Sorry about the delay, but our REAC presentation on shipping Indiana Jones and The Great Circle is finally live, together with all other REAC content https://enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

All REAC 2025 content is LIVE! Enjoy https://enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

In light of the 9000 person layoff from Microsoft, I want to talk about what a games industry could look like that is fully unionized and why I push for that so much. I am not exaggerating when I say I believe it could be world changing. 1/

Not fully there yet but almost.
Tracing primary rays for visibility buffer as a test (as I had the code around it hooked up already), something is bad with encoding of instance/primitive data

Aaah!
Seems InstanceMask on the TLAS instances should be set to something meaningful :D
Now some data in the output, but not correct data yet

Day 1 of summer hobby coding:
all rays miss, but it looks like they passes through the mesh in the AS when viewed in PIX

(It's not an actual linux diploma though, it's just a swimming school using some random penguin logo for the "gold penguin" swimming badge)

Daughter finally managed to get the gold Linux diploma! Gotta start em young.

@mtothevizzah Wow, that's one awesome road

@zeux Awesome! Looking forward to try it out during summer vacation

meshoptimizer 0.24 is out! Featuring new meshlet builder for raytracing workloads, improvements to cluster partitioning, new functions for reindexing, simplification, clustering and coverage computation, many internal improvements and, of course, VS2013 support!

Thanks to Valve for sponsoring most of the work on the core library in this release!

Boost / GitHub stars appreciated as always :)

https://github.com/zeux/meshoptimizer/releases/tag/v0.24

@aras @neilhenning Or a wave.

@zeux @aras This sounds fantastic for real.

But regarding deprecation, did they really manage to not build in a deprecation flow at all in vulkan? I've not really been keeping track

Welcome to REAC 25 next week!
https://enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

I will present and will do my best to give an overview of how the rendering for Indiana Jones and The Great Circle works, as well as some of the things we had to do to ship the title.

@aras :scaredcat:
Looking forward to it but I'm very nervous about my part it. I hope it can turn out OK.

REAC 2025 is next week! https://enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm -- it is a great conference, and positively crazy that it is free.

@jjacobsson @msinilo Fast and Simple are the prefixes that just keep on giving

@c0de517e Looks like the days are wrong. The 10th is a Tuesday, not a Monday.

I expect it's the 10th/11th as planned, and the days just got labeled wrong?

Managed to get to room 46 in Blue Prince yesterday. Took me 31 in-game days, but I must say this has been one of the most interesting and captivating gaming experiences I've had in years.
Still so much to uncover as well.

@sschoener Mr. Sing-in-a-metal-cookie-box is back, and is as 90's as ever!