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Amélie Heinrich

@beachedxo.bsky.social

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Graphics Programmer 19yo | he/him | Paris, France 🇫🇷 Français/English/Norsk OK + 日本語 N5 Tinkering with rays, meshlets and console platforms Final year of BSc Student Game Dev

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 26d

Just announcing that I am open for contracting for the following year!

Looking for a graphics/engine programmer to help you out on your project? Feel free to reach out.

My expertise is primarily in graphics programming as well as console platforms.

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 4h

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 4h

My new blog post is out! In this new post I go into detail in how I implemented my D3D12/Vulkan/Metal RHI in my game engine Kaleidoscope. Link in replies!

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 3d

Decided I'd merge my renderer into my engine since they were branched

But before hand I decided to do some editor stuff, and I am additionally working on a Gigi like "render graph as a data asset" system...

Will keep you guys updated

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rtryan98.bsky.social @rtryan98.bsky.social · 3d

After quite a bit of work, I am finally done with the first blog post about ocean rendering! You can find it here: rtryan98.github.io/2025/10/04/o...

I've also decided to create a video to showcase the ocean simulation in motion: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OXm...

Ocean Rendering, Part 1 - Simulation · Robert Ryan - Graphics Programmer

rtryan98.github.io

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 4d

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Join the Kaleidoscope Discord Server!

Check out the Kaleidoscope community on Discord - hang out with 2 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 4d

For the people who are interested, I made a discord server for my game engine!

If you wanna come chat, roast my code or just talk programming and showcase your own stuff, feel free to join

Link in replies

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 5d

Will be doing RT pipeline and MDI, expect a blog post when it's complete o7

Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 5d

Renderer is now fully functional on Mac + Metal!

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 6d

Yep, all of them are passing except RT pipeline and device generated commands (unimplemented for now!)

Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 6d

Still early stage some stuff is broken but dw about ittttt

Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 6d

Also yes I’m porting my engine to Mac and Metal3

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 6d

In Vulkan I can fetch it via SPIRV intrinsic, with D3D12 I can get it via updated root constant at a reserved binding, but I'm not sure how to handle it with Metal since I don't have access to specific bindings in the shader (everything has to be bindless).

Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 6d

Metal devs -- has anyone achieved ExecuteIndirect emulation with Metal Shader Converter? I know I can write an MSL kernel to go from indirect commands -> Metal ICB, but for MDI I'm mostly curious how I fetch DrawID in HLSL.

Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 15d

We don’t know if Physint is UE we can keep praying

Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 18d

Was it in Finnish though 👀

Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 19d

Been playing some Ghost of Tsushima and HOLY FUCK

Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 26d

If my profile interests you, feel free to shoot me a DM or an email at [email protected]!

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 26d

I was already trusted by Quantic Dream & Ubisoft to work on performance tasks on console platforms as an intern, and have been able to work in AAA codebases throughout my career.

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 26d

Throughout my career I've gained experience on various topics like graphics programming with Vulkan, DX12 and all major console APIs. I am also knowledgeable on rendering techniques and raytracing, and overall comfortable working with consoles.

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 26d

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 26d

Welp, just finished my last day at Ubisoft

Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · 28d

They are conceptually different APIs due to the fact they target different platforms

D3D12 was meant for desktop
Vulkan was meant for mobile

Now that people are Vulkaning on PC they're adding stuff to make it more bearable

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · Sep 2

Some people think the next step in graphics is work graphs, some others think real-time PT

I want the adoption of ResourceDescriptorHeap on every modern platform (PC + Console) by 2026 otherwise I’m reconverting to web development

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Amélie Heinrich @beachedxo.bsky.social · Sep 2

You wanna move to Tokyo with your son sooooo baaaad oooOoooOo

an optical illusion of a black and white spiral on a white background

ALT: an optical illusion of a black and white spiral on a white background

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Luc Heinrich @luc-heinrich.bsky.social · Aug 27

I need to move to a country where people actually give a shit about living together and building a community rather than being egotistic and individualistic fucktards.

Case in point : Parisian cyclists.

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