Notices by Aras Pranckevičius (aras@mastodon.gamedev.place)

Majestic floof being majestic

Ok, now actually watched Flow (previously I only saw trailer, and the Blender conference talk, etc). Very good!

It does feel very different from many “typical” animated films; let’s call them Disney/Pixar style. Flow to me is somewhat more similar to Miyazaki/Ghibli in the world building and overall strange/magical universe vibe.

Oh no, it is 1997

Benchmark

@yiningkarlli one lesson is: story and direction are more important than any of technical aspects. But this is not a new lesson :)

In other inconsequential news, Blender 4.4 no longer uses Boost. Majority of cases why Boost was needed came from other libraries (USD, OpenEXR, OpenVDB et al used to use Boost, not anymore), and the one place that Blender itself used Boost for ("locale" library for UI translation) got replaced by several hundred lines of just simple code.

Nature is healing!

A visual explanation how pointers work:

Ah yes, the four choices of city names: London, Paris, Poland and Banana.

I do wonder about that, relatively speaking, the world seemed like a stable and improving state for the duration of time when David Bowie was alive (1947-2016). Coincidence? I don’t think so.

Something I noticed while occasionally looking at https://www.pouet.net/ : we are entering a time when some demosceners are literally dying :( Over past few years, there's been quite some "XYZ has passed away" messages... On some level, it makes sense and is expected, but still is something "new" that the demoscene has to deal with. :demoscene:

@sinbad @TomF I think it strikes perfect balance of features that "any studio would want" vs "free users don't care about" (like 10/12 bit videos), so that the free version does not "eat into the revenue" of the paid version. Meanwhile, free version is great for anyone who's not making a "professional" film. It's a tricky balance! E.g. at Unity it was always a very unstable balancing act, which features should be in the free version.

Pace of improvements in Godot :godot: is impressive! https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-4-beta-1/

Also very much like that they have ability to summarize a release in human-understandable language that makes sense. For example Unity :unity: seemingly has lost that ability some years ago, and "so what is new in Unity 6.1?" is actually hard to answer.

This dog of #Mosstodon always has the same expression

@lanodan Something along the lines of: git log --author="Your Username" --since="1 year ago" --pretty=tformat: --numstat | awk '{added+=$1; removed+=$2} END {print "Added:", added, "Removed:", removed}'

@artificialmind absolutely! they should totally fire me! oh wait, I'm not employed by them, so they can't :)

Git says I've added 30 thousand, and removed 81 thousand lines of code in #blender over the past year. Not bad, I'll take it!

I must have misplaced my walk cycle animation file

Oh, turns out this :mastodon: instance (mastodon.gamedev.place) has been running for 7 years already. Not a terribly bad result! Here's what I wrote about it at the very start: https://aras-p.info/blog/2017/12/04/Gamedev-Mastodon-mastodon.gamedev.place/

@sinbad 9 this year, where do I get my prize? (though 14 last year... however 10 of those was a series so probably does not count)

Laptop updated from MBP M1 Max to M4 Max. Quick impression that CPU-based workloads I use (compilation, CPU heavy blender stuff) are about 2x faster, nice. Minor downside: whereas on M1 getting the fans to be audible was very rare, on M4 with all CPU cores up the fans do spin up sooner. Not as bad as Intel-based MBPs used to be, but still much more audible than M1.