What Is Shell Texturing? #gamedev #graphics #shaders

Shell texturing is an incredibly powerful yet simple graphics technique for rendering fur and other complex volumes!

Music:
Sandgem Town - Pokemon

Thanks for watching!

This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx.

[Zheph]

Shorts like this are actually really good. Quick rundowns on techniques to say "this exists" that helps me know what I don't know.

[fgrey-]

you have singlehandedly gotten me into graphics programming

[benflightart]

The modern equivalent of shell texturing would be parallax occlusion mapping which is still used in lieu of displacement today.

[ryu_lidu]

Was surprisingly easy to implement, really cool stuff

[savagesarethebest]

I am quite proud of that I came up with this technique myself in my early teens. And that's 20 years ago when information was far from the way it is today

[LPSORBIT]

why you gotta give me ptsd with the thumbnail

[yhiz]

Bro I've literally been losing my mind over this after seeing it in genshin IT LOOKS SO GOOD

[dennydravis]

Another example of shell texturing is ksp's re-entry effect, which is notable for being a dynamic shell mesh

[quakxy_dukx]

I recently learned about this technique from an indie game dev I found

[sly_cat]

I feel like the artifacts could be used to get that 2000’s era vibe.

[jacobbaer]

Is that background music from pokemon diamond and pearl?

[baustistademartin]

Coincidentally, when you started talking about performance and quality, the video quality dropped to 144p xdd

[gouthameow]

Thanks for using the Courage the Cowardly Dog "you're not perfect" monster for "not perfect" 💙

[ddnava]

Conket Live and Reloaded uses this too

[InnocentMage]

But aceollaaa, I didn't know you made shorts 😂

[Internetzspacezshipz]

Is this the same thing as parallax occlusion mapping (POM)?

[alanmix]

super mario galaxy (maybe 2?) has the best application of this method i've ever seen, on the bee boss

[rodtronics]

still had to work out for myself what it actually is

[mitzzzu_tigerjones]

When over 1000 people are willing to give you a thumbs up but only 20 or so are willing to comment ❤

Thanks, I learned something new about SOC

[jimmyhirr]

"in reality it's just an illusion" shouldn't be a problem. Every rendering technique is an illusion.