Gamedev, originally a hat-juggling indie dork but now increasingly specialized in graphics programming. Day job working on surgical simulators, night job crafting artisinal Posts
avatar is by @softmode
unity has an extremely well-designed abstraction layer over the whole graphics API, exposing pretty much everything the platforms support with minimal boilerplate. It's comprehensive enough that URP/HDRP are built on top of this layer; they don't need to drop down to the closed-source C++ secret-sauce part to make full use of the GPU
like, if you want to run a compute shader, you just put it in a .hlsl file and fire it off with like 20 lines of code
what do you mean I can't pass a matrix to a material. how did you make any videogames
I would be having more fun with this engine if my Literal Job didn't consist almost exclusively of Fucking With The Parts That Epic Really Really Discourages Anyone From Fucking With
I don't actually get to use the editor I just spend all of my time enqueuing lambdas onto the completely undocumented render thread and getting upset
what do you mean I can't pass a matrix to a material. how did you make any videogames
