Devlog 6: Compute Shaders!

So I know the next thing, and only thing left, on my To-Do list, as seen in my last Devlog, was to add an GUI/interface, but I wanted to improve on how many particles you can simulate at once, so I researched how shaders and compute shader work, and made one that could do everything my C# script could do too, but faster, as compute shaders run on the GPU, which is really good at doing things in parallel.
But it wasn’t easy, as I had no idea how both shaders and compute shaders work, and I still don’t really know how shaders work, but atleast I know how compute shaders work now.
But getting to this point, where it finally works, took me the entire day, with having to do research and having to keep trying new stuff to find something that works, but I think it was worth it.
But I was kind of too lazzy to implement a BitonicMergeSort to sort using the GPU, so I took that code from https://github.com/SebLague/Fluid-Sim, and slightly altered it, so it would work for me.

So now, I’ll just have to add an GUI or something like that, adjust some stuff, (like changing it so the particles don’t spawn in a symmetric grid, or particles don’t spawning inside other particles anymore), and clean everything up, and then I’d probably be ready ship it for the first time, depending on whether I wanna add more stuff first or not.