Tiny3D - Frustum Culling [N64 Homebrew]

This new example project shows how to perform culling with tiny3d.
In addition new frustum functions where added as well as an option to generate a BVH at build-time.
More information in the N64Brew discord: / discord
Repo: github.com/Hai...
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Music: snowfield_of_angelmechs - John Oestmann
3D Models: (CC BY 4.0):
Block-World: sketchfab.com/...
Platformer: Floatland_01" (skfb.ly/o8K6t) by eakka

[@johnoestmannmusic]

Very cool to see my music paired with such interesting homebrew dev. Cheers - subscribed!

[@hailtododongo]

Thanks! Really love your music, i'm also really grateful that you release it under CC0

[@shadowman_390]

A must have for a good performing game. Thank you for your service.

[@makeavoy]

I've been writing a rustlang retro-esque game engine for a couple years and i gotta say I feel like such a hack when I see these actually retro, real n64 engines coming out of the woodwork. It's awe-inspiring and nothing short of amazing the work that goes into these, keep up the incredible work!

[@averyangrygardengnome]

This is all waaay above my head but I know enough to know it's damn impressive

[@techlm76]

Frustum Culling is when you only render/load within the camera's perspective and the blocks (assuming polygons) that is outside the camera's view will not be loaded nor rendered, making the system resource lightweight and smooth. Without Frustum Culling, it will have a heavy resource. Making everything rendered/loaded around you (even behind you) which will cause the performance to drop by a lot and become unstable. I hope this helps :)

[@averyangrygardengnome]

@@techlm76 Oooh tysm for the answer! I was aware of the concept but not the term. Doing that on the N64 seems like a huge leap in performance

[@EWARS_2]

No way, Minceraft on my Nindento 64?! Very cool and fast rendering

[@loxo5526]

Keep in mind that SM64 rarely reached 30 FPS that's with like 1/10 of the triangles

[@LaskyLabs]

Mario 64 was made early in the console's life. SGI made the hardware, and they're an American company. So early Japanese developer documents weren't nearly as robust as they later became. The Mario head on the title screen was coded by Giles Goddard, an American. Not to say he isn't already very smart, but he had an advantage, his developer documentation wasn't rush translated into his native tongue.

[@fujiwaranovari]

The N64 can actually render a lot of triangles, but it's bandwidth is incredibly limited, that is mainly what causes the lag in these games

[@gamagama69]

it was an early game, we have all sorts of modern optimizations now that the hardware has been released for almost 30 years

[@trunkit8749]

Mario 64 is an unoptimized mess. You should check out Kaze Emanuar, he’s been able to optimize their code into 60fps with more objects and polygons than the original

[@loxo5526]

@@gamagama69 That's the point! It's crazy to think how far we have come with the same hardware

[@Urotsuki]

meow meanwhile simple vrchat worlds with as low as 30k tris lag so much on quest 2

[@averyangrygardengnome]

Hey I really enjoyed your Fairy Tale Woods: Apple House song!

[@Urotsuki]

@@averyangrygardengnome really O: thank you so much!!!

[@pacomatic9833]

VRChat allows a lot of customization, so maybe it's the other players' avatars? Maybe the world is unoptimized? And, for sure, lots of it is the Quest 2 being super weak (was already weak on launch)

[@Urotsuki]

@@pacomatic9833 true! it’s many aspects usually like shaders and such as well so maybe it’s a bit exaggerated but having made super simple worlds myself the performance can be so 🤏hence why this is so impressive to see

[@PrettyBlueThings]

Incredible

[@God_of_Thieves]

This is peak

[@happyfarmer6429]

This is really cool! Just wondering, would back-face culling and LOD be something to be supported by a microcode, or would it simply be processed in the CPU by the game application?

[@retromodeler64]

Nice Job 😀

[@UltimatePerfection]

Avoid overdraw at any cost. Overdraw is extremely expensive on N64.

[@lincruste]

What is overdraw ?

[@UltimatePerfection]

@lincruste When the game renders stuff on top of already rendered stuff instead of just avoiding rendering stuff that would be hidden by the stuff in front of it in the first place.

[@lincruste]

@UltimatePerfection ho, right, thank you

[@Sanker1]

that's pretty cool

[@Darkho1y]

It's amazing how we take hardware frustum culling for granted these days. Do i see correctly you also cull stuff behind occluders thanks to BVH?

[@pekkavaa]

Great work! Do you draw each line of the wireframe view as two triangles?

[@hailtododongo]

For the wireframe specifically i'm drawing it on the CPU. Something you should only really do for debugging purposes though 😄

[@guillaumefigarella1704]

when can i expect the minecraft port? no really this is amazing, completely amazing, do you have a flashcart to recommend? i really want to see it on real hardware

[@Bunny_bax]

Bro put minecraft on the N64 before gta 6

[@bigboysdotcom745]

Bro hyping another mid gta game before gta6💀💀💀

[@jimreed8576]

Where do I apply to provide graphics for this game?

[@M1XART]

At times you're hitting over 600K/sec! Seems very well balanced engine to me! Even theoretical maximum performance.

[@abdullahajeebi]

MC64.

[@graalcloud]

Gaystation could never

[@sebastiankulche]

This is a tech demo.