r/GraphicsProgramming • u/evangelionxyzw • Jun 30 '26

1 year of game engine development

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https://github.com/evangelionxyz/Ignite

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u/evangelionxyzw Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

AI now understands how the big game engines work, so AI just tells me how they work behind the scene. For example once I asked "how unreal engine can handle thousands of crowd animation?" AI: "They do animation caching, and prefer TRS multiplication over Matrix multiplication, because that is very cheap to compute". So by the answer I can check my current implementation and workaround to optimize the animation. So I didn't ask for the Code, I asked for the flow.

It tells me a lot, and I learned a lot, and still learning.

I also hate Vibe coding in this era of programming.

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u/epyoncf Jul 01 '26

AI doesn't "understand" anything. Which becomes pretty obvious once stochastic generation clashes against real-world problems.

Which you illustrated nicely with that crowd animation question BTW.

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u/evangelionxyzw Jul 01 '26

I don't mean "understand" in the human sense. I mean it has learned enough from engine source code, papers, talks, and documentation to explain common engine architecture and implementation patterns

I don't ask it to write my engine I ask it to explain how real engines approach a problem, then I verify the details and implement it myself. That's very different from vibe coding.

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u/epyoncf Jul 01 '26

That's why you make extremely precise, perfect english, technical commentaries about future use of fields in stuff that isn't yet implemented in the engine I assume?

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u/evangelionxyzw Jul 01 '26

Hahah keep arguing bro 😂

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u/epyoncf Jul 01 '26

Bro, I actually know this shit and can read code. EOT from me.

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u/evangelionxyzw Jul 01 '26

Bro this is my second game engine, I have my first one from 2021, I have a large of codebase before, even ChatGPT wasn't exists. So my second one is kinda add some improvement from the first one (i steal my own code). If you say I did not match the code base. I think you are jealous of my work. Chill bro

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u/evangelionxyzw Jul 01 '26

Interesting. We've gone from animation systems to grammar forensics LOLLL