Guide For Exporter Writers

[CTZn]

Seriously what are the fourth line and column for ?

Homogeneous coordinates. An application of a math object known as "projective spaces". Hyper-useful for rasterized 3D.

For making it short, it generalizes the transformation matrix to translations, frustum projections, etc... using a 4x4 matrix. You can combine all the transformations (rotaton, scaling, skew, translation, perspective, etc...) just by multiplying 4x4 matrices, and with the resulting 4x4 matrix you have a transformation that will change object-local vertex coordinates into screen space coordinates in one matrix-vector multiplication. Isn't that magic?

I suppose that the column/row defining perspective/frustum is the one not used by translation... matrices have simply an overhelming amount of properties, that's totally flipping. Dark magic I'm out

Whatever the word play is about Headroom I abide by. I'm just getting a better notion of the properties of multiplications...

You should know that it took me about one week to get this guy right:

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periodX = fract(
			paramTilesX() * texi() + paramMortarWidth() / 2.0
		) / paramMortarWidth() * 3.14159265

What it does is to insert half a sin wave between two tiles whatever their spacing is. I should have asked for help much earlier, every day I was certain it would be the day I'd crack it... madness.

[CTZn]

Having typed this I'm finding out that

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(b * (2.0 * b) * 50.0) * eva(pos)

is throwing an error while

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eva(pos)*(b * (2.0 * b) * 50.0)

doesn't.

Lol ?

[fused]

Having typed this I'm finding out that

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(b * (2.0 * b) * 50.0) * eva(pos)

is throwing an error while

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eva(pos)*(b * (2.0 * b) * 50.0)

doesn't.

Lol ?

The operator is defined as mul(vec3, float) so it expects arguments in that order

[CTZn]

Having typed this I'm finding out that

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(b * (2.0 * b) * 50.0) * eva(pos)

is throwing an error while

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eva(pos)*(b * (2.0 * b) * 50.0)

doesn't.

Lol ?

The operator is defined as mul(vec3, float) so it expects arguments in that order

Yup I figured that out quickly but I would not tell, I found the fact funny in this context of mathematisches war fog !

What's Headroom's joke really about ?