Liblast6d ago

For a long time I wanted to try and make some blinking lights.

"What's so special about that?" I hear you say. Well, you see - real server racks or nuclear power plant control consoles don't blink completely randomly. There's intricate relationships between individual lights, rows of lights, entire racks... and the time factor.

I have created a texture storing 256 different patters. Special UV layout + vertex colors + of course a special shader and we can have this:

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Show threadEfi (nap pet) 🦊💤
@liblast four data channels? I assume you made it taller for visibility?
Mar 19 at 7:13pmWeb
Show threadLiblast6d ago
@efi yes, every row of pixels is stretched to 4 pixels here, for the sake of convenience, and also giving some leeway to artists. Otherwise, texture filtering might cause inter-row bleed which could turn blinking into wandering. I do want to use linear filtering to smooth out the motion, though. The shader has a parameter to apply a harden the threshold to make blinking more snappy. I'm really happy with the result!
Show threadEfi (nap pet) 🦊💤6d ago
@liblast it is a very interesting idea and if I ever need a 60s computer model I'll remember this =3