Impossible Piano Physics Simulation - In the Hall of the Mountain King | Black MIDI
Added 2022-04-28 14:08:58 +0000 UTCHello everybody! You all earned more points at the end of the video. Keep a look out for your name in the patron plinko :)
I built a simulation in Unity to visualize black MIDI files with physics! Every note note is a rigidbody which magnetically locks into position, presses a key, and spawns a glowing orb. This project pushed my abilities (and my PC) to the limit. The first portion was recorded with raytracing, so be sure to view in 4k resolution.
Fun facts:
- Thirty two gigs of RAM was not enough to hold the required game objects in the scene, so I upgraded to 64 just to make this video.
- Each frame was taking so long to load it was causing my GPU drivers to time out and crash. I had to edit a registry value called TdrDelay to resolve this.
- The final image sequence recording was over 100GB. Good luck youtube compression haha.
- My computer was rendering nonstop for over a week to capture the ray traced portion before the crash.
Comments
64 is overkill if you're not doing ridiculous simulations like this haha
Mark Robbins
2022-04-29 02:43:21 +0000 UTC64gb of ram makes me feel ancient. I used to make do with less than 8gb lol. Love the edits with your "computer on fire"
Ratheyu
2022-04-29 02:40:41 +0000 UTCYou should do this in winter so multitask your computer as an expensive heater. I still remember my brain going "Wait, what?" when it realised you could play middle C on the piano twice at the same time using MIDI. We're a long way past that point now!
Inconcision
2022-04-28 20:50:36 +0000 UTC
