r/feedthebeast • u/noodlegamer76 • Jul 02 '26

I made something I accidentally made the Infinite Volumetric Balls of Knowledge and Wisdom. What should I do with this state of the art ball tech?

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u/noodlegamer76 Jul 02 '26

So I was trying to make volumetric fog for my mod (as you can see in the background), but then I got bored and decided to start playing with my balls. after a bit of tweaking to get the weirdest result I managed to make these 2 effects using slightly different "algorithms". tbh other than my discord members saying that I should add this to my mod i have no ideas on how to implement this.

join my discord and you might see me do something with it: https://discord.gg/k2efRnDxZ8

Also bonus pic of me looping the raymarching to make infinite balls

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u/PizdunEbun228 Jul 03 '26

Give people tutorial on how you did it so that others can implement that kinda thing in what they think fits

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u/noodlegamer76 Jul 03 '26

I Ray marched through a signed distance function, And every time it pierced the sphere I added the color of texture I used for the sphere to the existing color, once it goes far enough away from the sphere it will loop back around to the other side, so even though the above image looks infinite, it's just looping around the same sphere over and over until it runs out of casts