Maarten van der Gaag 🌻

@hermenhulst Congratulations, Hermen!

It’s a true privilege to be asked to lead the new Studio Business Group for Sony Interactive. I’m excited to continue working with incredibly talented teams and studios to deliver unforgettable game and entertainment experiences. #sony #playstation #playstationstudios

@_plop_ Lol. I see what you did there. 😄

Look how cute it is!

@_plop_ On any reasonable device it's between hardly any diskspace or hardly any diskspace. So imo just because the ratio is high, doesn't mean the added complexity justifies the mere 10MB saved.

Your app writes a binary cache file on exit and reads it back when it starts. It's 5-10 MB but would be 500 KB with LZ4. Would you compress it?

Brave a deadly frontier in distant lands: Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition comes to PC on 21 March. Join Aloy as you confront new dangers in the Forbidden West and Burning Shores. Wishlist now on Steam and Epic Games Store! 🏹 Read more: blog.playstation.com/2024/01/25/hor…

When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents. In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy. It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.

Want to learn #DecimaEngine inside-out? We are looking for a technical writer! boards.greenhouse.io/guerrilla/jobs…

I waited for 2 years for this day! #SIGGRAPH2023 #RealTimeLive! will start at 6 pm PDT. The live stream on twitch.tv/acmSIGGRAPH will begin in less than 5 hours. Watch it LIVE and vote for the WINNER! The stage is set, the presenters are ready, and the countdown has started!

I'm honored to be presenting @Guerrilla's new Voxel Cloud tech from #HorizonForbbidenWest #BurningShores @ #rtradvances during #SIGGRAPH2023 with "Nubis, Cubed: Methods (and madness) to model and render immersive real-time voxel-based clouds". 👇 #Nubis3" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">advances.realtimerendering.com/s2023/index.ht…

The stage is set, the computers are running, and we are ready for the show! Do NOT miss it! Watch LIVE and VOTE for the audience choice award! Free live stream: twitch.tv/acmSIGGRAPH #SIGGRAPH2023 #RealTimeLive!

Treating #beef like #coal 🪨 would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions Cattle are a surprisingly large producer of greenhouse gases - time to stop eating beef 34% of global greenhouse gases i from food production #climatechange #vegetarian economist.com/graphic-detail…

@games_inu Do the above one and pick the color with the largest component.

Question for #UE5 material experts: can you do this in an Unreal material? Instead of interpolating colors between vertices just take the nearest?

@JKashaar @RYStorm Ah right, interesting!

@RYStorm @JKashaar Have you tried googling a recipe? You get a fake person's life story first. Search engine optimization is to blame.

@itsPaulAi But not in the netherlands, it seems 😔

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ChatGPT has now a big problem. Google just updated its free competitor, Bard. Here are 8 things impossible on ChatGPT but that Bard can do (for free):

Guerrilla today

Saddened to see more talented ex-colleagues laid off this week… If any ex-Unity people (or current Unity people) want to have an exploratory chat about @Guerrilla or the Decima Engine feel free to reach out to me! We’ve got a bunch of positions open!

@marcosalvi Very cool! Is there a performace/memory tradeoff possible with smaller networks vs more stored data?

The cat is finally out of the bag :-) I am particularly proud of this work, which was a fantastic team effort.

@9eronimo @ChoskerSanz And yes, it's a lot of data 🤭

@9eronimo @ChoskerSanz Its indeed all generated offline and present in many of the assets for any location on the assets. Based on where the artists paint it in the world, it is actually enabled and shown at run-time using rules and masking in the shaders (up and a bit north :), in creases, etc)

@9eronimo hello! Are there any talks available/upcoming about the moss in HFW? I'm curious if the scatter positions are computed offline or at runtime