AminiAllight

AminiAllight, 1 day ago to windows

If anyone's switching over to Linux and needs help let me know, I know Several Things™ about it
(Mostly Arch and derivatives but a little bit of other distros too)
#windows #recall #linux

AminiAllight, 2 days ago to gamedev

Is there interest in a game audio programming tutorial?
Writing my sound system took ages and a lot of the things I ended up doing (dynamic occlusion, head-related transfer function, effects with custom frequency responses) aren't well documented for game devs anywhere
#gamedev #indiedev

AminiAllight, 11 days ago to vr

My finished custom VR headset board!
#vr #virtualreality #opensource #openhardware

AminiAllight, 1 month ago to hardware

Long-shot to end all long-shots but: does anybody know anything about USB on raw Xilinx transceivers (e.g. without a PHY)? Officially it's unsupported, occasionally people say they've gotten it to work and more details on exactly how would be incredibly useful

Boosts appreciated for visibility
#openhardware #hardware #xilinx

AminiAllight, 1 month ago to vr

Added the second addendum to my OpenXR tutorial, covering how to improve your OpenXR application by using a single swapchain + multiview rendering for simpler code and better performance!
https://amini-allight.org/post/openxr-tutorial-addendum-2-single-swapchain
#vr #virtualreality #gamedev

AminiAllight, 2 months ago to vr

I've written a new addon to my original OpenXR tutorial, the first of two, discussing the two main approaches to multisampling with OpenXR!
https://amini-allight.org/post/openxr-tutorial-addendum-1-multisampling
#vr #virtualreality

AminiAllight, 2 months ago to cpp

I've released a clang tidy for C/C++ that finds division by non-constant values to help you search for possible division-by-zero in your codebase!
This is mostly a tool I built for myself to help with LMOD development but others might find it useful too
https://github.com/amini-allight/clang-tidy-division-by-non-constant
#softwaredevelopment #cpp #cplusplus #opensource

AminiAllight, 2 months ago to vr

Initial headstrap design for my custom headset has been finalized, time to print 😄
#vr #virtualreality #opensource #openhardware

A render of a 3D model of a white plastic headstrap.

aeva, 2 months ago to random

[Do I know anyone / is there anyone in earshot] who has a Tilt Five set? I'm thinking of getting one, and I am interested in hearing opinions from people who've used one for an extended period of time and/or wrote software for one.

AminiAllight, 3 months ago to cpp

Does anyone know anything about compiling with debug symbols enabled under MSYS2 (without works fine)? I'm getting this weird link error "relocation truncated to fit: IMAGE_REL_AMD64_REL32 against .rdata", on both GCC and Clang, seems to be tied to std::function somehow

Boosts for visibility appreciated!
#cpp #programming #softwaredevelopment #cplusplus

AminiAllight, 3 months ago to linux

New article, this time talking about how to fix another difficult-to-parse Arch Linux error:
https://amini-allight.org/post/fixing-pacman-error-while-loading-shared-libraries
#linux #sysadmin

AminiAllight, 3 months ago to vr

This feature is weird, it feels like it was intended to prevent the "ew, thing on face = dystopian" comments but it failed (and so proved there is nothing you can do to stop people saying that)
Now it's vestigial and benefits everyone but the person paying the cost/weight penalty
#vr #virtualreality #apple #visionpro #applevisionpro

AminiAllight, 3 months ago to vr

Surely there's some mistake here? The Apple Vision Pro has a 3166 mAh battery?? That's smaller than the $20 replacement battery I just stuffed in my ereader lmao
#vr #virtualreality #apple

castano, 3 months ago to random

What's the best way to compress normal maps for storage & delivery?

Artists tend to use PNG due to the quality losses and artifacts introduced by JPEG or other DCT based codecs.

I don't think there's anything inherently wrong about DCT codecs in this setting, it's just that they are not tuned for this content and don't use the right metrics.

Has anyone done work on this area? Are there any examples or references I should be looking at for inspiration?

AminiAllight, 4 months ago to gamedev

Well this sucks lol, apparently emulated ARM doesn't unpack files very fast
#gamedev #indiedev

AminiAllight, 4 months ago to indiegames

I really want a "cozy" game (or maybe VR experience or world) where you explore/manage a massive underground facility like the Aperture one
Cozy cottages and apartments are nice and all but sometimes I want cozy buried-a-mile-down-in-a-nest of-empty-walkways-and-corridors core
#gamedesign #indiegames #indiedev

AminiAllight, 4 months ago to vr

Headset design is coming along, I got the headband finished!

#VR #virtualreality #openhardware #opensource #hardware #indiedev

3D model VR headset design
3D model VR headset design

AminiAllight, 4 months ago to ukteachers

New version of Optench, my virtual optical bench, is now available (1.2.4)
Just a small bug fix release, operator precedence in aspheric lens expressions was backwards 😅
#optics #education #physics #opensource

maxim, 5 months ago to mastodon

Hello #mastodon game developers

What is the genre of your game that you are working on or plan to work on?

What do you think makes it unique and why should other people play it?

#gamedev #indiedev #IndieGameDev

renwillis, 6 months ago to vr

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