Overview nyx.vfx is a real-time 2D VFX engine that creates particle systems for midi events. It's a work-in-progress, but that shouldn't take away from making cool designs and exporting them for use in post-processing and video-editing tools. Tweaker's Dream The nyx.vfx plugin…
Density Field PreShader Accumulation, Decay, and Blob Stamps Remember from Series 01 (PreShader Pipeline Architecture) that a PreShader gathers one piece of information about the texture after the Mesh stage. A PreShader is an immutable adjunct texture that Shaders can choose to utilize. The first PreShader I built for nyx.…
Overview: From Overlay Hack to Real Temporal Feedback The original "Feedback Shader" in nyx.vfx didn't actually use a shader. It used an overlay technique: draw a full-screen rectangle every frame, then blend the current input on top. It worked, but it wasn't real…
What are PreShaders? How are they useful? We'll explore this topic and how we integrated PreShaders into the existing architecture.…
Terminology In this post, a "Mesh" refers to a single renderable line segment (internally treated as an edge). Higher-level meshes are just emergent behavior from many lines. A look ahead Let's start off with where we're going first. Here's a gif demonstrating…
nyx.vfx is a multithreaded vfx engine in VST3 format. Let's take a look at it.…
createView() is where we insert our own graphics backend into the VST3 conversation. Let's take a look at how it works.…
The Controller is where we manage all things related to the user-side experience. Let's take an in-depth look at the architecture and sequence of events.…