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Sebastian Aaltonen

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30 years of 3d rendering experience. Former principal engineer at Unity, Ubisoft and HypeHype.

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I am impressed about our new WebGPU WASM page load time. Whole engine loads in just a few hundreds of milliseconds. And games load pretty much instantly too.

I am impressed about our new WebGPU WASM page load time. Whole engine loads in just a few hundreds of milliseconds. And games load pretty much instantly too.

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Internal test game created by a single (senior) developer in 5 days using our new tools and engine. Uses WASM mini-engine (ECS, rendering, animations and physics). 100% AI generated assets using our new asset pipeline. Custom character controller. Slop or not?

Internal test game created by a single (senior) developer in 5 days using our new tools and engine. Uses WASM mini-engine (ECS, rendering, animations and physics). 100% AI generated assets using our new asset pipeline. Custom character controller. Slop or not?

Sebastian Aaltonen

1,195,343 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

Did a quick prototype in 3 days. Starting to feel fun. Should I continue with this direction or do something else? Visuals of course would be MUCH better in the final game. This has quickly done AI proto assets.

Did a quick prototype in 3 days. Starting to feel fun. Should I continue with this direction or do something else? Visuals of course would be MUCH better in the final game. This has quickly done AI proto assets.

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112,207 görüntüleme • 17 gün önce

2nd day final video: Now you have limited ammo. 5 rockets. So much scarier. If rockets run out, you run 50% faster. Parkour away, or use the last rocket to jump to high ground. But enemies will pile up and get you. Rocket pickups drops from the sky, forcing you to move.

2nd day final video: Now you have limited ammo. 5 rockets. So much scarier. If rockets run out, you run 50% faster. Parkour away, or use the last rocket to jump to high ground. But enemies will pile up and get you. Rocket pickups drops from the sky, forcing you to move.

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68,707 görüntüleme • 20 gün önce

SDF destruction game prototype day 1 results...

SDF destruction game prototype day 1 results...

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53,583 görüntüleme • 21 gün önce

It takes 2:25 to walk across the 8192x8192 2km^2 terrain in my WebGPU prototype. The world is way too big for 10,000 players. Nobody will see each other. Unless we have vehicles of course. I would love to have random dune buggies and ATVs around the map for players to grab :)

It takes 2:25 to walk across the 8192x8192 2km^2 terrain in my WebGPU prototype. The world is way too big for 10,000 players. Nobody will see each other. Unless we have vehicles of course. I would love to have random dune buggies and ATVs around the map for players to grab :)

Sebastian Aaltonen

266,728 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

Day 2 morning: AI roasted me about creating just a tech demo. That triggered me deeply inside, so I added 1000 enemies to the map :)

Day 2 morning: AI roasted me about creating just a tech demo. That triggered me deeply inside, so I added 1000 enemies to the map :)

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17,764 görüntüleme • 20 gün önce

The AI-SLOP saga continues: Colleague was running agents again in background to build new features to his prototype game. Now you have weapons, damage, explosions and enemies. Ragdolls driven by our new animation system (WASM SIMD). Physics is Jolt (WASM SIMD). 100% AI content.

The AI-SLOP saga continues: Colleague was running agents again in background to build new features to his prototype game. Now you have weapons, damage, explosions and enemies. Ragdolls driven by our new animation system (WASM SIMD). Physics is Jolt (WASM SIMD). 100% AI content.

Sebastian Aaltonen

51,046 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

I wrote a AI "text adventure game" (MUD) in the past two weeks. We had a "hackweek" for prototyping AI game play. Story is AI generated text. Text generator is fed the theme and previous rooms and rules for exit generation. It returns a JSON string of exits and their descriptions. Which the game then parses and sends to AI image generator and room graph system. There's also a AI written battle story generator, which gets your inventory as input. AI figures how to use your weapons and consumables. And returns JSON for managing inventory state (broken weapons, consumables, etc).

I wrote a AI "text adventure game" (MUD) in the past two weeks. We had a "hackweek" for prototyping AI game play. Story is AI generated text. Text generator is fed the theme and previous rooms and rules for exit generation. It returns a JSON string of exits and their descriptions. Which the game then parses and sends to AI image generator and room graph system. There's also a AI written battle story generator, which gets your inventory as input. AI figures how to use your weapons and consumables. And returns JSON for managing inventory state (broken weapons, consumables, etc).

