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A demo of a lone palmtree on an island, with a fps counter on the top left. The camera moves around freely, but can be interacted by zooming in or out. It has a day/night cycle of 5 minutes... with the shadow following along the sun/moon. It also has a soothing sea sound, plus the eventual seagull. If you want to make your ARM device "explode", this is it. Focuses on GPU usage.

Download it by clicking here.

Download dependencies (Debian): sudo apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev libvulkan-dev glslc

Requirements:

Vulkan 1.2

SDL 2

A GPU with compute shaders support

Keys:

Reduce render resolution with -, and + to increase it.

Zoom in with mouse scroll wheel up. And out with mouse scroll wheel down.

How to compile:

Download the tar file provided in the link above.

Decompress it

Download the required dependencies

Enter the decompressed directory

make -j$(nproc)

Then run it by typing ./lonepalmtree

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