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by paavohtl 1y ago
Thanks for your kind words! Researching and writing this consumed most of my free time for about two weeks, but I think it was worth it.
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by paavohtl 1y ago
Yes, I wrote the article. I wouldn't say the system in the release version is vastly different to the pre-release demo (there was only one to my knowledge, the E3 2005 one), as that just demonstrates a tightly scripted sequence of even
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by paavohtl 1y ago
Radiant AI is in Oblivion and every game they've made since then. There's nothing to enable. The issue is primarily with the game content; it's used all over the place, but in the final game it's not very impactful.
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What was Radiant AI, anyway?(blog.paavo.me)
234 points by paavohtl 1y ago|118 comments
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by paavohtl 1y ago
Not easily. There's no built-in way to access the abstract syntax tree (or equivalent) of a function at run time. The best thing you can do is to obtain the source code of a function using `.toString()` and then use a separate JS parse
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by paavohtl 1y ago
JS has used "well-known symbols"[1] to allow extending / overriding the functionality of objects for about 10 years. For example, an object is an iterable if it has a `[Symbol.iterator]` property. Symbols are valid object key
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by paavohtl 1y ago
Valkey is a Linux Foundation project. Talking about license changes is just pure irrational FUD.
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by paavohtl 1y ago
CSS-in-JS (like how Styled Components and Emotion do it) is primarily a solution to code organization. It doesn't fundamentally change how CSS works.
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by paavohtl 2y ago
The linked complaint is specifically about Microsoft Copilot, which despite the name is completely unrelated to the original GitHub Copilot. VS Code's integrated GitHub Copilot nowadays has the Copilot Edits feature, which can actually
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by paavohtl 2y ago
I certainly agree that Java / JVM had a lost decade (or even more), but not really with C# / .NET. When do you consider that lost decade to have been? C# has had a major release with new language features every 1-3 years, consiste
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by paavohtl 2y ago
Really? Officially they don't even support modifying or creating new levels: https://baldursgate3.game/news/community-update-27-official-... . You are mostly limited to visual changes, UI mods and balance / tu
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by paavohtl 2y ago
You can support many lights in WebGL just like you would with OpenGL. I implemented a rendering engine in WebGL2 a couple of months ago with deferred shading and support for hundreds of point lights using light volumes. I also implemented a
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by paavohtl 2y ago
Alan Wake 2 has had path tracing from day 1, and it looks excellent with (and without) it.
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by paavohtl 2y ago
(the) Gnorp Apologue is a fairly popular clicker / idle game written in Rust which has sold at least 200K copies ( https://steamcommunity.com/games/1473350/announcements/detai... ). Steam: https:/&#x
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by paavohtl 2y ago
Most people posting to /r/gamedev have never shipped a game or even seriously attempted to (neither have I, to be clear). It's largely a forum for (beginner) hobbyists. My point being: it's very easy to "switch&quot
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Trying and failing to optimize frustum culling in a WebGL and TS and Rust engine(blog.paavo.me)
3 points by paavohtl 2y ago|1 comments
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by paavohtl 2y ago
If you have any questions, AMA.
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by paavohtl 2y ago
I visited Tirana and Durrës about 5 years ago. Durrës was a pretty great place to visit with its long beach, views of the Adriatic, decent restaurants, roman & other ruins and a nice archeological museum. Certainly more touristy than Ti
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by paavohtl 2y ago
To my knowledge most if not all of these people driving Rust adoption in Linux are seasoned Linux contributors and/or maintainers. They are not outsiders "coming to other people's projects".
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by paavohtl 2y ago
The only mainstream language I'm aware of which supports high / arbitrary precision decimal numbers as a language feature is C#. Java, Python and Ruby have them as libraries included with the standard distribution, but to my knowl
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by paavohtl 2y ago
The answer in my team's case is browser support and especially Safari on iOS. Our UI is quite complex and demanding regarding functionality, visual presentation and accessibility and would benefit greatly from most of these features, e
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by paavohtl 2y ago
position: relative adds a fixed offset to the position the element would have been placed in normally, but position: anchor can be used to place an element near any arbitrary element, regardless of its place in the DOM hierarchy.
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by paavohtl 3y ago
I think it was the first language to specifically introduce the async and await keywords, but it wasn't even the first language on the .NET platform to support the programming model - that honor goes to F#. See https://tomas
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by paavohtl 3y ago
It's a typo.
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by paavohtl 3y ago
Dependencies are not allowed to use unstable features either with the stable compiler. The only exception is the standard library, which uses numerous unstable features even with a stable distribution of Rust.
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by paavohtl 3y ago
Contraption Maker[1] is very similar to TIM, and as it happens it's also by the same creator. He also released a large level pack of TIM-style levels just a couple of weeks ago. [1] https://store.steampowered.com/app&#x
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by paavohtl 3y ago
It can absolutely be written in JavaScript (it is a Turing complete language after all), and it is a common utility function found in most general utility libraries like Lodash and Ramda.
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by paavohtl 3y ago
I don't think the engine itself is buggy, or at least not all parts. Source 2 has been used in Dota 2 since 2015 and they also shipped Half-Life Alyx using it in 2020; neither is consider particularly buggy.
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by paavohtl 3y ago
That's technically not true – they've licensed it out to Facepunch to create a sequel to Garry's Mod (which was one of the most popular Source 1 games): https://sbox.facepunch.com/about/ . It is the only
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by paavohtl 3y ago
Author here! That's my exact monitor. I actually started writing a blog post about it earlier this year when I got it, but didn't manage to finish it yet. It also has its own share of technical issues, though overall it is the bes

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