VRC Light Volumes is a next-gen voxel based baked volumetric lighting solution for VRChat, I'm working on right now! It affects avatars, dynamic props, etc. Works really fast without major overhead even on Quest. It will be fully open-source and free, so stay tuned! #vrchat #gamedev #shader - ThreadSky

sim.red • 76 days ago

VRC Light Volumes is a next-gen voxel based baked volumetric lighting solution for VRChat, I'm working on right now! It affects avatars, dynamic props, etc. Works really fast without major overhead even on Quest. It will be fully open-source and free, so stay tuned! #vrchat #gamedev #shader

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psicough.lspot.club•76 days ago

Gonna be keeping a close eye on this, it looks really good!

darkswordsman.com•76 days ago

Thank you for posting here 💜

sim.red•76 days ago

Compared to light probes, it affects objects partially. Additionally, it supports features like dynamic day/night cycles, movable lights, togglable and dimmable lights, and more. It’s also compatible with dynamic batching, which can make it even faster than light probes in some cases.

sim.red•76 days ago

And you can already test it here in my demo world with free avatars I provided there. Note that avatar shaders there are not finished and looks more PBR-like. https://vrchat.com/home/launch?worldId=wrld_af756ca8-30ee-41a4-b304-2207ebf79db9

moradorulorukalai.bsky.social•75 days ago

it's work with Mochie?
it's remind me svogi

ericbazinga.bsky.social•76 days ago

So does that mean this only works with compatible avatars, like the shader also needs to support it? Or are the avatars just set up for best results?

sim.red•76 days ago

Yes, it only works with a shader that supports it. But I hope, popular shader creators will integrate it into their shaders.

ericbazinga.bsky.social•76 days ago

I know that Poiyomi supports third party modules but I'd be surprised if they weren't interested in supporting this.

How does it look on avatars that don't support it? Similar/identical to Unity light probes?

sim.red•76 days ago

It just uses light probes. And my shader feature also fallbacks to light probes in worlds without Light Volumes.

llamahat.bsky.social•75 days ago

You mention that it can work with moving and dimmable lights, any chance that this can work on worlds too, give us another GI solution to choose from? Or is the accuracy not there at the moment to support that kinda lighting?

sim.red•75 days ago

It's possible to make it work on worlds as an additive light, but I'm not sure if it will look good enough.

patroll.me•76 days ago

Got any video examples with movable lights?

sim.red•76 days ago

It's not yet implemented, so not yet.

gg4rr3tt.bsky.social•35 days ago

is the test miku avatar using liltoon? i was testing out what my avatar looked like in the test world but the miku avatar seems to be affected by lighting more than my avatar, which is using poiyomi and the default realistic shading setting. great work though!

sim.red•35 days ago

Miku uses the light volumes sample pbr shader I provided with the package.

itsmeashy.bsky.social•76 days ago

I'm so glad I got to see this "in person" last night. I can't wait to try set it up in my worlds when it's ready!

sim.red•76 days ago

Thank you! I was glad to show it to you an others!

feilen.purr.church•75 days ago

Excellent work! We were actually looking at implementing Bakery Volumes in Standard Lite back when all the changes were going in last year, but low adoption kinda kept it in the back burner. Might eye this for some upstream integration in the future 👀

sim.red•74 days ago

Yeah, lesgooo! I will be happy to see it as a default lighting solution VRChat. Just ping me if you'll need any help with it, I'm always glad to assist.