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I haven’t been bothered by aliasing yet, playing the 40hz quality mode. Haven’t tried KCD2!

Screenshot of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, showing bright green dense foliage in a sunny outdoor scene.

Screenshot of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, showing bright green dense foliage in a sunny outdoor scene.

Screenshot of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, showing indoor scene with realistic lighting.

Screenshot of Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, showing bright green dense foliage in a sunny outdoor scene.

The Avatar game looks incredible, such dense foliage and gorgeous lighting.

Oh great! Ok in that case what’s happening in your issue is that it’s only sampling one of the textures, and which one is chosen depends on where the wave starts.

I bet if you put a more obvious test-texture you’d see that the “corrupt” parts are actually just the left side of the first texture.

(Based on the mastodon follow up I suspect this extension will fix your more-than-two-tiles issue)

Sorry, not very familiar with Vulkan, but yeah I think the equivalent would be doing:

texture(Tex[nonuniformEXT(index)])

Based on this: docs.vulkan.org/samples/late...

If you can’t use the extension you could also try just sampling both textures, and then choosing afterwards which one to use.

How are you sampling the textures? Almost looks like a missing NonUniformResourceIndex() if you’re dynamically choosing the texture in the pixel shader.

Particularly happy with the bottom-left book which spends 80% on vector graphics and then a small final chapter on doing graphics for the fancy new “raster” displays.

Several years next to a used-bookstore has led to this, largely unread, stack:

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A @digitalfoundry.bsky.social callout in GPU Zen 4 :D

Is this your admission of being a secret Canadian?!

TV showing a game with a cartoon frog standing in the desert, the game is Big Hops.

Finally hooked laptop up to the TV so I can try @luckshotgames.com Big Hops properly! Great game so far!

Looking toward to trying @fabraz.bsky.social Demon Tides also, big year for 3D platformers!

My muscle memory isn’t even the default anymore… I still use right-click select cuz that was the default like 15 years ago :D

Visual Studio has “chords” like this, where you hit a few keys in a row (ctrl-k-o to swap between header and cpp).

Also I think blender does use “s x” to scale on the x-axis? Always found that really intuitive.

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Wonderful game Jane! Just replayed it for the first time since it came out and loved it again :)

speaking of cool cheap effects: the shadow from the ceiling fan in Robo Recall is not a real shadow or even a light function or even a decal, it's a rotating translucent mesh

Nanite Tessellation Nanite Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Tessellation, aka Nanite Dynamic Displacement was the next major feature I worked on after Nanite it...

I'm finally writing up how Nanite Tessellation works. The first few blogs posts are up. More will be coming.
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Thanks!! :D Excited to get to work more closely with the game studios, and more “graphics” code vs. systems/drivers.

Officially started at Xbox ATG today, and my title has updated to “Senior GRAPHICS Software Engineer”, which is clearly better than a regular senior software engineer :P

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Flying through a bit of the first level of Keeper, directly in UE Editor. It's really important that editor view match the game as much as possible for faster iteration.

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Really fantastic visualizations here @miketuritzin.bsky.social! Love seeing this level of debug tooling.

Also iirc a lot of important work done for this got merged back to open source branches, like the D3D12 support (somewhat) required for an Xbox port to work.

As in stopped operating? Or made it closed-source? I think their argument was it has to be closed source to work within console NDAs (I do not know if this is true or not, but it wouldn’t be surprising).

Ah yeah, though maybe to be clear “Some Guy” here is the creator of Godot, so it’s probably “as official” as a for-profit spinoff can be. Iirc theres other for-profit ports by third parties, but this is the only one with at least a tangential connection to the main foundation?