Dev Diaries 1: Shaders
Shaders. Why am I looking at shaders? I guess it must be that time of year again. The time where the sun starts to stay out a little longer, birds occasionally ruin my car, and most importantly, the time where I have to come face-to-face with creating custom shaders inside of a 3D game engine. I hate shaders. I don’t even like the word. Shaders . The syllables give me shivers. It taunts me like a kid giving me the side eye at a spelling bee after he gets the word 'tessellation'. I hate that kid. Alright, maybe hate is too strong of a word. I like to think, often in situations like these, frustration is rooted in a lack of understanding. So maybe I just don’t understand shaders, and when I do understand them, I’ll love them. Maybe I'll date a shader, get married and we can name our firstborn 'Volumetric' or something like that. It’s unlikely. So how did I end up here? Too much curiosity I suppose. I assume due to a bad upbringing or too much sugar in my diet. B...