Chroma Lab

 

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 Key features

  • Beautiful, psychedelic visuals
  • Particles react to background music (any external music player is compatible, may not work with Bluetooth headphones)
  • Tools to pick up, hit, pull, explode, shoot and paint the particles
  • Placeable force spheres which can also teleport the particles between one another
  • Save and load scenes and settings, also there are a few presets
  • Adjustable physics settings to change how the particles behave
  • Multiple different particle shaders, color pallets and other graphics settings to choose from
  • Throw blobs into orbit and create black holes
  • Optional gravity and “lava lamp” mode
  • Freeze the simulation and step through it or slow time to a crawl
  • Great as a first VR experience
  • MixCast support for easy mixed reality
  • Native Oculus Rift support
  • Number of particles can be automatically determined or manually chosen
  • Scale and bounding walls can be adjusted allowing Chroma Lab to be played from sitting to room scale

Technical details

Chroma Lab is based around an optimised, built-from-scratch, particle physics engine that uses compute shaders for maximum performance.

Internally there are approximately 2 billion force calculations per second (depends on GPU) that are used to maintain the particles distance from one another and allow them to stick together and behave like a fluid.

Outside of VR my particle engine is capable of simulating 1.5 million particles at 60fps (5 billion force calculations per second) on a R9 290

Chroma Lab also makes extensive use of custom shaders for visuals.

It is capable of running on any VR-ready PC

Chroma Lab Steam store page

I would like to thank all of my beta testers.  Without their help and feedback, Chroma Lab would be a small fraction of what it is now.
I would also like to specifically thank Colin and Sarah Northway from Northway Games for all the help they have provided.