@orangishcat

First devlog! I’ve never made a personal website before, so I want to do it right. I’m planning to go heavy with lots of art and web design.

This is my first time ever doing art, and I quickly decided to do pixel art as it’s a lot easier than digital painting.
I’ve made a few assets and am planning to do a lot more!

In the beginning it was quite rough and my drawings looked terrible, but after a few days it turned out much better than I was expecting, and I even applied some Minecraft building concepts!

Like, for example:

• Outline first, then color, then details. The final result won’t look good if the shape isn’t right.
• Details are what turns a good Minecraft build (or drawing, in this case) great. Once you think you’re done, think about what details you could add. Then repeat. You should be able to do this a lot more times than you think, and it’s how you improve your technique. The cat asset below took ~20 revisions.
• Use a reference image, or multiple. Don’t reinvent the wheel.
• Learn basic color theory, it’s really useful.

Other than that, it just took some creativity and some trial and error.

Added option in config screen to choose the renderer, also added back frustum culling (where clouds don’t render behind the camera)

Updated the mod to 26.2 pre-4, as well as YACL 3.9.4 which also just came out earlier today. NeoForge is also out but I’m too lazy to setup their custom repo for prerelease builds so I will fix NF support when 26.2 releases.

I fixed a really annoying bug that was making the cloud ripple effect way larger in magnitude than it was supposed to be, and I added a hardcoded minimum brightness in the shader so that clouds will be just barely visible at nighttime.

the renderer looks good again! i added back the light gradient sampling, so the clouds actually turn orange during sunset and go dark at night time like they used to.

spent like 12h getting the blaze3d renderer to work. long story short, the opengl renderer is a mess and I’m doing pretty much a full rewrite to get it to work on blaze3d. it’s taking extremely long but i’m happy because i’m learning a lot about graphics. the core functionality kinda works but there are all sorts of bugs, and a bunch of features are missing. some of them i probably just won’t be adding back.

p.s. vulkan renderer so cool! performance is a lot better than opengl on my mac