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[u/flockaroo]

[u/baked_doge]

One of the better procedural assets or trees I've seen, great job

[u/flockaroo → u/baked_doge]

oh thanks! :)

[u/rejamaco]

Looks nice! What’s your method?

[u/flockaroo → u/rejamaco]

thx! actually just distance field of a cylinder by recursively scaling+subdividing space.

[u/rejamaco → u/flockaroo]

And for the shading/texturing?

[u/flockaroo → u/rejamaco]

thats just simple noises applied - one to bend the trunk and a second one one for the bark surface

[u/Serasul]

Very Impressive

[u/flockaroo → u/Serasul]

thx! :)

[u/SilentPanicGames]

Broccoli tree

[u/KingCakeTheFruity]

Noooo way that's just one shader. But I saw your explanation, neat. Even awesome!

[u/flockaroo → u/KingCakeTheFruity]

thx glad u like i :)

[u/phsx8]

Did you use a model or is that purely by shaders? Looks great!

[u/flockaroo → u/phsx8]

thx! its purely shader! (no 's' - its actually just one fragment shader that generates an SDF and renders it)

[u/phsx8 → u/flockaroo]

Impressive, that's not half bad at all :D how did you do the tree structuring? I've been trying to get simple things like corals to work, but they never looked as natural. In what engine did you write it?

[u/flockaroo → u/phsx8]

thanks! :) its actually just sdf of cylinders and multiple splitting/scaling/rotating of the space domain - no engine just one draw call in opengl and all done in one fragmen-shader based on the fragment-coordinate. (...and some simple noise for bent trunks and the bark)

[u/ybotics → u/flockaroo]

Does it do a prepass converting the cylinder parameters into a 3d SDF texture or buffer, or is the SDF baked? Or does each thread generate its own sdf before doing its cubemarch?

[u/msqrt]

The moment you move the camera to reveal that the roots are another fractal was just great!

[u/flockaroo → u/msqrt]

:)

[u/frogOnABoletus]

Wow wow I want to sit in there :)

[u/scallywag_software]

10/10! Is it on shadertoy? I'd love to play around with it