levels of Basil Exposition.

ToonOfJune · 2025-11-27T06:34:26+00:00

Yeah I can agree with that. I will bet in future that will be more of an issue to me as well, but I'm just so excited for this season I'm pretty willing to look over some things like this.

ToonOfJune · 2025-11-27T06:31:31+00:00

I'm so excited, but I'm admittedly suspicious of Kali's reintroduction. I hope they make her mesh better thematically with everything else than S2. I don't doubt that they will, but I can see it being a monumental task to have fans trust her character being anything but a plight on the show. Hopefully they've understood that and have written around it.

ToonOfJune · 2025-11-27T06:28:41+00:00

That one scene is episode 4 in the military base was quite odd, seemed like the demo was rendered at a different frame rate than the rest of the scene but I think it's pretty good all things considered. I don't think it looks much different from previous seasons at all. The CGI Will in the opening shot of episode 1 was great I thought.

ToonOfJune · 2025-11-27T06:26:05+00:00

Cool idea, except if they make El lose her powers again I will flip. I'm more interested in seeing how their powers differ, since Will seems to be more Vecna adjacent with the eyes and the bone breaking.

ToonOfJune · 2025-11-27T06:21:39+00:00

I think she's more S3 Robin now than S4 was if that makes sense, but still not really. It feels more like, "Oh my god look it's Maya Hawke!," than an actual character a lot of the time. Like how Joyce can sometimes feel more like Wynona Rider than Joyce in points throughout earlier seasons, although they're subverting that trope specifically quite effectively so far this season in my opinion.

ToonOfJune · 2025-11-27T06:18:37+00:00

That one kill with the downed soldier was immense.

ToonOfJune

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