Nicolas Silva @nical@mastodon.gamedev.place

Librem 5 hardware update report for May 8th!

Including: Display drivers accepted upstream, Mesa, SMS, and compositor work.

https://puri.sm/posts/may-progress-update-librem-5-hardware/

Here's the #YouTube playlist for the talks and demos we had at #GodotCon Brussels 2019.

Lots of interesting topics ranging from neuroscience to GPU particle collisions via visual debugging and porting old DOS games to #GodotEngine! #gamedev

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeG_dAglpVo5XPsWqBiXXg6wvee11yDeS

Long time no toot!

#GodotEngine 3.1 is getting close to the release candidate, expect the stable version in coming weeks!

You can test 3.1 beta 4 now and report any bugs you find: https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-3-1-beta-4

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 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/

Another #Arch meme. I steal the best ones.

An interview with Elan Ruskin on engines, tools, and 15 years of AAA experience. https://isetta.io/interviews/ElanRuskin-interview/
(HT to @KostasAAA for the link.)

More immersive sim stuff, this is a good interview about Deus Ex, Unreal engine, and late 90s game tools:

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/DavidLightbown/20181023/328687/Classic_Tools_Retrospective_The_tools_that_built_Deus_Ex_with_Chris_Norden.php