Night Ride

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About

A Night Ride is a realtime computer animation (a demo). A capture of the demo is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OomA9W_N3Ik

For more information about Night Ride, see:

• https://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr/productions/night-ride/
• https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=98212

Build & Tools

To build the demo, we use Microsoft Visual Studio Community 2022.

Tips:

• For interactive development, build using the Editor configuration:

  • Shaders are recompiled automatically when Ctrl-S is pressed.
  • The Editor mode expects a file moto.wav that can be generated using the wav_export project. Alternatively, comment out the SOUND_ON macro during development (PRs to improve this would be welcome).

• Build using the Snapshot configuration to get a binary quickly. Switch to Release if you want a smaller binary (but it may take more than a minute to build). Use Heavy Release if you want to waste more CPU cycles.

• For performance, you may want to reduce the resolution in the file shared.h as the demo is very GPU-intensive.

• The demo uses a perprocessor to merge all shader input files. The output is stored in preprocessed.scene.frag.

• The minified shader is visible in shaders.inl. To analyze the minified code, you may want to check shaders.min.frag instead (it's minified, but indented and without renaming).

Original README

                      Ctrl-Alt-Test & Alcatraz
                               present
      
                             Night Ride
      
                           An 8kB PC intro
                      Released at Deadline 2024

Made by:
    - Jochen Feldkötter, aka Virgill
    - Julien Guertault, aka Zavie
    - Laurent Le Brun, aka LLB
    - Jan Scheurer, aka LJ

Using:
    - Crinkler         https://github.com/runestubbe/Crinkler
    - Leviathan        https://github.com/armak/Leviathan-2.0
    - Shader Minifier  https://github.com/laurentlb/shader-minifier
    - Sointu           https://github.com/vsariola/sointu

This audio-visual presentation is meant to be run  on a PC powered
by Microsoft Windows Vista or newer, with an NVIDIA GPU equivalent
to RTX3080 or higher.

In the balance between binary size and performance, the latter was
essentially sacrificed, hence the hardware requirements.  We might
release a later version with a different tradeoff so the intro can
be enjoyed smoothly on mid-range hardware.

Inspiration was directly drawn from:
    - Drive   (2011, director of photography: Newton Thomas Sigel)
    - Heat          (1995, director of photography: Dante Spinott)
    - Tron Legacy (2010, director of photography: Claudio Miranda)
    - Nightcrawler  (2014, director of photography: Robert Elswit)
    - Eternal Apex               (https://acatalept.com, Acatalep)

Special thanks to:
    - rubix, for the series of improvements to Shader Minifier.
    - Iñigo Quilez, for the invaluable trove of ressources.
    - Fabrice Neyret, for the code reviews over the years.
    - Gopher, for always being cheerful.

We send our  greetings to  Approximate,  Cocoon, Gaspode, loopit,
Mercury, 0b5vr, Poobrain, Razor 1911, Setsuko, Still,
The Black Lotus, Titan, TokyoDemoFest, Turbo Knight and TRBL.

EOF