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72,419 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

Teammate (another one) asked AI to create GTA:

Teammate (another one) asked AI to create GTA:

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24,745 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

My terrain proto looks so much better with actual 8192x8192 heightmap instead of the crappy gaussian noise. Implementing a lossless heightmap compressor now. The last one I wrote at Ubisoft has ~10x compression ratio. Of course I ended up writing a compressor as a side quest :)

My terrain proto looks so much better with actual 8192x8192 heightmap instead of the crappy gaussian noise. Implementing a lossless heightmap compressor now. The last one I wrote at Ubisoft has ~10x compression ratio. Of course I ended up writing a compressor as a side quest :)

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60,301 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

Going downhill in my WebGPU terrain proto. Imagine having a car... I would love to write another physics solver :)

Going downhill in my WebGPU terrain proto. Imagine having a car... I would love to write another physics solver :)

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57,420 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

Canyon heightmap (same source). It's a 4K heightmap, so I had to (bilinear) upscale to 8K. My tech only supports 8K heightmaps. My planar predictor makes the 8K map compress to only 14MB. The mountain map was 30MB.

Canyon heightmap (same source). It's a 4K heightmap, so I had to (bilinear) upscale to 8K. My tech only supports 8K heightmaps. My planar predictor makes the 8K map compress to only 14MB. The mountain map was 30MB.

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55,373 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

New WebGPU terrain build with color painting tools: This concludes my single week prototype. It was a blast! I really enjoyed doing it. Prototyping continues on Christmas vacation: - 2nd week = full 3d voxel system - 3rd week = 10,000 player multiplayer

New WebGPU terrain build with color painting tools: This concludes my single week prototype. It was a blast! I really enjoyed doing it. Prototyping continues on Christmas vacation: - 2nd week = full 3d voxel system - 3rd week = 10,000 player multiplayer

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45,049 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

WebGPU terrain compute ray-tracer update: Floating point precision bug is fixed. It was Codex written code. It used a full 4x4 inverse to transform NDC far to world space and subtracted camera world. Now using fast/stable two param NCD->view formulation.

WebGPU terrain compute ray-tracer update: Floating point precision bug is fixed. It was Codex written code. It used a full 4x4 inverse to transform NDC far to world space and subtracted camera world. Now using fast/stable two param NCD->view formulation.

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40,742 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

HypeHype WebGPU/WASM browser game loading time test v2. This time with bigger games. The engine itself loads in less than 1 second. When you scroll the feed it preloads next game. Our WASM build doesn't have threading (web workers) yet -> loading blocks between games.

HypeHype WebGPU/WASM browser game loading time test v2. This time with bigger games. The engine itself loads in less than 1 second. When you scroll the feed it preloads next game. Our WASM build doesn't have threading (web workers) yet -> loading blocks between games.

Sebastian Aaltonen

49,911 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce

We had internal PBR pipeline demo this morning. This is running 60 fps on iPhone 6s (medium GPU clock rate) and the device stays cool. Still missing all ambient occlusion tech (large scale and SSAO). All demo content was made in one week by Daniel Palmi.

We had internal PBR pipeline demo this morning. This is running 60 fps on iPhone 6s (medium GPU clock rate) and the device stays cool. Still missing all ambient occlusion tech (large scale and SSAO). All demo content was made in one week by Daniel Palmi.

Sebastian Aaltonen @ SIGGRAPH

30,488 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

HypeHype on a 3 year old 99€ Android phone (Mali G57 MP2). Game made by a colleague as a hobby project during the summer. Frame rate hovers at around 50 fps. Everything I mentioned in my SIGGRAPH talk is enabled: PBR, GTAO, cascaded shadows, post processing...

HypeHype on a 3 year old 99€ Android phone (Mali G57 MP2). Game made by a colleague as a hobby project during the summer. Frame rate hovers at around 50 fps. Everything I mentioned in my SIGGRAPH talk is enabled: PBR, GTAO, cascaded shadows, post processing...

Sebastian Aaltonen @ SIGGRAPH

24,024 görüntüleme • 2 yıl önce

WebGPU proto: Testing a mortar...

WebGPU proto: Testing a mortar...

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11,876 görüntüleme • 9 ay önce

Indoor scenes in HypeHype are starting to look acceptable. This has no baked lighting. Only a single oct-map (conv.mips) for indirect specular and diffuse, masked with screen space AO (GTAO). No sunlight and no local lights (local lights are coming in a few months). Game by Allu

Indoor scenes in HypeHype are starting to look acceptable. This has no baked lighting. Only a single oct-map (conv.mips) for indirect specular and diffuse, masked with screen space AO (GTAO). No sunlight and no local lights (local lights are coming in a few months). Game by Allu

Sebastian Aaltonen

14,705 görüntüleme • 1 yıl önce