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Shaders really are quite amazing. They can do anything. Absolutely anything.

ReFreezed wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 11:32 pm Shaders really are quite amazing. They can do anything. Absolutely anything.

This gave me a laugh

ReFreezed wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 11:32 pm Shaders really are quite amazing. They can do anything. Absolutely anything.

OMG that got painful. He could have probably done it with shaders, though. Making 7 perpendicular red lines with blue and transparent ink is child's play in shaders. And 4-5 extra dimensions.

pgimeno wrote: ↑Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:34 pm I hope darkfrei was being sarcastic, but with Poe's law, you never know

I saw Minecraft on shaders: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ds3WS

darkfrei wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 1:47 pm I saw Minecraft on shaders: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4ds3WS

Drawing a bunch of cubes with pixelated textures is not even 0.001% of what is required to make a game like Minecraft work.

Likewise, drawing stuff in a way that makes it wrap around one or more axes is often trivial, but you still have to deal with all that other stuff that makes a game a game. You know, the rest of the fucking owl.

Even assuming the game could be made to run on a shader (?), you would still need to implement the wrapping logic in the shader, and then what ReFreezed said applies once again.