Scott Michaud

@Warka101 @scionti_design @UnrealEngine @quixeltools The benefit is that, for the most part, the same object will work in various lighting environments. The lights (especially when you can afford real-time reflections) will pull the material in the right direction.

@Warka101 @scionti_design @UnrealEngine @quixeltools It's a semi-broad category of 3D materials. Its top feature is that it respect conservation of energy. It's typically a calculation involving a material's base color, whether it behaves like a metal or a dielectric, how smooth it is (mirror vs diffuse), etc.

When we use physical based lighting Here is a comparison. I did a picture with my iphone using manual settings same settings ported over to Unreal Engjne 5.3 Lumen artstation.com/pscionti #UE5 #UnrealEngine5 #lighting #archviz #realism #videogames @UnrealEngine @quixeltools

@AndreElijah Oh no! Best of luck!

Just got flooded. Fuck.

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@unrealengine So the launcher said that an update was available for a bunch of engine versions, but it looks like it just re-installs the same version. Why did updates get signaled? The main concern is if someone got into your build system and pushed something.

@ryanshrout Interesting design win for ARC! videocardz.com/press-release/…

@TylerGlaiel Gotta go fast.

my god they spend the first HOUR AND A HALF of the speedrun repeatedly casting Aim on themselves to grind to level 50 before actually playing the game wtf

@vzverovich Build Systems> Why program with JSON when you can program with XML and YAML?

What if we add statements and expression to JSON and turn it into a programming language? Has anyone tried this before?

@steveklabnik @kourge From a C++ angle, I appreciate that Rust (and Swift) values explicit end of life of type instances. Sometimes you need to express very important instructions (ex: stop recording video so it doesn't corrupt) at end of scope. With value types, less need to communicate with caller.

@lizardengland Shirobako: If you're a creative, it will hit close to home. I mean that in both ways.

@oschonrock @lefticus @odinthenerd @janwilmans I think the confusion is that Jason is saying there would be at least one instance of the side-effects, not 0.

Without checking: how many times is the destructor of Example() called?

@CplusplusVille @ericniebler I mean that looks like one of the simpler solutions to me... unless a vector (possibly with an allocator) has some desirable properties.

@ericniebler #include <initializer_list> struct point { int i, j; }; void foo( std::initializer_list<point> ) {} int main() { foo({{1,2}, {3,4}, {5,6}, {7,8}}); } You didn't say it cannot be an abomination.

Here's my next C++ head-scratcher. If I have: struct point { int i, j; }; void foo( point ); I can... foo( {1,2} ); What if I want `foo` to take an arbitrary number of points as separate arguments? Is there any way to make this work: foo( {1,2}, {3,4}, ...etc );

Recording some demo footage in one of the new LightTwist studios, but even on the virtual set not everything goes according to plan…. "Fuck it! We'll do it live!"

@BishopBarron @GovTimWalz The assertion is that the parents of a 12-year-old should be allowed to force her to give birth. The problem with legally preventing abortions is (as I see it) that it plays God. Tangible support for the mother is the better path. The rest is between God and them.

Friends, there is a morally outrageous bill that has now been signed into law by @GovTimWalz. This bill is the most radical abortion law in the country. We must continue to stand against this barbarism. Pray for the conversion of hearts and minds.

@matiasgoldberg Because we need to get much better at software engineering. Unfortunately, it seems like people are more interesting in justifying awful than identifying and fixing it.

Someone please, PLEASE, explain me while the Android (Vulkan) videogame I'm working on loads faster than most apps I have installed. We literally load 800MB of RAM and compile all shaders upfront. And yet it still takes LESS time.

@donasarkar @bdsams Nah it only kills you once. :p

@bdsams Omg are you watching that sport that kills you again

Bengals thread, I am ready to hurt again.

@AndreElijah @aras_p That said I've seen people talk about hachyderm.io/explore. mastodon.social is probably the best general-purpose one if you can get in because it's run by the Mastodon devs. mstdn.social is another general one that's open. Don't know their admin though.

@AndreElijah For the most part the server doesn't *really* matter. You'd probably want to avoid DMs for sensitive things because AFAIK the admins can read them. No end-to-end encryption. Consider it a public space. I'm personally on mastodon.gamedev.place, run by @aras_p (ex-unity).

So who's got a guide for Mastodon for XR folks? Trying to figure out what server I should join and how to find everyone...

@br "The purpose of programming is to transform data that you have into data that you want."

A serious question for professional programmers: What is the purpose of programming? I am looking for one- or two-sentence answers for an essay. (It's surprising how challenging it is to find progressional programmers, even language creators, talking about this basic concept.)

@SebAaltonen The problem is that they are assuming that I'm just holding on to memory, file handles, etc. I may not be. I may be using deinit to ensure that a video recording stopped without corruption on a critical error. Now I need to worry where else they think they know better than me.

@SebAaltonen Yeah, good they're a deterministic lifetime holdout. One thing that concerns me, though, is that destructors are not called when leaving the entry point. The easy workarounds are to defer or wrap in a function. onlinegdb.com/edDSecgnn Reason: "Process will free memory anyway".

I am reading a Swift Metal example. This language is much more readable to me than Objective-C. Seems nice.