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

I think I found an exit to a bonus level

Hey look, a revolutionary concept: Liquid in a Glass!

While removing this 2000 lines of code, I learned that Blender has a "FELINE" texture sampling filter, which unfortunately has nothing to do with 😻 and just means "fast elliptical lines". Anyway, it is now gone since it was unused for years. https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/pulls/139978

@vaidas Ah, just like -funsafe-math-optimizations are fun & safe, right :)

@jimk fun fact: first Unity office in Lithuania (2008?) was the same building/corridor where they shot Chernobyl KGB interrogation cells

…it was not a fancy location :)

There’s a new :godot: statue in town (it is actually called “Godot”)

Reminder that if corporations are people, the reverse can also be true. You can just pretend to be a corporation, and do practical jokes like donate to #blender :blender: fund or something.

I’m told this is how you ship things

How does Blender build/test farm do windows arm64 devices? Why yes, you just put a bunch of laptops into a rack, with 3d printed custom holders for them. As one does :)

"Senior Engineer tries Vibe Coding" is excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2C2CNmK7dQ

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: