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0 pointssoup107y ago0 comments

i wanted to like unity but not having low level access to the rendering and physics internals is intolerable.

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1. What aspect of the rendering did you feel you didn't have control over with your own vertex, fragment, and compute shaders?

2. You can hook into most if not all of the physics internals by overriding Update() and FixedUpdate() functions.

Unity is definitely less flexible and powerful than rolling an AAA 3D engine and editor.. But that takes years, and 95% of the time there's a way to solve the problem in Unity.

krapp7y ago

Yes, but given what we're talking about, a basic old-school first person shooter, you could do it in far fewer than "years" with C++, SDL2 and OpenGL.

soup10OP7y ago

1. the primary issue is you can't properly optimize rendering and if what you want to do doesn't fit neatly into unity's architecture its gonna be dog slow and your gonna spend forever writing hacks and work arounds to get it to work.

you don't have to roll your own everything for a custom 3d engine, theres a lot of libraries out there. the idea that everyone should use tooling that reminds me of visual basic to make games is weird to me.

2. i don't know about that. my experience is that you don't have easy access to the actual physics code

blueboo7y ago

This is the kind of misguided mindset that effectively discourages people from making games. It’s as if someone urged people to look into lumber and the papermaking en route to making their own card game.

This fellow’s mindset is a common one, and likely he’s passing it on from his own experience...Telling that engineering culture discourages the shortest routes to creativity

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