Aras Pranckevičius @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

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

Are you creating or modifying Meshes from code in #unity3d? We might have some API improvements planned for that, feedback is welcome. See google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I225X6jAxWN0cheDz_3gnhje3hWNMxTZq3FZQs5KqPc/edit# and forum thread: https://forum.unity.com/threads/feedback-wanted-mesh-scripting-api-improvements.684670/

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/