Aras Pranckevičius @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

Nice to see git addressing some of command line complexities. "checkout" command is way complexicated, the new "switch" and "restore" make sense. https://github.blog/2019-08-16-highlights-from-git-2-23/

"fun" C++ quiz time. what will this program print? (and why?)

I never thought I'd see "There is a lot of goodwill towards this system" used to describe JIRA, but here we are.

AMD RDNA (Navi) GPU architecture overview slides: https://gpuopen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/RDNA_Architecture_public.pdf

"CreativeAI: Deep Learning for Computer Graphics" #SIGGRAPH2019 course material is online: http://geometry.cs.ucl.ac.uk/creativeai/

Oh, and #unity3d 2019.2 is out too. https://unity.com/releases/2019-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoERAtLGq-8

Blender 2.80 is out, and is a very impressive update. https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/

It is extremely cool that even on the other side of the world of #SIGGRAPH2019, one can read "Path Tracing in Production" and "Path Guiding in Production" course notes just like that. ~200 pages of excellent material. https://jo.dreggn.org/path-tracing-in-production/2019/index.html

"Are we done with Ray Tracing?" #SIGGRAPH2019 course slides are up: https://sites.google.com/view/arewedonewithraytracing -- turns out, you can't "just rtx on", who would have guessed :)

Visual Studio 2019 16.2 is out: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2019-version-16-2-generally-available-and-16-3-preview-1/ -- link time improvements yay! Also fixes SIMD codegen bug that was there in 16.0 and 16.1 (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/540079/vs2019-mis-optimizes-some-simd-constructs.html)

"Fresnel Equations Considered Harmful" by Naty Hoffman http://renderwonk.com/publications/mam2019/

QuickJS javascript engine by Fabrice Bellard: https://bellard.org/quickjs/

I made a blog! "Replacing a live system is really hard" https://aras-p.info/blog/2019/06/21/Replacing-a-live-system-is-really-hard/

"Performance speed limits" by is really really good. https://travisdowns.github.io/blog/2019/06/11/speed-limits.html

Ok, so HBO Chernobyl is the greatest miniseries of all time.

Fun fact: some of the KGB prison scenes were shot in the same building as what Unity Kaunas (first non-Copenhagen R&D office!) was back in 2008. It was not fancy at all, back then we had no $ okay? :)

"Leveraging Ray Tracing Hardware Acceleration In Unity" is nice. https://auzaiffe.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/digital-dragons-leveraging-ray-tracing-hardware-acceleration-in-unity.pdf #digitaldragons2019

So! After some years of being fairly "unofficial", Unity editor for Linux is more official now. You can just get it via Unity Hub, like regular Windows/Mac editors. https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/05/30/announcing-the-unity-editor-for-linux/

"The Making of The Heretic: Digital Humans and VFX Characters" is really good: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aiBXsNu-D9ZfpBNqcs08w7ToNJ2e7jgyoyfNUXSCWW8/edit?usp=sharing #digitaldragons2019 #madewithunity