VFX/Tech Artist for work
Otherwise a (VR) gamedev generalist, 3D and 2D artist, music producer, DJ, twitch streamer and general art and tech enjoyer.
I decided it's time to replay #codevein since the second one has been announced and... man, I really do miss #UnrealEngine 4 times when games just looked as they should.
Modern UE5 AAA games seem to have roughly the same visual fidelity, yet perform absolutely terribly while being a shimmering mess of TAA, upscaling artifacts and other visual noise. I really wonder why so much visual clarity was lost in the UE4 -> 5 transition.
Me, in front of #bitwig: "Time to study some music theory, this chord progression doesn't sound right."
Me, 10 minutes later: *playing Giorno's theme (Golden Wind) on the MIDI keyboard instead of being productive* "What was I doing again?"
@lynne Somehow I'm not surprised. Sad he doesn't use it anymore tho.
@jonikorpi Looks cool and is VR supported (which all cockpit games should be nowadays tbh)? Sign me up, thanks for sharing.
@shikiwoo.com I thought that was an optional feature when building a cat
Not sure why society seems to hate lazy people. They didnt even do anything.
Every time I try writing anything #gamedesign related for my personal projects, I end up with more tables than text. Is this normal?
Whoever invented the "when user tries to open the program, focus an existing window if present instead of opening a new one" #ui paradigm should really be given a stern talking to. Especially as a lot of programs implement it in a way which makes it impossible to open multiple window.
- Sincerely, everyone who's trying to multitask
@runevision From selfhosted solutions I've used svn and git for larger projects so far and despite all the git hate in this thread, I would argue that it's still the best solution, assuming you manage to get a good GUI that visualizes well what's going on with your local repo.
We do that at work currently and the only issues we get is artists sometimes getting confused when something out of the usual pull+commit+push workflow is needed, but nothing a trip to the closest dev's desk can't fix.
It's hard being the technical guy in #DJ communities. You're trying to help someone with technical details of an interesting hardware idea and someone else comes along just to claim you're wrong, while demonstrating that they have absolutely no idea about the most basic concepts of what signal flow is, let alone how the hardware we all use works under the hood.
It's a common case on the internet, but DJ communities seem to have an above average amount of confidentially incorrect people.
Why does it always happen that if I find a song I really like in the evening and it turns out it's too short/doesn't have a #DJ edit, I'll end up staying up all night to make one? This us like the third time in a row this happened.
#Git #LargeFiles #Storage #GameDev
New blog post about one way to keep your large-file storage size down when using git.
https://dbat.codeberg.page/posts/git-large-file-technique.html
I hope it's not bad advice. Please let me know of bugs etc.
Also, if anyone has other techniques, will be happy to try them and add them to the post.
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@supernacho In my opinion most entertainment sectors have long since crossed the point of oversaturation where the only real way is to compete on quality, not quantity.
@djlink Standing desk time?
I noticed that a *lot* of the crawlers/bots we see on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com are spoofed e.g. a "Meta" crawler coming from 10s of different small ISPs across the world (the real one comes from a Meta ASN).
I deployed a change this morning which adds source ASN validation (alongside user-agent string analysis) to our "known crawlers/bots" classifier & well, the results speak for themselves. Attached graphs show RPS from "known crawlers/bots" to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com.
#WebDev #BBC #Bots
The more I try working with various #c or #rust libraries, the more I appreciate just how much unnecessary verbosity and general unnecessary complications higher level languages manage to abstract away.
The lower level you go, the more it becomes about "pleasing the machine god" instead of being about writing code that actually does what you need to do. Not sure if I'm a fan, since most of the time I just want to get things done, not reinvent the wheel.
