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4KB using directx/opengl, very different from old time writing stuff directly in the video card.
Exactly, 4kb on top of the hundreds of megabytes of libraries and drivers.
I'd say this is quite an achievement anyway when I know I'd use more space than that just to store a single jpeg or mp3 sample.
Here's their release of how they made it as well. Super interesting read. It's shaders all the way down. http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/function2009/function...
Ha, that's my exact comment from the related reddit thread. Kinda cool, I wonder how often that happens? https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4msf41/elevate...
Here's their release of how they made it as well. Super interesting read. It's shaders all the way down. http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/function2009/function...
Ha, that's my exact comment from the related reddit thread. Kinda cool, I wonder how often that happens? https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4msf41/elevate...
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Exactly, 4kb on top of the hundreds of megabytes of libraries and drivers.
Somehow you make it sound easy or even belittling it. I'd say this is quite an achievement anyway when I know I'd use more space than that just to store a single jpeg or mp3 sample.
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Conspiracies 64kb demo from earlier this year is fantastic too. http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=67106 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRVTI2y0BBg
How in the heck did they do that in 64kb That is mind blowing. Leaves quivering on a branch, realistic flames, realistic humans! The water wasn't quite right but still.
The flames are very simple particles, the flame effect is probably the simplest particle effect you can do. The particle scene is blurred though before rendering the human figure, so the irregularities are not that visible.
The humans are simple black+white cutouts (they might be even stored as a single bit per pixel) with a small "light edge" on the side (most likely applied as an effect and not part of the data). It isn't very visible in the YouTube video because the compression smears a bit the scene, but if you run the demo locally you'll easily see it.
The intro isn't that high tech (compared to other intros of course), but Conspiracy are masters of presentation - the scene with the humans, leaves, mountains, house, etc wouldn't look as good as they do if it wasn't for the color grading, the camera motion and framing, the post processing and even the sequence the scenes are presented.
It's great that it's open source now! That means if someone's really motivated, they can update it to run on modern environments (by no longer keeping it 4 KB), even OS X, etc.
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I've seen it happen on YouTube (not to me); highly upvoted comments get copy/pasted a month or two later to "steal" upvotes for someone else. It could be a bot tactic to build accounts with karma that can later be used for astroturfing, using proven comments from elsewhere. Maybe governments and organized astroturfers have automated that sort of thing more than we think.
Nail, meet hammer.
Most programming jobs must feel terribly boring for anyone who managed to write that.
fr-041: Debris [2], and kkrieger [3] (the 96kb FPS) are particularly worth checking out for the uninitiated.
[1] https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public
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4KB using directx/opengl, very different from old time writing stuff directly in the video card.
Exactly, 4kb on top of the hundreds of megabytes of libraries and drivers.