ok this is promising- with shadows (not rendering) for everything, it's at 10ms. but that's only with inlined point samples, not interpolation. if i turn on interpolation w/ a function, it's 23ms or so. i'm going go try inlining.

i'm trying out some expressive bitwise tricks for lighting which may end up doing interesting expressive things with hue. the glitches are fun.

the infilling is working, with depth test! now i need to add clipping for the bookended heightmaps.

i got precomputed color working with all the primitives now. everything is green because i don't have per-layer color yet, but it's definitely a mood.

ok i inlined the sampling for all upper bookended layers, and they cast drop shadows now (onto terrain only) and my new rendering function is still only at 12ms! that's really promising, net was 30 for terrain + two bookended pairs before. time to render them.

trying some interesting bitwise color manipulation tricks

i also wanted to at least try doing screen space dithered shadows. i you could finesse this various ways, but this is a good indication of what it might feel like. i like the brightness and cleanliness of it. the light feels good but the volumes suffer, i think.

ok it's buggy, but i did mostly get cloud scrolling working. unfortunately, it ends up breaking a lot of my optimizations (up to 25 ms per frame from 17), so i'll have to leave it on the cutting room floor for now.

bsky was broken last night, but i made a cute video of the first time my computer turned on for y'all! i wanted to say thank you immensely to everyone who helped w/ tech or Linux questions or who contributed when i was fundraising this. i am going to make so much art on this thing <3

this sort of thing is honestly such a huge part of why doing game development is so wonderful.

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