joeld42

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by joeld42 3y ago
Pico-8 At first he might just browse and play existing games, then modify their sprites and tiles, then start digging into the code. It’s magic.
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by joeld42 3y ago
Because UI, like build systems, are really just huge state dependency graphs in disguise.
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by joeld42 3y ago
There's a bunch here https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples For example, the basic demo window: https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/imgui-sapp.html
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by joeld42 3y ago
I tried for a year to learn XAML (mostly using Avalonia) and it just never clicked for me. Feels like it needs too much secret insider knowledge that you're only going to get with that decade of C#. To much is implicit and magical, and
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by joeld42 3y ago
I am using Avalonia. If I were doing windows only I might use MAUI or WPF or something but afaik they are pretty similar, and I want it to be cross platform on mac. The interface of the app is C#, the core is in CPP (I am tempted to use Zig
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by joeld42 3y ago
I think this is just an artifact of people using much higher particle count these days. When you have more of them it's more noticeable that they are points.
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by joeld42 3y ago
this is pure magic. Amazing stuff.
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by joeld42 3y ago
I use an app called SightReading factory for this https://www.sightreadingfactory.com/ . It's not exactly as you describe as it generates short, random but musical passages for sight reading, but it has a lot of option
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by joeld42 3y ago
Your rendering API is not going to implement GI for you, and having it in a sample app is kind of misleading, that's not really the point. It's probably a mistake to include that as a sample scene as it creates the impression that
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by joeld42 3y ago
If you're looking for something like this, Sokol is a much simpler alternative: https://github.com/floooh/sokol It doesn't support vulkan though, but if that's important to you you're probably much
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by joeld42 3y ago
I've tried this a lot, and I will say no, it's not realistically possible if you're being a purist. The simple counterexample, take setpixel, which takes an image buffer, and returns an image buffer with one pixel changed. No
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by joeld42 3y ago
Yeah but it looks pretty weird and blobby down there, and a lot of the street data is pretty warped and strange looking. I'm playing around with this for a cycling app, I think I'm going to go with sort of a drone follow camera.
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by joeld42 3y ago
Tip: If you're loading these .glbs in blender, add an "Attribute" node in the shader editor, put "Col" in the name field, and connect "Color" to "Base Color" in the material to see the colors.
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by joeld42 3y ago
Krita is freaking amazing and I use it every day.
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by joeld42 4y ago
Yeah i've had to do this with other dependencies (which we didn't have source for) including an old or broken version of the same library we needed. It's a bit of a pain to get everything in a namespace, and of course the blo
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by joeld42 4y ago
you're fine. Sure lots of stuff changes in four years, but plenty more doesn't change. Start applying to stuff that looks good right now, and in the meantime work on porfolio/personal projects using the kinds of tools you wan
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by joeld42 4y ago
It's fine. Usually projects will develop conventions for handling dynamic types, it's not like you never have any idea what type things are. Places where things are ambiguous you add in tests or asserts to make sure the callers ar
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by joeld42 4y ago
As a graphics programmer, my suggestion would be encoding the font into an SDF (signed distance field) texture atlas (there are a lot of tools out there to do this for atlasing text, but it's useful for effects too), then draw both wor
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by joeld42 4y ago
As an appreciator or as a creator? Here's some good first steps either way: - Go to museums, especially exhibits you're not familiar with. - Get a sketchbook and draw/doodle. Don't worry about what you're drawing or
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by joeld42 4y ago
yeah they're used a lot. I think the difference is json is good for data or apis you want to be easily shared, flatbuffers (or protobuf or captnproto) are good for data that stays internal. That's just a guideline and there are pl
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by joeld42 4y ago
Hi, this sounds very interesting. I'd consider it as an indie dev if the DRM stuff weren't there, IMO any injectable DRM stuff is going to cause more problems than it solves, and piracy is not a huge concern anyways (it's &qu
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by joeld42 4y ago
Do it. I've used Ink for tutorials, and it's magic. It works so well. If you add a way to update changes while the app or game is running, it makes an amazing workflow for the tutorial authors or level designers.
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by joeld42 4y ago
You can only get so far with this, the lighting and perspective won't match and you'll end up with a "collage" look, especially as you add more images. You can sometimes feed the result back through img2img and get it to
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by joeld42 4y ago
All of these are good, I'd also suggest looking at videos from Grant Abbott on youtube, he's got a lot of blender videos that are both beginner friendly but non-trivial and good, clear explanations.
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by joeld42 4y ago
This might have changed, but in my experience the big barrier to having a distributed render farm is transferring possibly many gigs of textures and resources (sims, point clouds, etc) to each render agent, not necessarily the render time.
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by joeld42 4y ago
IMO we're pretty far off from building a single model that can generate a whole film at the press of a button. But I think a more interesting distinction is a model that allows a human to generate professional quality without spending
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by joeld42 4y ago
I struggle with this too. What is helping me (but I still haven't figured it out) is to try and stop thinking of it as a long project with a single "DONE" but instead as a series of steps (milestones) which would be good deci
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by joeld42 4y ago
I don't agree with apple that this should be rejected, but it does seem like something that would work better as a web app. Also then it would be available to people on other platforms as well.
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by joeld42 4y ago
When I run into this I like to suggest "lets sketch out the design of the whole system, and then only build the part we need right now". This helps make sure you're not building yourself into a corner, while also letting you
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by joeld42 4y ago
Just talk to him. Tell him you'd like to get more recognition from the higher-ups for the work you've done on the app. He might not be aware he's taking credit, just trying to streamline the information without explaining the

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