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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
Mark Robbins
64 is overkill if you're not doing ridiculous simulations like this haha
Ratheyu
64gb of ram makes me feel ancient. I used to make do with less than 8gb lol. Love the edits with your "computer on fire"
Inconcision
You 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!
