Drew Risch - Rogue13

A few years ago I was coding a simple 2D physics & rendering engine. It died out because I'm simply not that strong in math. The pixel processor in IlluGen is almost done, which is insanely powerful. You can build your graph and then write additional code to generate or iterate on whatever you're feeding it. I figured I'd have claude take a stab at a 2D raymarching node, like what i was trying to build a few years ago, and after a few iterations its pretty awesome. In IlluGen you can use our UI to access parameters within your processor code and even animate them with things like modulators or key frames. I'm not really sure what pandoras box this will open or if LLM's are the best way to write these shaders/custom nodes vs learning to code. I'm trying my best to navigate "This is art" and this is LLM trash. Being pretty inept at coding, who knows how long it would've taken me to build this exact thing I was looking for. I have had some fun tonight hand coding a few shaders and it's an absolute blast to be able to interact with shaders at a new level. I've never experienced something so easy, eloquent, and simple for making and working with shaders despite my severe programming knowledge limitations. Raymarching, relighting, simulations, conways game of life, post processing shaders for games, and many more things will soon be possible with this new node. It's basically the desktop version of shadertoy i've always wanted. Procedural graph/inputs (nebula generation in this case) -> Code to do something with those inputs -> More graph