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3D Pixel Art Rendering

Tue, 24 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

I have developed a 3D pixel art style in the Godot engine, inspired by t3ssel8r’s work in Unity. In this article, I explain how a number of visual effects come together to create this pleasing aesthetic.

Please note: This was all created with a custom Godot build based on v4.3, so the limitations of the engine are only relevant to that official version and future versions will eventually improve things, hopefully around scriptable rendering.

Starting with C

Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I have written a small sample application with C that renders a colour to the screen using DirectX 12. In this article I will cover my motivations for using C, how to compile C with Zig, and a few interesting and difficult things I’ve encountered.

Why C

I am going back to basics, to learn the fundamentals of working with C and system libraries. In the past 10 years I’ve programmed many websites with JavaScript, TypeScript, and PHP; developed games with C++, C#, GDScript, and Rust; and explored toy programs with Elixir, Go, Zig, and Odin. While I look forward to using a few of those languages more, C was the first programming language I used at university, and almost every system I want to interface with has a C header of some sorts. So for simplicity’s sake, I’m starting with C.

A website

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This is indeed a website.

I just wanted somewhere to write an article that was my own. And, eventually I will do that. This is simply the first flag in the titular ground that is The Web.

Bye.