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what the hell is this brdf
November 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
what the hell is this brdf
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Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2".
I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads):
mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...
I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads):
mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...
Tom Forsyth (@[email protected])
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Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I sha...
mastodon.gamedev.place
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2".
I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads):
mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...
I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads):
mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...
I went to the Van Gogh museum and my favorite painting in the entire exhibition isn't even Van Gogh, it's a Belgian painter I hadn't heard of before. This painting is fucking crazy to see in person, it's like hdr. I kind of don't want to leave.
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
I went to the Van Gogh museum and my favorite painting in the entire exhibition isn't even Van Gogh, it's a Belgian painter I hadn't heard of before. This painting is fucking crazy to see in person, it's like hdr. I kind of don't want to leave.
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Here's a great video explaining/showing why the common CG practice of plugging smudge/fingerprints/dirt/whatever maps into roughness is wrong and why it should be done using material layering instead. This video is really well-made!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4L...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4L...
Doing Surface Imperfections Right | Vray, Cycles, Arnold..
YouTube video by Lucas
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Here's a great video explaining/showing why the common CG practice of plugging smudge/fingerprints/dirt/whatever maps into roughness is wrong and why it should be done using material layering instead. This video is really well-made!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4L...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW4L...
Feeling inspired from the doom talks at GPC. All around great conference this year, hope to return for the next :)
November 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Feeling inspired from the doom talks at GPC. All around great conference this year, hope to return for the next :)
surprised games workshop hasn't sued them out of existence
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
surprised games workshop hasn't sued them out of existence
from Gabe Gear to GabeCube
November 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
from Gabe Gear to GabeCube
task manager guy canceled for running sleazy scareware business in the naughties :(
youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8?...
youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8?...
Dave Plummer: The Man Who Scammed Millions (in 2006)
YouTube video by Enderman
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 6:13 AM
task manager guy canceled for running sleazy scareware business in the naughties :(
youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8?...
youtu.be/1GeF9AjlqP8?...
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RenderDoc v1.41 is now available! It adds threaded support for shader debugging, enabling debugging of shaders that use subgroup/wave operations and simulating all threads in a compute group.
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
Release Version v1.41 · baldurk/renderdoc
Version v1.41
This release includes new threaded support for the shader debugger on all supported APIs (D3D11, D3D12, Vulkan). More details are found below, and please report any problems encounter...
github.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:13 PM
RenderDoc v1.41 is now available! It adds threaded support for shader debugging, enabling debugging of shaders that use subgroup/wave operations and simulating all threads in a compute group.
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend...
Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds
i was today years old when i learned the chemical brothers sampled a moroccan song for galvanize
youtu.be/q0AcZkR_LUs?...
youtu.be/q0AcZkR_LUs?...
Najat Aatabou - Hadi Kedba Bayna / هادي كذبة باينة
YouTube video by Najat Aatabou
youtu.be
October 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
i was today years old when i learned the chemical brothers sampled a moroccan song for galvanize
youtu.be/q0AcZkR_LUs?...
youtu.be/q0AcZkR_LUs?...
lesson for progressive candidates who care about winning: don't let pieces of shit like Hasan anywhere near your orbit.
The only thing it does is give your opponents ammo against you. Hasan fanbase is a marginal group of terminally online troglodytes and you don't have to appeal to them.
The only thing it does is give your opponents ammo against you. Hasan fanbase is a marginal group of terminally online troglodytes and you don't have to appeal to them.
October 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
lesson for progressive candidates who care about winning: don't let pieces of shit like Hasan anywhere near your orbit.
The only thing it does is give your opponents ammo against you. Hasan fanbase is a marginal group of terminally online troglodytes and you don't have to appeal to them.
The only thing it does is give your opponents ammo against you. Hasan fanbase is a marginal group of terminally online troglodytes and you don't have to appeal to them.
i love the poppy field mission in stalker 2. may be the only time a game made me feel actually quite emotional. the poppy field harbors echoes of the past - you can hear Mityay's family. and let me tell you, as a child of refugees, that shit hits like a ton of bricks, especially in ukrainian dub.
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
i love the poppy field mission in stalker 2. may be the only time a game made me feel actually quite emotional. the poppy field harbors echoes of the past - you can hear Mityay's family. and let me tell you, as a child of refugees, that shit hits like a ton of bricks, especially in ukrainian dub.
oh no
There are linked in posts about 6-7
There are linked in posts about 6-7
October 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
oh no
There are linked in posts about 6-7
There are linked in posts about 6-7
another day another reminder that dynamic linkers are hell.
a linux .so loads and calls vk entrypoints in a function
a linux program calls the above-mentioned .so
if the program uses `dlopen` to work with the .so, all good.
if it links against it - immediate crash.
and the fix is...
a linux .so loads and calls vk entrypoints in a function
a linux program calls the above-mentioned .so
if the program uses `dlopen` to work with the .so, all good.
if it links against it - immediate crash.
and the fix is...
October 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
another day another reminder that dynamic linkers are hell.
a linux .so loads and calls vk entrypoints in a function
a linux program calls the above-mentioned .so
if the program uses `dlopen` to work with the .so, all good.
if it links against it - immediate crash.
and the fix is...
a linux .so loads and calls vk entrypoints in a function
a linux program calls the above-mentioned .so
if the program uses `dlopen` to work with the .so, all good.
if it links against it - immediate crash.
and the fix is...
10/10 you can finally play guitar while sitting around the campfire with your fellow stalkers.
October 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
10/10 you can finally play guitar while sitting around the campfire with your fellow stalkers.
update: moved to nvidia texture tools. once you get past the account barrier, it actually has an ergonomic api and docs that people somewhat care about.
when you find typos like this in a library you're using, do you keep using it?
(rhetorical question, I'm not writing my own bc7 encoder)
(rhetorical question, I'm not writing my own bc7 encoder)
October 9, 2025 at 7:06 AM
update: moved to nvidia texture tools. once you get past the account barrier, it actually has an ergonomic api and docs that people somewhat care about.
