Researcher, teacher and activist somewhere at the intersection of landscape perception, graphics programming, open source, and climate change. Working on VR landscape visualization with Godot. Maintaining Geodot: https://github.com/boku-ilen/geodot-pluginhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.athttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3mjc35eojas2rDid you know you can set up a scene and render it to a texture without any nodes in #Godot, by directly using the RenderingServer? We automatically generate billboard sprites for meshes this way. There's not much info about the RenderingServer online, so I wrote about it: https://hexaquo.at/pages/using-godots-renderingserver-for-dynamically-rendering-billboards-thumbnails-and-more/12 Apr 2026 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjc35eojas2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3mhso6ajg2c2wImplemented a variable-density Poisson disk sampler as a C++ GDExtension for #Godot: https://github.com/boku-ilen/godot-variable-density-poisson-disk-sampler It generates random points with a variable density, based on e.g. an image. should be very useful for scattering vegetation. based on this article: https://www.vertexfragment.com/ramblings/variable-density-poisson-sampler/24 Mar 2026 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhso6ajg2c2whttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3mf7lgkqhgs2cOrchard #godot #gamedev19 Feb 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf7lgkqhgs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3mccufgynos2b#godot #gamedev13 Jan 2026 15:24 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mccufgynos2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3mbvy7mkwts2e#godot #gamedev08 Jan 2026 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbvy7mkwts2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3mb52fdpz3s2dLens Flare update: exposed all configurable parameters now. There's probably still a lot of potential for performance optimization, but I'd say it's somewhat usable :) You can check it out here, should work in any project (though requires some HDR care): https://github.com/kb173/godot-procedural-lens-flare #Godot #gamedev29 Dec 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mb52fdpz3s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3mantpjtykc2bIf you want your #Godot game to look like Battlefield 3, I got you23 Dec 2025 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mantpjtykc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3mac64wthzc2yMore work on procedural lens flares in #Godot. If you want to have a look at the (still very messy!) code: https://github.com/kb173/godot-procedural-lens-flare Outline of how it works: 1. Clip bright spots from the rendered image 2. Warp these spots to create ghosts and a halo 3. Blur 4. Overlay based on a dirt texture18 Dec 2025 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3mac64wthzc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3ma4pfu6sec2nFinally learning CompositorEffects #Godot Lens flare based on this blog: https://john-chapman-graphics.blogspot.com/2013/02/pseudo-lens-flare.html16 Dec 2025 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma4pfu6sec2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3m6kb33qw422xI often talk about bent normals for billboards, and I keep having to mention the "if (!FRONT_FACING) NORMAL = -NORMAL" workaround for correct backface lighting. I realized I could fix that myself, so I opened a PR for an intuitive material option and render_mode: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/113192 #Godot26 Nov 2025 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6kb33qw422xhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3m5jc7rfuj22nOn my way home from #GodotFest. Thanks so much to everyone for this incredible event! Hope to see you all again soon :) My presentation on foliage rendering in #Godot is already up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2nBOOR_PP4 And I also shared my slides here: https://slides.com/hexaquo/plants-polygons-and-pixels-large-scale-vegetation-rendering-in-godot13 Nov 2025 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5jc7rfuj22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3m5bxiytyf22xon my way to #GodotFest! hope to meet some of you there :)10 Nov 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5bxiytyf22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/hexaquo.at/post/3m3pmbvbzfk2z🔜 #GodotFest Want to see these slides (and many more) live? Then join my presentation on November 11th at GodotFest in Munich :) #godot #gamedev21 Oct 2025 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:2wbm5ajlbfm6mthogcnwrskh/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3pmbvbzfk2z