Timothy Lochner

@WickyNilliams @Jonathan_Blow @n00buntu @HolgersenTobias @levelsio @simeonkerkola @GolerGkA gafferongames.com has long been an excellent source for this kind of thing. Quite a few GDC talks too. Theres one about OverWatch that specifically talks about client prediction and replay a lot.

@Jonathan_Blow @n00buntu @HolgersenTobias @levelsio @simeonkerkola @GolerGkA Can you recommend any books that walk through all this kind of assumed knowledge for game dev? There's a million resources on graphics etc, but is there for *everything* else?

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Theologically speaking, heaven is just loads of donuts and dip'n'dots.

@cliffski I implemented my own sin and cos in c++ at one point and could beat std implementations pretty easily. It did build a log LUT at compile time, and then did a configurable number of iterations. Allowed me to trade off speed for accuracy. The whole exercise was surprising.

@younan3000 You have worn the same black shirt and pants every day of your adult life. Of course you haven't.

I have never once in my life gone to the dry cleaner's

Just remember. When God calls you to do something, he's already taken into consideration your retardation.

@lisyarus Supporting ies profiles might also do well to sell the light sources too, but I haven't had enough experience with them to say confidently. ieslibrary.com

@lisyarus There is something off about the lighting, but i think its just the unnatural values of emissives, not the rendering algo itself.

Night-time Bistro scene. This one is extremely noisy due to having a ton of dim emissive geometry

Is there a petition I can sign to get Chris Colinsworth to never commentate on a Chiefs game ever again?

@Arclegger This is some of your best work. 👏

Another slice of pie?

@cliffski @GreyAlien Is there a solution for micro studios without a publisher that looks more like a coop? Kinda like a credit union as opposed to a bank, if that analogy can loosely work.

@lisyarus So many interesting ones. do_forever and do_n_times -- ai behaviors? Grid edge, face, index, etc are also interesting use for components in my experience.

Decided to inspect how many ECS components I currently have in my game, and it's...noticeably more than I thought I have! 🥶

@younan3000 There are mods to make time continue as you pick locks, further enhancing the anxiety experience.

Therapist: When did the anxiety begin? Me:

@younan3000 Between? They're the same movie.

My teaching style is somewhere between Whiplash and The Devil Wears Prada

@nice_byte Also, games desperately want to touch the OS as little as possible. Any overhead from system calls would be blown out by just... the rest of the game.

@dankbaker marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName… I used this when I worked at Stardock (using Oxide tech). It helped in some particular cases tremendously (but it looks to only be 2019 at latest). As for cancelling a build, ctrl+break key cancels builds already???

I can't decide between the 2 biggest features I want in VS, freeze all other threads when stepping or being able to cancel a build.

@SebAaltonen Literally the only thing better than good validation is tight API design that prevents the need for validation. In the simplest cases, this would be like taking by ref instead of pointer and validating it isn't null. Really hard to do tho.

Uncommon opinion: Fixing Vulkan validation errors is so much better than using vendor specific GPU crash dump tools to try to understand why their GPU randomly dies. I am always glad when we get more validation, and thrilled if it finds some issues in our code base.

@BenSimsTech Have you looked at the gltf extensions? KHR_material_sheen combined with KHR_material_transmission seems like it would be a good place to start.

Anyone know of a good cloth-like plausible brdf which also has thin-surface translucency? (Eg when light is behind object, still has a contribution) Seems like the common tend to handle specular, but fall back to a simple wrapped diffuse unrelated to the microfacet dsitribution.

@itmeJP Most bodyweight exercises can be modified. Think push ups on your knees, or at an incline. 20 reps is a lot. Try sets of 8-10, rest, then another set. When it comes to working out, finishing is winning. Don't give up. You got this. 💪

too dark to go for a second walk so thought I'd do some bodyweight exercises 20 reps in and immediately get a cramp in my right ab and just die ollie helped by sitting on top of me. i think im done with bodyweight exercises.

This Grothendieck quote is the best-kept secret about mathematics: Always start with your naive intuition, even if it’s plainly dumb, and then refine it by asking a barrage of “stupid” questions. Waiting in silence until you “get it right” will only lead to paralysis.