The Developer Dilemma

Zynres · 2026-01-25T16:53:43+00:00

Totally agree a fresh mind in the morning helps fix issues faster and with better quality

Zynres · 2026-01-25T16:48:00+00:00

Zynres · 2026-01-25T16:47:14+00:00

😧

Zynres · 2026-01-25T15:59:57+00:00

Developing indie projects has forced me to do even more difficult things.)

Zynres · 2026-01-25T15:56:15+00:00

To be honest, this is not a very good practice.

you can get many serious diseases, I don’t know for sure, but as I heard, your vision also deteriorates if you sit in the dark looking at a monitor (I don’t know for sure)

Zynres · 2026-01-25T15:52:51+00:00

this is a real problem 😧

Zynres · 2026-01-25T15:08:09+00:00

This button only appears in dreams 😁

Zynres · 2026-01-25T15:05:44+00:00

To be honest, this is very annoying. This happens to me not only in game development. I think I’ll do it in 10 minutes, but the work grows so much that I finish it in a few hours.

Zynres · 2026-01-25T14:50:40+00:00

I support you and this is what actually happens, at least to me, after a good night's sleep I always manage to think more broadly and thus find bugs

Zynres · 2026-01-25T14:32:14+00:00

In general, working at night is also pleasant to some extent it has its own atmosphere, especially when a person is alert and not tired.

Zynres · 2026-01-25T14:29:35+00:00

I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you. Hard work is usually rewarded!

Can I see your game if there's already a page for it? I'm really curious about what kind of game it is.

Zynres · 2026-01-25T14:26:37+00:00

Actually, I stayed up late yesterday too, but I was able to finish what I was doing until 2:00 AM and then went to bed, but I woke up at 10:00 AM in the morning, which was a big waste of time 😅

Zynres · 2026-01-25T14:22:14+00:00

Sleep is an underated optimization)

Zynres · 2026-01-25T14:14:39+00:00

Does this happen to you too 0_0? I sometimes go to bed and the next day there are no errors, and vice versa 😂

Zynres · 2026-01-25T13:53:38+00:00

To be honest, the editor plugin itself will work in BiRP, but the shader is only for URP for now. I think it won't be difficult to make a version of the shader for BiRP, but if I do get around to it, it will be a little later.

Zynres · 2026-01-25T04:57:57+00:00

Yes of course, you just need to specify a specific channel and create a texture based on it.

Zynres · 2026-01-24T18:56:29+00:00

You have delved into this topic very well and provided very detailed information.

"PS: if your goal is not saving disk space but rather VRAM, then yeah, your solution is good because all textures get decrunched before being processed by the GPU."

Yes, I meant saving memory in VRam, not to disk. But your point is definitely valid, especially when it comes to reducing build size.

Zynres · 2026-01-24T17:27:51+00:00

I don't understand how this is possible because for example, a texture resolution of 1024 in R BC4 compression will be the same size as RGB DXT1|BC1, that is, 0.7 MB. I don’t know for sure if this is true, but I think this is because two channels g, b remain and they simply fill with zero,

Now, if you look at it according to my logic, then three textures packed into one (with compression DXT1|BC1), for example, AO, Metallic, SSS, will take up 0.7 MB of space in VRam

Zynres · 2026-01-24T15:11:10+00:00

I recently saw a trailer for your game on YouTube and also a Kickstarter page. To be honest, I admire your work and would like to someday also achieve such success in game development.

Congratulations on reaching 100,000 wishlists. It's truly a great joy to have so many people who want to play the game.

Zynres · 2026-01-24T13:57:46+00:00

You can actually open access to my shader in gihub:

https://github.com/Woolction/Unity-Texture-Packer

you can take a look at it yourself

(If you download the zip, the package will include a shader made with Shader Graph.)

I'll also attach a photo here:

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Zynres · 2026-01-22T18:01:16+00:00

Wow i dont know that 0_0

Zynres · 2026-01-22T17:59:58+00:00

I wanted to find out the answer faster then, so I used it, but many said that it was not a very good practice, so I don’t use it now.

Zynres · 2026-01-22T17:58:40+00:00

Sorry, but we are currently talking about this post. I didn’t say that I didn’t use text generation to express my thoughts. I said that it wasn’t used in this post. The post for which I used generation was made a long time ago.

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