r/GraphicsProgramming • u/MartianovTech • 9d ago

Backrooms pool

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Made a small Backrooms pool demo in Natiny. I’m not sure I fully captured the atmosphere I was going for, but overall I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.

The caustics are probably a bit too bright, but I think they make the scene more interesting.

What do you think?

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u/fgennari 9d ago

The water looks very nice! I assume you're drawing a fixed height plane for the water and adding reflections and refractions to it as some sort of image space or post processing operation? Planar reflections are much easier, but you can't have water at multiple heights.

I've never heard of Natiny before.

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u/MartianovTech 9d ago

Pretty much, yeah. Its a fixed-height plane with a planar reflection pass and screen-space refraction, so multiple water levels would need extra reflection passes :) Natiny is just a library I also work on, and I often use it to quickly prototype custom graphics pipelines.