Rémi Verschelde @akien@mastodon.gamedev.place

Pro-tip for #Mastodon (web client): you can *pin* basically anything to add new columns to your dashboard.

On mastodon.gamedev.place, I highly recommend to pin the "Local timeline", which will be the gem of this instance.

You can also pin hashtags if you want, or your favourites (yeah, it's back to proper favourites you can check back later, and not "likes" as on Birdsite).

Let's get #introductions rolling in our local timeline!

I'm a French guy living in Germany. I'm a free and open source software (#FOSS) developer on my free time, energy engineer on $dayjob.

I contribute as project manager for the libre #GodotEngine game engine, as well as various #gaming oldies (#Lugaru, #JumpnBump).

I'm also a #Linux nerd since 2005, and packager and team leader for the #Mageia distribution (and surprise! I package mostly libre games :)).

We're organizing a new #GodotCon around @fosdem
in Brussels, Belgium, on 3 & 4 February 2020!

We'll also have a booth at FOSDEM, and some of us co-host the #gamedev devroom on 1 Feb, which will have talks about all kinds of #FOSS projects and tools.

https://godotengine.org/article/meet-community-fosdem-and-godotcon-2020

Here it is, the release you've all been waiting for, #GodotEngine 4̶.̶0̶.. 3̶.̶2̶, er 3.1.2!

This is a maintenance release for the current 3.1 stable branch, bringing 400 commits worth of bug fixes, usability improvements and documentation updates!

https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-1-2

Blend file (without textures, which were taken from #BlenderGuru's own Poliigon commercial website): https://framadrop.org/r/ktdhQYoKAG#CJETpDEWbvD/DuqCW/QbnCjM+VTZma/O+Njz1lBmhZQ=

(CC-BY for the blend file)

I'm not a strong creative (yet?) so I followed the tutorial closely.

My own touch is in the chocolate material (not fully convinced but it's OK-ish?), using licorice sprinkles (what else when living in Denmark?) and a nice heart-shaped sprinkle. Ah and a golden bordered plate ;)

It took me an insane amount of fiddling to get a bump texture that I'm happy with for the licorice sprinkles, to get a textured/chalky look instead of the "plastic bits" effect they gave initially.

Current state of my Blender learning journey following #BlenderGuru's awesome Donut tutorial series (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEq0u2MzVgAaHEBt--xLB6U).

It's a lot of fun, and so satisfying to get to this kind of result. Blender and its community are awesome :)

Finally some love for the #GodotEngine 3.1 stable branch!
Godot 3.1.2 has a first Release Candidate.

Past months have mostly been about the upcoming 3.2 and 4.0 releases, but we don't forget the thousands of users who need an update for their current projects.

https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-3-1-2-rc-1

Our shader tinkerer Chaosus posted a new devlog about all the work he's been doing on shader scripts and Visual Shaders for #GodotEngine 3.2.

Many cool features that should make shader graphs a breeze for easily creating and sharing shaders.

https://godotengine.org/article/major-update-visual-shaders-godot-3-2-part-2