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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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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, to blender
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I accidentally implemented blurred shadows and outlines for Text Strips in #blender 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: #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.

aras, to random
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"Rest in peace Z80, long live the open source Z80!" by ReJ and @matthewvenn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI1e22A2J3U

ReJ's project https://github.com/rejunity/z80-open-silicon

castano, to random
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This is the performance regression that I discovered a while ago:

https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Tools/issues/5658

If you are targeting Android devices, make use of fp16 math and you are using a recent build of spirv-opt (last two years), then you are most likely affected. The proposed fix should give you a noticeable performance boost.

aras,
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@castano road to hell is paved with fmas, or something

aras, to random
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So, Unity’s new CEO is from Zynga and EA (and more recently, Fitbit). Mkay, mkay.😢 https://investors.unity.com/news/news-details/2024/Unity-Appoints-Matthew-Bromberg-as-New-CEO/default.aspx

aras,
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@pervognsen well the previous one (Jim) was an interim CEO, so it was fully expected that he'd only be for like half a year or whatever.

aras,
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@MissAemilia bean counters in charge of a technology company is always a good sign, no? :sob:

aras,
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@TheIneQuation it does not say whether it is scaling up or scaling down! :P

benthroop, to random
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I've posted in the Unity forum asking about staying on BIRP vs moving to HDRP/URP in a project with a shipping window a few years out. Would appreciate any additional opinions. So far nobody is sticking up for the SRPs.

https://forum.unity.com/threads/ok-its-2024-is-it-time-to-move-from-birp-to-hdrp-or-urp.1588410/#post-9807774

aras,
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@benthroop hard to say what is in Unity’s future plans (possible: they don’t know themselves, or they can’t say). My own guess is that URP is probably “better” soon - SRPs got things like GPU resident drawer and GPU occlusion culling, STP upscaler recently, etc. It also feels like many people who were on HDRP team are leaving Unity nowadays :/

benthroop, to random
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In what has to be one of the most egregious misuses of system resources the Logi+ software on my Macbook was just using 1.5GB of RAM. How is this even possible?

To be clear, this is the Logitech mouse/device management software.

aras,
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@jon_valdes @bgolus @benthroop “a mouse driver embeds AI” was not on my bingo cards. Maybe it should have, but still omg this is so stupid.

aras, to random
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P!nk 🍎

anteru, to random
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After just over 9 fantastic years at AMD, I'm starting today at Intel. (And before you ask, yes, I worked at NVIDIA already.) High time to close the RGB loop :)

aras,
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@anteru now that makes me wonder whether Apple, Qualcomm and Arm would be from the CMY space.

Anyway, congrats!

forrestthewoods, to random
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Proving that Immediate Mode GUIs aren’t significant battery hogs. Computers are really fast!

MacBook M1 Idle: 3.5 watts

Dear ImGui: 7.5
ImPlot: 8.9
EGUI: 8.2
Rerun: 11.1

Spotify: 5.8
VSCode: 7.0
YouTube: 11.5
Facebook: 8.7

Compiling: 50.0

Full blog post: https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/proving-immediate-mode-guis-are-performant/

aras,
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@forrestthewoods nice! You could also use Unity (prob some version older than 2021 - less UIToolkit there) as a “large/complex” IMGUI app case.

c0de517e, to random
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Registration for REAC 2024 is now open! Check our page to see the amazing speaker lineup we have this year! https://enginearchitecture.org/2024.htm - and please share!

aras,
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@c0de517e nice!

neilhenning, to random
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Solar panels! Much excited for them to be wired up tomorrow.

aras,
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@neilhenning @xoofx ah, maybe it did not specify at what altitude the sky is clear and blue

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