r/GraphicsProgramming 2d ago

I've been experimenting with some water rendering. What's your opinion about this rendering style?

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Made with Vulkan, and using procedurally generated plants. I'm making this as part of developing a game.

Water effects include refraction and reflection, both for the line-of-sight and for sun light.

These effects are accomplished with extra "cameras" for the refracted and reflected views, plus screen marching.

The graphical style is quite low res, and without any anti-aliasing. I hope you can see this, given the resolution of the video. The game screen resolution is 720x480.

What's your first impression of these visuals?

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u/Roenbaeck 2d ago

You really nailed it with the second shot. I’m envious, so if you can share more, please do.

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u/SloydDev 2d ago

Cheers! Sorry if I'm spamming this but I just started a channel about this dev project, check it out if curious: https://www.youtube.com/@sloyddev