What Is Shell Texturing?

Shell texturing is an incredibly powerful yet simple graphics technique for rendering fur and other complex volumes!
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This video is dedicated to my friend, Alotryx.

[@email7919]

Watching this without sound is unreal

[@JokerLover123]

Yoo I was thinking that exact same thing.

[@Matojeje]

Additionally

[@ZanyCat]

Unreal? 🤓 Well actually it's made in Unity!

[@canofsoda]

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[@gigabit6226]

@@ZanyCat hahaha

[@Zheph]

Shorts like this are actually really good. Quick rundowns on techniques to say "this exists" that helps me know what I don't know.

[@HogarTheBig]

Except there’s not a single sentence on how it actually works (even high level)

[@Zheph]

@@HogarTheBig That doesn't matter. It gives me something to look into that I didn't know existed before. I'll learn how something works from documentation rather than a CZcams short.

[@xGOKOPx]

@@HogarTheBig You can click the play button shaped thing on the bottom and go to the full video that this is cut from

[@fgrey-]

you have singlehandedly gotten me into graphics programming

[@RTort]

boykisser

[@yuhg9139]

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[@stars19735]

@@RTortis that an invitation 😏💋💋💋

[@ryu_lidu]

Was surprisingly easy to implement, really cool stuff

[@savagesarethebest7251]

I am quite proud of that I came up with this technique myself in my early teens. And that's 20 years ago when information was far from the way it is today

[@LPSORBIT]

why you gotta give me ptsd with the thumbnail

[@doomoftheend]

Where is it from?

[@GrandHighGamer]

You shouldn't be getting ptsd off of a thumbnail, but I guess... you're not perfect.

[@k_otey]

@@GrandHighGamer who

[@nevadamarschke8052]

Imagine seeing this on a kids show

[@enderfire3379]

same thing. that guy is horrifying

[@yhiz4757]

Bro I've literally been losing my mind over this after seeing it in genshin IT LOOKS SO GOOD

[@benflightart]

The modern equivalent of shell texturing would be parallax occlusion mapping which is still used in lieu of displacement today.

[@sly_cat]

I feel like the artifacts could be used to get that 2000’s era vibe.

[@useruser510uu]

I agree.

[@jacobbaer785]

Is that background music from pokemon diamond and pearl?

[@wandilekhumalo7062]

Lol Courage nostalgia😂

[@Internetzspacezshipz]

Is this the same thing as parallax occlusion mapping (POM)?

[@Internetzspacezshipz]

Ah nvm, it’s not. Just the screenshots shown and the side effects of high angles made me think of POM.

[@mitzzzu_tigerjones444]

When over 1000 people are willing to give you a thumbs up but only 20 or so are willing to comment ❤
Thanks, I learned something new about SOC

[@vibaj16]

now 4000 likes and 30 comments

[@rosarialeah]

I use this on roblox for hair in my games because I can't poly model hair to save my life.

[@walkman0553]

Okay wasn’t the dark souls one a bad example because it was a messed up implementation? I think there’s a fix out that corrects how the rendering should be on the fur

[@Btomaek]

I did this for fog

[@vibaj16]

bruh

[@Joshinken]

Ok and what is it? Like… what is a shell texture? I feel like we glossed over that part

[@Acerola_t]

you would love the full video explaining shell texturing that this short is a supplement to

[@Joshinken]

@@Acerola_t i mean, fair, but like, couldnt you squeeze in 4 seconds of “shell texturing is several layers of textures that form shells around an object” so i don’t have to google it after watching the video? Cause this didn’t make me go “wow i should find out more from this guy, his explanation was really good” and instead made me think “wow, i still have no clue what this is, better ask someone else”, you feel me?

[@Acerola_t]

@@Joshinken mmm no seems like everyone else got it just fine i think it's a you problem sorry

[@randomaster138]

But acerola

[@Semudara]

"*Archaic* graphics technique"
"Also here's a bunch of recent high-profile games that use it..." lmao.

[@Acerola_t]

yes, archaic means old, the technique is old, just because new things use it doesn't make it not old

[@antongroewentrup]

Could you make a video about aliasing and anti-aliasing cause if I turn it on and of in the options. I often don't see the difference.

[@vibaj16]

Look at the edges of things, that's where it'll have the biggest impact. The simple, low performance, high quality method is supersampling, which basically renders at a higher resolution than the display and downscales to the display size. More performant yet lower quality techniques use post-processing methods like edge-smoothing or even using AI.

[@daffypiliero8310]

"Promo SM" 🤔