Aras Pranckevičius @aras@mastodon.gamedev.place

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

@sinbad as an office space? not really :)

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

@cinebox no, that would be a completely orthogonal feature

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!

@mhutch My garden is also using LTE (Long-Term Evolution)

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

@xananax thanks for the concern! So far I think I can afford it, will ask community for help if I ever need it

@xananax I'm just paying for all expenses myself. Don't need donations.

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

@jakob yeah it's a bit confusing, isn't it. "you get a render pipeline, and you get a render pipeline" (same with physics, etc.)

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/