Aras Pranckevičius @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

I'm super late to the party, but... Baba is You is a masterpiece. http://www.hempuli.com/baba/

Knights And Bikes looks absolutely rad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xpFUgCp900

I'll write about it more once Clang 9 is fully out (soon-ish), but here's a little tool I scribbled together: Clang Build Analyzer. https://github.com/aras-p/ClangBuildAnalyzer

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/