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Homies: Ride or Die
Last week I got wheels rotating. Since then I've also added steering.
In the meantime I learned it doesn't work on my laptop at all since my GPU on that is much weaker. I traced it down to the skydome rendering and added a flag so I could disable it while away from my desktop. Not sure why it pwns the GPU so much. The skydome isn't particularly high res but perhaps I tesselated it into way way too many triangles. Time to dust off the Blender workflow again.
Separately I noticed there's a problem with how the wheels spin and play with the ambient sunlight. The light appears to get painted onto one section of the wheel and it spins around the wheel with it, which is obviously wrong.
I spent a few days on this and haven't made much progress. I'm kind of pulling my hair out.
There's clearly something wrong with matrix math but not entirely sure what. I first SRT (scale rotate translate) the car from world space into view space. Before I submit that rendering, I detect if a given submesh involves a wheel and do a further R to the matrix. This makes the wheels rotate perfectly with velocity, but I guess screws the lighting calculations up. Maybe the matrix math accidentally works for vertex shading but not normals calculation, though I think I'm doing the right things to isolate them.
I would add debug printfs but half of this shit is happening in the bgfx shader language so my debugging visibility is limited. Maybe there are tools for this...
TRON bike lighting
Slow progress. Forgot that I needed more JST-SM 4 pin connectors, so placed an order. Then I remembered that soldering even a few spots gives me a scratchy throat and maybe a headache and it could be because I'm breathing in the soldering smoke from having my face so close to it. So, I need an extractor fan.
Of course I couldn't just buy an extractor fan like a normal person, because I stumbled across a DIY one in this Great Scott video right when I realized this.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nb78wF1Tkwc&t=55s
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