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yeah I don't know much about dead by daylight

I thought it was its own thing a sort of indie game

it's a dead by daylight game

oh wow I just re-read the title after you said that

I'll date one if I must

well as long as they're neutral good murderers or at least chaotic good murderers they're ok in my book

right now all I know is "I want raytracing and I have an rtx card and nvidia does special raytracing on rtx cards, let's go"

there's a lot more to learn about the technology in general but I'm keeping links for later

spent an entire day building up to displaying a triangle

I mean what used to be a few dozen lines of code turned into 1000 >.> and it's just setup

yup

nvidia, amd and any other opengl driver vendors would have to implement them

yeah if opengl were to define its own idea of raytracing in its own api then yeah what you said is true

I was more focused on the nvidia exclusive rtx thing

yeah that would be one way

aaah you mean for opengl to define its own flavor of raytracing that is independent of card/driver vendor

well that's exciting

@Almo ooo a dating sim with... murderers?

it's sort of how libraries work usually, as the library developer you make yourself work with the rest of the world, you don't ask the rest of the world to customize themselves for you

when it should be nvidia plugging themselves into the ecosystem

that seems the other way around to me, I'd expect nvidia to ship their own libraries to call into that work with opengl, otherwise nvidia would depend on opengl to tell them what to support

yup, basically and it's up to nvidia to offer it

whereas for vulkan: nvpro-samples.github.io/vk_raytracing_tutorial_KHR <- official tutorial

and the best test: "nvidia rtx ray tracing opengl tutorial" (you may also replace tutorial with something else or remove it entirely), does not give any results on google

I could be wrong, but from what I've looked and looked fairly hard, there is no API for that specific feature for opengl

but first, the fun

or some other raytracing solution

so I'll think about end-users of the game after I've had my fun, will probably write a non-raytraced version

but yes, I'm also super excited about using vulkan and actually writing code that directly targets my rtx card lol

the khronos guys said vulkan won't cause opengl to be deprecated anytime soon but I think opengl being kept out of stuff like advanced raytracing by e.g. nvidia will do it eventually

so I might have to figure out a way to make that work quickly

which is probably for the best because a special feature I'd like to implement is for the player to place cameras around the world and then see their output on screens in the game, to inspect what happens around the world/what his stuff is doing

but then I found out that nvidia rtx does not support opengl so... vulkan it is I guess

I'm trying to write my own engine for what would be a sandboxy game with voxel based terrain (like no man's sky) and because I'd like it to, raytracing

I'm hard at work writing a vulkan renderer for what used to be opengl, which is not necessarily fun because all I'm doing is try to make what was already there work again >.> and boy is this API extreme. but it looks to be lots of fun when it comes to finding interesting ways to optimize, right now that's not the case for me

making an engine is exciting work, it's easy to forget about why you're doing it lol

I guess I'll join the "find a version of unity that works and stick with it for that project" crowd lol

I kept upgrading unity LTS over the years and somewhere along the line something happened and for just that project unity keeps hanging randomly

my current project is pretty much compromised at least for the foreseeable future, which is not a tragedy because it achieved what it set out to do but it's still a pity

html + css would be a huge time saver if it works ok

UI is always the slowest and most tedious thing to work with

@Evorlor ty, if it's good I might try it for my next project

but when they first presented it years ago it looked really cool, writing your guis in a html-like language and then using css to style

I hope I didn't get your hopes up for nothing just in case it's been abandoned/left behind/discontinued :( I haven't heard that much about it in a while

I don't remember if unity has a way for you to say UIParentGameObject.EventThatFiresWhenSomethingIsAddedToIt += ... so you could be notified in a ThemingManager of new UI elements being added

it's probably what I would try? it gives you the flexibility of having a separate component added to an UI element without one (since the original had an Image anyway)

I wonder if you could make your own class ThemedImage : Image that can respond to the currently selected theme, or at least register itself on creation/destruction with a ThemingManager which will apply colors to it @Evorlor hmm

I tried it years ago and it was unusable, no idea about their state now

I have no idea if they work correctly now or not, but unity's "new" ui system uses something like CSS for styling - that would be the simplest, new theme = new CSS

any this.GetComponent<Image>() can be replaced by a referencedGameObject.GetComponent<Image>() in another class