Aras Pranckevičius @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

I wrote about optimizing the new C++ based Blender OBJ importer, and it accidentally ventured into calling conventions topic. https://aras-p.info/blog/2022/05/12/speeding-up-blender-obj-import/

Tiny blog post with color gradients in sRGB (particle systems in Unity), Linear (vfx graph in Unity) and Oklab. https://aras-p.info/blog/2021/11/29/Gradients-in-linear-space-arent-better/

I looked into lossless compression options in OpenEXR and write a small post with the findings. Next up, trying to add/tweak more compression thingies! https://aras-p.info/blog/2021/08/04/EXR-Lossless-Compression/

Alright, first blog post of 2021 -- I did some more texture compression performance testing on Apple M1. https://aras-p.info/blog/2021/01/18/Texture-Compression-on-Apple-M1/

I made a blog post about GPU texture compression, with way more scatter plots than you ever asked for. https://aras-p.info/blog/2020/12/08/Texture-Compression-in-2020/

I made a demo. nesnausk! - Black Hole https://aras-p.info/blog/2020/07/26/Black-Hole-Demo/

I made a blog post! But can you Handle it? https://aras-p.info/blog/2020/04/11/Various-details-about-Handles/

A while ago I made ClangBuildAnalyzer for Clang9+ "-ftime-trace" analysis of the whole build. Just made it work 3x faster and use 15x less memory on large builds. v1.2.0: https://github.com/aras-p/ClangBuildAnalyzer/releases/tag/v1.2.0

Oy! The demo team has shipped final 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜 demo version. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQZobAhgayA and more details at https://unity3d.com/the-heretic #unity3d

Looks like I've been 14 years at Unity by now. So instead of doing something useful, I wrote one of them "here's a look at the past" blog posts :) https://aras-p.info/blog/2020/01/04/Fourteen-years-at-Unity-o_O/

Looks like I managed to remove 747 thousand lines of code in 2019. Major cheating, since half a million of that was versioned Quicktime SDK headers that we no longer need.

Oy! I linked to doc describing more Mesh API improvements in #unity3d 2020.1, but we've changed & expanded the API a bit. Here's an updated doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QC7NV7JQcvibeelORJvsaTReTyszllOlxdfEsaVL2oA/edit# -- feedback would be great.

So! This Mastodon instance is almost two years old! 🎉

I hope it's useful for some people (for me personally, not much TBH, I guess lack of critical mass).

Most of my time there is moderating spam accounts & spam posts :)

and a couple of screenshots:

Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rdtLRe68Yo

So this happened: "It's Raining Cubes", an attempt at making a 4KB #demoscene demo with
Andreia, Lina and Tomas. Ended up at 6.6KB :)

Executable, source, video, etc. over at https://aras-p.info/blog/2019/11/18/Its-Raining-Cubes/

So! Unity 2019.3 added some improvements to Mesh data *write* API. Now I'm adding ability to *read* Mesh data from Jobs/Burst. Does this make sense (doc link)? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QC7NV7JQcvibeelORJvsaTReTyszllOlxdfEsaVL2oA/edit#

New Input System for Unity! https://blogs.unity3d.com/2019/10/14/introducing-the-new-input-system/

‪Demoscene continues to be crazy: a raytracer done as an SQL statement http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=83222‬

‪New paper from Morten Mikkelsen: “Surface Gradient Based Bump Mapping Framework”, https://mmikkelsen3d.blogspot.com/p/3d-graphics-papers.html ‬