May 28th, 2021 Dev Vlog

Snutt & Ben Talk: Holograms now use Stencils

https://youtube.com/embed/dyqOMITwLsY?autoplay=1&start=1164&end=1287

Topics

• Technology > Graphics
• Technology > User Interface > Holograms
• Features > Save System

Transcript

stencils instead of the mesh itself so if we would show a stencil

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and what is a stencil this is a stencil so we are allowed to write an id a bit to a separate buffer and we can read that buffer in post-processing and based on that buffer we can, apply certain effects so if I would change to two three four five here we go we have different ids and if we go back into the game view there we go and then we can apply an outline to it with that effect magic dismantle effect so now you can dismantle this rock totally not a lie but this is how we can apply the hologram to this rock for example so essentially what you're doing when you're doing the hologram effect now instead is you're kind of drawing on top of the screen sort of with effect rather than it being like how everything else is rendered in the game where it's all like word space and it's yeah yeah so technically it's like putting on shades for this specific object right and I guess the limitation of doing it that way means that you can't have transparency on that object anymore because you're setting the the the frame is already drawn and you're drawing on top of the frame so it's impossible for you to know like what's behind something that's already been rendered that's the problem with it but the trade-off was so great because accidentally it also improved saving times which was not the intention but still could win I understand why after the fact but I didn't think about it when we were doing it let's say that way, and also one we'll take it you know what we'll take it okay we'll take any benefit that we can get from anything fair enough, and also one thing that