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The Engine is Ready!
🕑 Added 2022-10-22 04:09:52 +0000 UTCThe Final Destination Engine, the first fully computational engine for 2D math-born graphics in the entire world (as far as I know) is ready!
Witness its first render: Simple Paige!
I know i know i know.... Its just a turn table, flat shaded, kind of janky on some angles and stuff... But it is just the beginning! The proof of the concept!
Read on, dear supporter!
To catch you all up on it:
What does it do? It uses math to make two dimensional images! Something like signed distance fields, but for 2D!
But why? Because then it can do spooky things to them, like rotating the content of a 2D illustration in three dimensions, just like in the video above!
That is not possible... Then see for yourself! Watch the video! (turn on the audio for the gag!)
What is this trickery?! It is very simple. The engine takes the 2D drawing and a model as input, does the hard math, shape-shifts into a 3D engine, does more hard math, then flattens itself into a 2D engine that does what you first instructed it to do, like spin it round!
But... Why...? I dont know... At the time it felt like an interesting gimmick, very mad-scientistsy.... I think I can use it for games and stuff though.
Games and stuff? Yes! I want to make a full-but-small respectable-but-lewd game! As fast as possible! Butt-first, I want to see how far I can take it in the animation department in, lets say, 9 days...
Very specific... Spooky month is not over! 9 days to go! Lets see what this bad bot can do in crunch mode! I already have the illustrations, all thats left is to feed them to the engine and see how much I can make them sway! Nine days is not much and I will miss the deadline in 99/100 timelines, but November can be pretty spooky as well, so no big problem right...... he he he he he~~~
So, the next piece of content is... A lewd animation! Probably just a short loop, I only have 9 days to make it! Gotta go!
What do you think of the results? It is still a bit janky but I have decided to embrace the jank instead of fighting it. I am going to become the champion of jank if it means I get stuff done monthly this time! Still gotta go! See you real soon!!!!!
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For my dearest old time supporters, if you were expecting a giant wall of text like all the last times, I am sorry to disappoint, hehe. There are millions of things I could tell you about all the things I learned while developing the engine, all the interesting ideas that popped up, the twists and turns, and I could fill ten pages or more with just this last days.
But!
I dont want to make walls of text anymore. I want to make youtube videos! But for that I need to get the gear like a mic and stuff. I bought it all when I joined this project, but I ended up having to sell them. I promise as soon as I can I will re-buy them and tell you all the tales of building this crazy thing from nothing but the stupidest idea!
I know the original plan was to make a full 180 degree spin, but to do that I would need to double up my time working on Simple-Paige, and you know... I guess you guys want games and animations and stuff right? Not any more tech demos! So I am going to skip the test cases and go straight to the good stuff head-first!
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If you wanna learn about it, talk to me, ask me questions, see whats coming next, come buzz me on the Discord, send me a DM, whatever is fine!
