Procedural Pixel Art Trees

Date of Recording: 2020-11-08
I took a first attempt at making some procedurally generated pixel art trees. Some jagged spheres are used as shadow-casters and a bunch of randomly-placed leaf sprites are drawn over them, lit using the sphere normal. The initial results look ok, but still a bit too messy compared to artist results. I think I need to work on a more evenly-distributed sprite placement, perhaps using blue noise, like I did with the grass.

[@hypegamer347]

Wow, that's so cool! Please consider making a tutorial

[@kharerishit]

Dude this is insane!

[@controlzone1336]

Your pixel engine is insane, omg!

[@jasonplays4332]

Damn, thats gotta feel good to have done

[@rafaelfernandes4432]

reading the description, that is so clever! it looks so good too.

[@pietertalens1256]

Wow this looks so amazing!!

[@jomy10-games]

It must feel so good to walk around in that world

[@GoldenEvolution]

absolutely stunning

[@lflame8637]

Dayum. It looks like a 3d object with pixel sprite added on top it looks great.

[@ClydeOnPluto]

That's sooooooo sick! So pretty.

[@dimsx5144]

Good job dude looks very nice

[@JerryBBang]

Wow how this is so smooth

[@SherrylCursed]

stumbling on these videos is a treat

Beautiful.

[@MiloSanB]

Beautiful

[@pillowwantan3226]

You know how water refracts light? There are no light bunnies on the grass under water, which kinda makes the water look flat, and maybe a bit invisible? Plus, there is no light reflection on the surface of the water, which also makes it look flat. Otherwise, this is ridiculously amazing, I desperately want to play this game!!!

[@seanrendall5495]

Dude nice

[@sikelgaita9861]

what is the face count at the end of the tree mesh with the leaves on?

[@Erikanimations]

I like it

[@Beatsbasteln]

i want to play the resulting game

[@loinguyenvan347]

Hope you can make tutorial video

[@OlleWtn]

This makes me wanna build a game in it, is that possible?

[@feign.8468]

Great for nfts

[@synthoelectro]

Are they basically the same as baking normals in a 3D editor, but instead you're doing it in a 2D world?

[@akmalhakim1548]

Did the 3D base has some painting on it or purely shader?

[@imbroke6354]

The pixel arts is from 3D model in blender

[@brianwaltse281]

Not a single dislike with 15k views? This may be a first..

[@BasilHomadi]

Tutorial please

[@GiulianoVenturo]

I was the 1k like :D

[@NobodyAtAll420]

This isn't pixel art. This is either next level or witchcraft and I haven't decided Which is Witch yet... 😆 it's next level for sure!!

[@burgeryoufoundbehindthegrill]

Is it pixel or voxel?

[@t3ssel8r]

there's no voxel data. it's just rasterized polygons.

[@burgeryoufoundbehindthegrill]

@@t3ssel8r so its basically 3d, with a pixelated filter? Sorry im a noob at this

[@mementomori9391]

If you start making tutorials you will grow so much