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by berkut 11y ago
I use Linux (and GDB) at work and home for C++ stuff, and unfortunately, GDB (even with pretty printers configured correctly) often doesn't work correctly for things like templated params, templated classes. Sometimes GDB won't sh
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by berkut 12y ago
Nitpick - it was composited in AfterEffects, it was simulated in Cinema4D and rendered in VRay.
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by berkut 12y ago
Not sure, but I know of people at top-10 universities in the UK who were offered stupid amounts of money to move over there.
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by berkut 12y ago
Pixar have recently started using Katana as their lighting tool as well, replacing their existing custom solution.
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by berkut 12y ago
There don't seem to be any customisation options there either though...
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by berkut 12y ago
That's for function pointers though, which is a bit different...
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by berkut 12y ago
Yeah, I regularly try it (both with its native keybindings and with it's Maya emulation mode), and it has got better. But it's still painful doing many things in a fluid / connected way, and generally it just doesn't sca
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by berkut 12y ago
Using Maya isn't the only way to use Renderman: * via Rib files (there used to be Blender exporters) * via the RI API * via Katana (not that that's free either, but...)
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by berkut 12y ago
Yeah, the new price is really aggressive, and half the cost per node of VRay and Arnold (the two renderers that over the past three years have been eating into PRMan's VFX marketshare quite dramatically).
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by berkut 12y ago
There are actually better apps than Maya for modelling / UVing, but for animation / rigging / skinning / techanim it's the benchmark. Blender's got most of the functionality in theory, but it's really not
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by berkut 12y ago
Slight correction: his sci-tech award was for MIS and "efficient Monte Carlo path tracing for image synthesis", which have only been in PRMan for the last two releases (PRMan 18 added geo area lights with MIS evaluation, and 19 ad
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by berkut 12y ago
As the original author of that benchmark, I should point out that that was LLVM SVN (unreleased) against GCC 4.8 & 4.9 - I couldn't get GCC 5.0 SVN to build, so it's possible 5.0 will be faster again than LLVM in certain situa
583.
by berkut 12y ago
I left the defence industry eight years ago now, but back then (and based on that job posting below it looks like it's possibly still going on), it was a weird combination of ADA, C++ (sometimes C instead) and Java. In the late 90s, th
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by berkut 12y ago
Importing of CSVs is a joke in both OO and LibreOffice - I literally have to rename files to .csv to get them to interpret .txt (or other extensions) as comma-separated - there's no nice "Import" menu like Excel has had for d
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by berkut 12y ago
I'd guess Jacco Bikker and Jeroen van Schijndel are still involved though?
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by berkut 12y ago
It depends on the context: for path-tracing (uni-directional / bi-directional without photon mapping / VCM), "forward" generally means starting at the camera (eye) and bouncing around the scene. "backward" gene
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by berkut 12y ago
Even if you don't statically link Rust's runtime? If so I can see that working for very simple code, but what about wanting to use Tasks/Threads or do I/O. Is that converted to native system calls at compile time?
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by berkut 12y ago
Well for one: at least currently, there's a much better chance of having the c/c++ runtimes on a system than the Rust one I imagine.
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by berkut 12y ago
"Breaking" Netscape? A stand-alone application? Really? Anticompetitive maybe, but Microsoft embedding IE into Windows didn't break Netscape or other browsers in any functional way from my recollection (and I was using NN 2&#
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by berkut 12y ago
It probably would only take a month to get software to "just" fire the guns working. But the defence industry I believe (left it 7 years ago, but still know people in it) still largely use the waterfall model for designing softwar
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by berkut 12y ago
The F35's avionics suite is not just for controlling the aircraft (which is difficult in itself), it's for controlling, analysing and displaying the data from sensors (radars, RWR, IFF, infra-red, etc) on an integrated display sys
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by berkut 12y ago
Of course, I was just pointing out it's not always necessary to use alloca - I've written a production-level path-tracer without needing to allocate stack memory dynamically.
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by berkut 12y ago
Do you mean compared to C++ compiled with LLVM (as opposed to GCC)? I've found that LLVM is generally faster than GCC and in some cases significantly so.
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by berkut 12y ago
Erm... Photon mapping uses "forward" path tracing to trace photons from the lights, not the camera. In conventional (uni-directional) path tracing, rays are shot from the camera only, and bounce around the scene (other than for li
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by berkut 12y ago
It's quite possible to not use alloca(), but just use C++'s placement new operator to re-use memory already allocated on the stack. I'm not sure if Rust has something similar to placement new, but I'm sure custom allocat
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by berkut 12y ago
I've got an early 2011 MBP which has exactly the same issue - I'm on the third logic board (GPU and a chipset both went on separate occasions within 3-year warranty) and second battery (battery wasn't due to heat though, just
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by berkut 12y ago
The problem is that as you push the screen back from vertical, the area for air to escape gets reduced.
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by berkut 12y ago
You only get those performance gains if you've got the cache and memory bandwidth - which is often very lacking. E.g. AVX (8-wide) was added for SandyBridge, but it wasn't always that usable until Intel doubled the cache bandwidth
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by berkut 12y ago
"Pretty much everyone" Really? I know companies like Blur are trialling it, but they're still using VRay. I know The Mill have done stuff with it, but they're still using Arnold too.
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by berkut 12y ago
Erm??... That's a biased renderer that uses all sorts of caching and approximations that there's no CPU-based renderer that supports (VRay's closest with it's ability to configure primary and secondary rays using diffe

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