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In a move very disturbing to those that moved away from Adobe products...

Affinity products (Photo, Designer & Publisher) CAN NO LONGER BE PURCHASED! Instead an announcement about "Creative Freedom" on October 30th. EEK!

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Affinity Products No Longer Available – GameFromScratch.com

Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher are no longer available on any store as canva announce creative freedom event. They are free on iPad!

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 14h

probably GG

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

you can't run this in realtime, node graph takes 200ms to evaluate. the video is sped up

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

remember how burn is useful for 2d masks? it works just as great for 3d masks

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

nevermind there's one closure in this one:

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

surprisingly none of the new built-in nodes have closures, seems like a bit of a missed opportunity to show them in action

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

distributing points in volume is also easier now it seems. starting to like this update

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

apparently there are also native sdf nodes in blender 5 now

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

now that instancing is getting more accessible in blender, the timing couldn't be better to add native gltf gpu instance import to godot
github.com/godotengine/...

passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · Aug 10

godot 4.6 may get native support for gltf gpu instancing

this will allow instantly importing tens of thousands of meshes into godot multimeshes via binary format

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

around 10 nodes more or less yes 😅

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

array on curve is also built-in now. a much better starting point than doing that from scratch

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 1d

Installed Blender 5.0, scatter on surface is now a built-in node ❤️

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

I keep everything default on every OS I use as well, don't have much time to tinker anymore

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

for a lot of linux users it's not as much about wanting to fiddle with the OS as much as it is about not having to rely on a big corporation to make good decisions with users best interests at heart

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

it's more similar to linux so definitely worth a shot

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 2d

every year we're getting closer to the year of the linux desktop 🐧
alternativeto.net/news/2025/10...

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passivestar @passivestar.bsky.social · 3d

I wouldn't wanna mess with a detective who casually lifts a 100kg floor clock to inspect it 😳

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Reposted by passivestar

Vincent Aalbersberg @vincentaalber.bsky.social · 3d

Progress on the detective game experiment made with @godotengine.org
Using custom post-process, a secondary camera for the magnifying glass which can reveal hidden clues and to be able to study objects seamlessly... It's been fairly smooth so far, I'm enjoying the Godot experience 😊

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