Even by your standards, this looks insane as a solo project. Best of luck with the sales.

Even by your standards, this looks insane as a solo project. Best of luck with the sales.

Thanks man, I think this will be lost on the end-user though, I appreciate your comments as a guy who knows what it takes to make "the pixels-dance" lol.

- Dan

Ah, yes, users. Who try to play with a cheap onboard GPU and complain you didn't "optimise things" enough.

Wow, looks nice! It's really impressive that you wrote the engine yourself, I know how much work that takes!

The only thing that noticeably stands out and bothers me slightly is that when the camera is moving through the rain and snow, the rain and snow particles move with the camera. So if you're doing a high speed chase cam, the snow particles travel with the camera and lazily float down to the ground.

Wow, looks nice! It's really impressive that you wrote the engine yourself, I know how much work that takes!

The only thing that noticeably stands out and bothers me slightly is that when the camera is moving through the rain and snow, the rain and snow particles move with the camera. So if you're doing a high speed chase cam, the snow particles travel with the camera and lazily float down to the ground.

Yes. It is one of 50 things that bothers me about this trailer lol. :-p

It was done to solve the problem of particles spawning in front of your face, which was way more noticeable than the stationary nature of the particle system IMO.

When you're doing a totally gpu based particle system like this in a game where the camera can potentially move huge distances or very short distances, I decided it looked better in "most" situations to have the entire weather particle system shifted by the camera's origin - otherwise there were issues with gpu collision on interiors [ how the snow/rain collides w buildings and does't rain in the banks/spawns ]. Not sure how to describe it, but you could move quickly to a location and get a "dump" of particles.

The way my weather gpu particle system works is by rendering the position/velocity of each particle into "ping-ponged" velocity/position textures...This allows me to do over 1,000,000 particles, though the video shows 65,000 particles [ user can slide or select through dev console ].

I'd like to write a post about my particle/weather system in the future - the quality of the rendering will also improve in the future.

- Dan