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szproon Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

Hey, so if you go to for example https://shaderacademy.com/challenge/raymarching_3 and open Learning section and scroll through there. We literally link these great resources you mentioned. Also, we literally have discord with resources where we link a lot of them https://discord.com/channels/1358424822551674880/13584277359...

Do you think we should put these inspirations more on homepage?

szproon Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

Thanks a lot, I think this is valid feedback and we will do that. About 1) we made assumption that for ranked challenges it would be obvious why it is vague, but we can fix it.

Thank you!

szproon Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

thank you for your comment! I hope you enjoy our platform!

szproon Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

thank you!

szproon Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

Hey, so I responded about it in other thread, but let me respond here.

Most challenges were created by us, but we use LLM for example to generate comments in the code or generate some simple boiler plate.

Sometimes, it is also useful to create similar challenge to already existing one.

szproon Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

Hey, thanks for sharing this feedback. I am one of the creators of shader academy and I created this challenge. This is ranked challenge, so we do not provide answer and the score of it is used in our ranking https://shaderacademy.com/ranking For now we do not have other ranked challenges, but we will add more in future.

How would you improve description of this challenge? As you can notice, we provide a lot of hints, description etc. for other challenges, but this one is vague on purpose.

Thank you

szproon Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

That's a good point, but I think very often people still have hard time creating effects they want. For example good few years ago I published few shaders on Unity Asset Store (like https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/fragmentat...) and there were quite a lot of purchases (and still are sometimes).

My point is, you can create more complex effects and provide them as a tool/out of the box effect (wrapper)

szproon Shader Academy: Learn computer graphics by solving challenges

I am also other author of shader academy. To clarify comments about ai, we use it sometimes to add comments in a code (people needed it to solve problems) or sometimes to generate some boilerplate code.