Aras Pranckevičius @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

I had a dream where I was trying to come up with a new Mesh scripting API for Unity, and the major problem I was trying to solve, was that it's hard to make meshes out of non-English words; our API is too much English oriented.

I know what I'll be working on next!

All done! Hope stuff still works; if anything broke let me know.

Instance will start migrating to new servers soon, and will be down for an hour or so! This is all.

Profile Analyzer for Unity. https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/05/13/introducing-the-profile-analyzer

So! This instance might be moving to new servers soon(ish), since apparently it's running out of 100GB space for all the media or somesuch. If things go down for a bit, don't worry!

I made a toy path tracer for triangle meshes. Used it as an interview task ("make the initial version faster!") https://github.com/aras-p/ToyMeshPathTracer

So! I'm told there's a Unity build with raytracing (DXR) goodies, i.e. HD render pipeline with optional raytracing for various bits. Here on github: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/Unity-Experimental-DXR

Well about time: DirectX specification -- DX always had a spec, just "mere mortals" could never read it. Thumbs up, Microsoft! https://microsoft.github.io/DirectX-Specs/

Whoa, looks like I've been in build system team for two years already. Time flies! Here's a blogpost, with some neat tools we've built. https://aras-p.info/blog/2019/03/08/Two-years-in-a-build-team/

You! Know that excellent "graphics programming weekly" that Jendrik Illner does every week (https://www.jendrikillner.com/tags/weekly/)? He has a Patreon for it, go throw money at it now! https://www.patreon.com/jendrikillner

StyleGAN looks impressive. https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

Measured Materials Library - 300 free scanned materials for Unity's HDRP https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/02/08/we-have-you-covered-with-the-measured-materials-library/

Quick post on "infinite sky" shader for Unity http://aras-p.info/blog/2019/02/01/Infinite-sky-shader-for-Unity/

Intel's OpenImageDenoise, an open source denoising library (currently CPU based?) is out! https://openimagedenoise.github.io/

Kinda tempted to try it out on my toy path tracer :)

I made a small game with my 9yo kid during #GlobalGameJam2019. If you are a floor-cleaning robot, home means picking up trash to you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6uZx8npe6M https://aras-p.info/projRuumba.html

Oh look, turns out MSVC *does* have a flag that reports where the C++ compiler frontend spends time - "/d1reportTime". So I wrote about it! http://aras-p.info/blog/2019/01/21/Another-cool-MSVC-flag-d1reportTime/

I added flame chart profiler output option to Clang, so I could see where exactly time goes while it's compiling. Already found some good stuff! Here's a blog post with info http://aras-p.info/blog/2019/01/16/time-trace-timeline-flame-chart-profiler-for-Clang/

I made a blog! Where I (again) rant about lack of "where did compile time go?" tools in C++ compilers, and end with a cliffhanger. http://aras-p.info/blog/2019/01/12/Investigating-compile-times-and-Clang-ftime-report/

"Visual Studio IDE is just fine being a 32-bit process", they said :) And now it doesn't have enough memory to *close itself*.

Sure, I am working with the solution that contains whole llvm/clang source code, which is massive. But still!

Direct3D team decorated their office wall with 402 GPUs spanning 35 years of graphics hardware evolution. Nice! https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/directx/2019/01/07/wall-of-gpu-history/