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aras

@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

Programmer. Unity 2006-2021. Website at https://aras-p.info Admin of https://mastodon.gamedev.place

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neilhenning, to random
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Benji being unable to do big runs with me anymore due to age / epilepsy / heart murmur is the biggest sign of mortality I’ve had in my life thus far.

And he doesn’t understand as I run off that he’s not fit for it anymore and gets so upset that I’m leaving him behind. Heartbreaking!

At least he forgives me once I am home.

aras,
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@neilhenning 😢

aras, to demoscene
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"Everybody Wants to Crank the World", a :demoscene: demo for :playdate:
@playdate. Took 4th place at @outline!

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjAKiwQxrQI
Playdate binary: https://aras-p.info/files/demos/2024/Nesnausk_CrankTheWorld-20240421.zip
Source code: https://github.com/aras-p/demo-pd-cranktheworld

Maybe I should write a short blog post about development for playdate, or somesuch. It is quite fun!

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aras,
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@tojiro yes. Turns out, screen space blue noise texture works way better than I thought it would.

neilhenning, to Eurovision
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Ok Switzerland was amazing

aras,
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@neilhenning is this the first time a cracktro wins the contest? :P :demoscene:

mtothevizzah, to random
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Thank you to the @i3d committee and @BartWronski for a wonderful I3D 2024, was great to attend and help in a small way. And Patrick Cozzi and Cesium for being such good hosts, including letting me take two hours of calls in their offices after the conference finished :).

aras,
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@BartWronski @mtothevizzah @i3d aww y’all now make me want to go to i3d!

aras,
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@BartWronski @mtothevizzah @i3d oh, I definitely know! Was at i3d maybe in 2016, and loved it.

WFBGWG, to random
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@aras

Hello

thanks for your work on gamedev.place !
:)

I think there is an automatic translation possible on last mastodon version...

is is soooooo useful ! :)

to understand messages in German, Italian.... and so on

:))

aras,
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@WFBGWG there is an option, but it requires hooking it up to some translation server, which either costs time or money, and I haven’t done that. https://masto.host/help/mastodon-content-translation/

aras, to random
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"ZH3: Quadratic Zonal Harmonics" by @torust et al is pretty cool! Looks like much better quality than linear spherical harmonics, at same storage cost. https://torust.me/ZH3.pdf

yiningkarlli, to random
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Vue and PlantFactory are being discontinued, but as part of being discontinued, you can now download and use them for free.

This is the end of an era; Vue has been a mainstay in building 3D terrain and environments as long as I can remember.

https://www.bentley.com/software/e-on-software-free-downloads/

aras,
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@yiningkarlli I must say this is a nice way of sunsetting a product! Way better than just disappearing it.

aras,
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@yiningkarlli open sourcing something from a large company (like Bentley is) that was not made ready to be open sourced, is a massive amount of work. Audit source, legal, possibly technical work too etc.

outline, to random
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Join us on an adventure!
We'll be pushing the rural internet to its limits by streaming all the compo's.
Fri: 19:00 Music + Photo -- 21:00 Graphics + Executable Graphics
Sat: 18:00 Wild + Animation -- 21:00 Executable compos (256b) -- 21:30 Executable compos (128b) -- 22:00 Executable compos (Demos)

https://www.twitch.tv/outlinedemoparty

aras,
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@outline wheee!

yiningkarlli, to random
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Normally Apple is really good at ads, but this ad for the iPad Pro is a huge failure. I sincerely hope it was CG and that they didn’t actually destroy all of those instruments of human creativity. This ad should have been all of that amazing stuff exploding out of the iPad, not getting crushed out of existence.

This ad doesn't evoke "the iPad is an amazing creative tool", it evokes the wholesale destruction of art and culture that happened under the Cultural Revolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntjkwIXWtrc

aras,
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@yiningkarlli next up: someone will proudly claim “no vfx!” 🤦

dotstdy, to random
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wrong type of performance strikes again! at least it's not as bad as networking https://larian.com/careers/a4899495-d090-4c75-99b6-e5daf950a2e1

aras,
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@dotstdy I can think of worse cases, eg “lead performance director” that is part of HR that does yearly performance evaluations.

aras,
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@dotstdy that reminds me, some years ago Unity launched a “Unity Game Performance” product. Which, turns out, was crash analytics or somesuch. Of course everyone on “the engine” side found about it only after the launch. Tried to persuade folks that this is a bad name, to no avail.

aras,
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@jvalenzu @dotstdy petition to rename internal mobility site to Unity Job System

aras, to blender
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I accidentally implemented blurred shadows and outlines for Text Strips in sequencer. In for Blender 4.2! https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/121478

BartWronski, to random
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ACM I3D'24 committee ready for the conference! Hope to see some of you tomorrow! :)

aras,
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@BartWronski have a good one!

aras, to Playdate
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Alright, demo submission done. Now we wait! :playdate: :demoscene:

aras,
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@iralmeida Outline since that was the closest that accepts remote entries for arbitrary platforms. https://outlinedemoparty.nl/

aras,
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@Biovf shh don’t get your hopes up, it’s just a handful of simple fx thrown together. Do you have the device tho? Could send you a build “for testing” ;)

longbool, to random
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Sick to my stomach.

aras,
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@longbool :(((

mattpharr, to random
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My new favorite dishtowel. (Only noticed after the purchase.)

aras,
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@mattpharr obligatory “international magazine of rendering” mention!

aras,
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@levork @yiningkarlli @mattpharr “rendering is a financially stable industry” 😭

BartWronski, to random
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If you use Mastodon on desktop (as opposed to mobile), I cannot praise highly enough Phanpy https://phanpy.social/
It really cleans up my timeline, handles replies very nicely, and allows for a great "refresh" (view updates) experience.

aras,
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@BartWronski oh wow! some really nice user interface ideas there.

yiningkarlli, to random
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Okay, this meme has been floating around and I really dislike it. I'm not a big fan of gatekeeping programming based on what editor/tools someone uses. I care about what code actually does and couldn't care less about what tool was used to write it. Use whatever works for you.

Some of the best programmers I've met use rando editors like Sam/Acme and Slickedit. Some of the other best programmers I've met use Visual Studio or Xcode. The editor has little to do with why they're great programmers.

aras,
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@yiningkarlli this. eg I could never understood vim, but I’ve seen some very productive people use it. Good for them! I’ve also seen some folks who spent all their time explaining how vim allows them to be very good/fast, except they were not good and/or never got anything done.

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