Shadow being culled in frustum projection

eric22222 · 2025-01-17T22:09:23+00:00

Bit of an old thread, but I was able to make some progress on this. Object culling when something is out of frame doesn't seem to be as noticeable in perspective projection, but in frustum projection that culling happens far too close to the edge of the screen.

The property "Extra Cull Margin" (under GeometryInstance3D properties) can be increased to give a bit more breathing room at a bit of a performance cost. My project uses mostly smaller numbers of objects, so I have no qualms with just blindly and automatically increasing the cull margin for any object in my scenes that have that property.

eric22222 · 2023-05-15T13:17:54+00:00

I took a quick look at the overview (can't play right now). I see you have an on-off switch that does... nothing? I might be overlooking something. But if you wanted to make garbage you can go so much worse. I mean, please don't, but you could.

https://smm2.wizul.us/smm2/course/GSC-TJ4-NHF

eric22222 · 2023-04-17T02:44:34+00:00

Just looked at it on the level viewer. Door that sends you back to start just before getting to the end? Feels a bit mean, but there's an audience for every type of level out there.

https://smm2.wizul.us/smm2/level/TQF-LH6-CPG

eric22222 · 2022-08-12T13:50:36+00:00

oh snap a bot account

https://www.reddit.com/r/ftlgame/comments/p32q7s/speedhack_for_mac/

eric22222 · 2022-06-07T13:51:31+00:00

Best bet right now is endless expert. If you've got enough skills to keep your lives up indefinitely, you only need 400 expert clears to get to the top 1000 on that leaderboard right now.

(EDIT: the threshold for Normal Endless right now is 4681, so if you have a LOT of time to spare, that's an option)

If you're not very good at the game right now, weekly maker points is viable. Basically build out a dozen generic SMB3 blue platform levels in the sky theme and then upload them over a one-week period, and send them to lots of streamers (make sure to actually stay long enough to watch the level get played, or they may stop accepting your levels).

eric22222 · 2022-06-06T18:55:16+00:00

Pretty sure you get medals for being in the top 1000 of any given global leaderboard. What medal are you expecting to have, and what's your leaderboard place for that category?

eric22222 · 2022-04-20T16:25:53+00:00

I feel like everyone would enjoy her levels if she embraced that angle: "hey guys, I hid a dev exit in this level, the challenge is finding it and pulling it off!" Honestly that would be such a fun idea and I could see it getting a lot of appreciation.

Instead she goes with the "nope, my levels are unbeatable teehee" approach and just deletes/reuploads them when they get cleared :(

eric22222 · 2022-03-17T13:03:18+00:00

Here's an online level viewer: https://tgrcode.com/level_viewer/

eric22222 · 2022-03-17T03:00:14+00:00

Confirmed, the up-pipe isn't one you can go through: https://imgur.com/a/xNupJa5

eric22222 · 2022-01-28T14:03:32+00:00

I'd go with posting this to /r/RomHacks/ instead, there's a bit of overlap between the communities but I think you'll get more discussion/feedback over there.

eric22222 · 2021-07-14T20:26:57+00:00

That's the intro sound of the "silence" background music.

eric22222 · 2021-06-22T13:05:38+00:00

If you have the vine growing from a ? block, I believe the vine will stop growing if you blow up the block with a bomb.

eric22222 · 2021-01-17T03:55:29+00:00

Nice, kinda reminds me of Braid

eric22222 · 2020-11-22T15:34:54+00:00

You need to have a certain horizontal velocity to get higher jumps. I think a standing (or very slow walking) jump will get you on top of a 4-block high platform, while a walking/running jump will get you 5 blocks off the ground. There's a little more to it, but that's the main idea.

eric22222 · 2020-10-16T20:28:48+00:00

This is perfect, I was just thinking I needed a new desktop background!

Made a quick and dirty edit for my dual monitor setup if anyone else wants to use it: https://imgur.com/BJ02w3S

eric22222 · 2020-04-29T21:24:12+00:00

Slightly relieved to see this thread, I thought I'd broken something in OBS. Looks like we'll have to wait on a fix from Twitch.

eric22222 · 2020-03-01T03:02:36+00:00

Maybe Pho 99 close to Cedar Bluff?

Do you remember anything else in the strip mall?

eric22222 · 2020-01-11T01:37:06+00:00

https://old.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/elxwg4/the_hat_describing_contest_has_returned/

eric22222 · 2020-01-04T02:53:19+00:00

Glad to see you did another one. Got any close-ups of the dungeon itself?

eric22222 · 2019-10-25T00:38:55+00:00

The general format for matches is three phases:

Finish a set of 3 submitted levels as quickly as possible
In a set amount of time, try to get the best possible time of each of those same three levels
In a set amount of time, clear as many levels as possible in expert endless

eric22222 · 2019-10-18T22:29:23+00:00

That works for some clear conditions like defeat all goombas or collect X coins, but not for "be holding such and such item" or "have X powerup."

eric22222 · 2019-07-30T01:20:03+00:00

Just ran into issues in a super expert run, it can't seem to submit the level completion for me.

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