Nicolas Silva @nical@mastodon.gamedev.place
Gfx dev @ mozilla / opensource geek / a little too obsessed about vector graphics on the GPU.
Joined Nov 2017
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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
Jendrik Illner's graphics prgramming weekly, issue 73 https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-73/
I blogged about what's new in lyon:
https://nical.github.io/posts/lyon-2018.html
Lyon 0.13.0 is out https://github.com/nical/lyon
Your favorite #rustlang path tessellation crate got its share of bug fixes, new features and API ergonomics improvements.
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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
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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 :)
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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/
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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.)
Ni no kuni 2 frame breakdown: https://blog.thomaspoulet.fr/ninokuni2-frame/
Very interesting interview of Mederic Chasse about the state of real time #vfx in #gamedev https://80.lv/articles/real-time-vfx-overview-from-mederic-chasse/
Fun fact from that presentaion: the encoder can perform some denoising that removes (intentional) film grain to make the frame easier to compress and retain high level information about visual characteristics of the grain so that the decoder can fake it as a post processing effect.
The technical details behind AV1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On9VOnIBSEs
Designing the data model in Our Machinery: https://ourmachinery.com/post/the-story-behind-the-truth-designing-a-data-model/
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More immersive sim stuff, this is a good interview about Deus Ex, Unreal engine, and late 90s game tools:
Following up on the #rust 2d #graphics discussion part 2 - A look at GPU memory management: https://nical.github.io/posts/rust-2d-graphics-02.html
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"Materialize" is a now Opensourced. With this tool, you will be able to convert any image into PBR Material. It's literally Substance/B2M on steroids.
http://www.boundingboxsoftware.com/materialize/
GitHub (Unity project) is here :
https://github.com/BoundingBoxSoftware/Materialize
See it in action :
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I did an interview with lovely folks at "Isetta Engine" (student team at CMU) a while ago, and they managed to edit my random rambling into something that resembles coherent thought! https://isetta.io/interviews/ArasPranckevicius-interview/ -- on graphics, modularity, API design, random other stuff.
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I just updated SMOL-V (library that makes Vulkan shaders more compressible) to accept SPIR-V versions 1.2 and 1.3, e.g. as produced by Microsoft's DXC. https://github.com/aras-p/smol-v
Gfx dev @ mozilla / opensource geek / a little too obsessed about vector graphics on the GPU.
Joined Nov 2017
