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Rune Skovbo Johansen
@runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Indie game developer, procedural generation enthusiast, Dane in Finland. I made Eye of the Temple, now working on The Big Forest.
The tree leaves are now swaying in the wind. The "Grasslands - Stylized Nature" pack the trees are from actually already included a wind effect, but I implemented some simple tweaks to make it more to my liking. What do you think?
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Here's a fly-by with the new trees. The fact that they cast/receive shadows even in the distance makes a huge difference compared to the old Unity billboard ones, which destroyed the sense of depth in the distance.
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(Video of old trees here: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@runevision/112186261304893345)
When I first used the new tree models, nothing felt satisfying to me anymore. It took me long to tweak misc aspects of the trees to isolate what it was I liked better about the old trees, to be able to replicate the same feeling with the new models. Here's how they first looked vs how they look now.
I've long needed to scrap Unity's built-in tree imposters which don't support shadows and use octahedral impostors plus GPU instancing instead. The tree models I used don't work with that (and look too small anyway), so had to find new tree models too. Finally found a combo that might work? #gamedev
Notes on atmospheric perspective and distant mountains
https://blog.runevision.com/2025/06/notes-on-atmospheric-perspective-and.html
On my recent vacation in Japan, I had ample opportunities to study views with distant mountains. And something about the shades at different distances clicked for me that’s now obvious in retrospect.
As I write in the post, a mystical stairway up through a cedar forest gave me a weirdly strong sense of three-dimensional depth. I got a question about that from @jkaniarz which made me reflect more on the reasons. 🧵
New blog post with photos from an inspiring trip in Japan
https://blog.runevision.com/2025/06/photos-from-inspiring-trip-in-japan.html
I like to make games that take place at least partially in beautiful nature, give a sense of mystery and wonder that invites exploration, and that have environments that incorporate strong verticality. And in all of these respects, Japan delivers in spades.
Testing Mastodon and Bluesky cross-posting with https://bsky.statuzer.com/ - let's see how this goes.
While in Japan on holiday, I’m seizing the chance to do important research on aerial perspective.
