God Rays in 3D Pixel Art Game Engine

Date of Recording: 2021-01-23

Using the light-space shadow map of the sun, I can project some quads on the scene to compute sunbeams (god rays) with just some texture sampling, without the need to do any raycasting or raytracing. This effect can then be modulated by the camera angle, time of day, and rain density, to create some pretty nice atmospheric effects. Hard edges on the rays helps to preserve the crisp, pixel art aesthetic.

[noelfletcher]

I've never seen a 3d pixel art game look this good, probably because I could tell that all that was done was putting pixel art textures on low poly models. But THIS?! This looks like a SNES actually got possessed by an angel.

[fearian]

This is a killer art style, when the camera moved, it was honestly like magic. Well done.

[patrickfoxchild]

I will buy whatever this game becomes.

[PandaBazookaWarz]

I feel pretty lucky to just have stumbled upon this considering how little views this has. You should really consider sharing this around. It's really inspiring!

[davdev]

Oh man. That rotation is even more impressive to look at, you should do that on every video showing your engine. Nice job!

[DiegoShinoda]

Everything about this is super Those shadows 👌🏼👌🏼 those rain particles 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 and of course The Godrays 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼. Keep it up! Great job!!

[oscarlundin]

YES!, I wan't this! I've been researching the possibilities of doing something like this for a couple of months. this is were pixel art needs to go

[zib]

This is honest to god the most GORGEOUS pixel art style I've ever seen. And the fact that the textures are procedurally generated makes it even more awesome!

[trotu]

This is beautiful. I hope you are going to release your game one day.

[MoonMoonStarBass]

i just noticed that you uploaded this yesterday lol nice. im looking for ideas like this and doing research. good job!

[GonziHere]

Going through your videos right now and thus one takes a cake. Amazing.

[mrrexrose]

it's beautiful, that style seems wonderful to me <3

[igrb]

Your work is so mindblowing I keep coming back to these videos and even after watching them dozens of times I'm still amazed. This looks SO FUCKING GOOD

[russellejuliusquerimit]

so good!!
style and the lighting and everything is just wonderful

[ham-n-jam]

looking through all ur vids and mate this is legit the best looking game ive ever seen god DAMN

keep up the good stuff, looking forward to seeing more :)))

[sebaspi]

It looks awesome been following you a couple of months ago and the game is getting better by each video, i am learning game dev slowly and would love to be as good as you one day!

[noxabellus]

This is seriously flipping gorgeous wow

[jamesking]

This is beautiful. Every frame looks hand drawn. You're a sorcerer.

[baraksmash]

That's amazing!
Subscribed. Anticipating for your game!

[stealthriot]

Absolutely gorgeous! Xenogears instantly came to mind! ^-^