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Ahh! All I can see is that after line 10 everything is going to be a space out of alignment and now my brain itches…

Particle System Audioviz Test YouTube video by Abandon Window

Working on the guts of the Visibyl particle system! Here's a demo of the most recent change: modulate _any_ of the system parameters with either an audio signal or an LFO-style modulator...

Music: EASE UP by the amazing EPROM
youtu.be/isF8WrKfwS4

Now *that* is a fun idea for a shader!

I use this pattern at runtime to update module state in a hot path for my particle system and have not had any performance issues!

I have literally no idea where that weird link came from! Sorry!

I think this is a totally valid point. The trouble specifically with ARC Raiders, though, is that if there was a choice between pvp and pve modes the demographic of pvp would be altered. I think to the point where, for many players, the value of the game would likely actually change.

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They are starting to appear on the market so I guess it’s only a matter of time (nuphy.com/collections/...). I have an HE keeb and played around in qmk trying to make a midi mpe controller with it. You’re right though, very different to a standard synth or drum pad but interesting nonetheless!

Have you considered hall effect/tmr keys on the keyboard? Those can be set up for velocity sensitivity and double as regular keys!

Love that game! Had it on the ST and seem to remember that it was on 4 disks that you had to constantly swap 🤣

Volumetric Shadows for the Particle System YouTube video by Abandon Window

Been a while since I posted but I got custom volumetric shadows working with our particle system today and I'm pretty pleased with the results (posting the YouTube version because particles and Bluesky compression aren't friends...): www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgCW...

100% this!

…you’re gonna have a really hard time keeping that cool. Most radiators in space try really hard to avoid collecting energy. I’m not saying it isn’t possible to cool something in a vacuum, just that it’s not trivial!

True, objects will radiate heat without the need for conduction or convection. The trouble is that heat dissipation through what is essentially black body radiation is massively inefficient compared to conduction through another material. If you have a body continually producing heat…

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The problem is that this heat literally has nowhere to radiate to though. Heat transfer in vacuum is a really hard problem to solve. A satellite generates very little heat, so you can vent it as gas/liquid as it condenses. A datacentre on the other hand…

I mean, yeah, he’s crazy. But the thing I really don’t understand is the “datacenters on the moon” bit. I mean, the whole problem with these is cooling… how do you do that in zero atmosphere??

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Haha, ain’t no amount of money that would be worth me selling 19 years worth of games! 😆

A screen grab of a Steam “19 Years of Service” badge

lol @steampowered.com for asking me to prove I’m over 18 **when my literal account is** 🤦

“I want this transparent thing to appear in front of this transparent thing” is my personal favourite…

Haha, I’m British so also don’t know! We just call it coriander here…

So, what, Americans call the leaves cilantro and the seeds of the same plant coriander?? That’s wild! 😄

Out of interest, what do you call the seeds? Are they cilantro seeds too? Or do they get to be coriander?

A photo of a tree trunk with a hollow in the very centre. Someone has added a pair of googly eyes above the hollow to make it look like a face

A photo of a tree trunk with a hollow in the very centre. Someone has added a pair of googly eyes above the hollow to make it look like a face

A photo of a two tree trunks. Someone has added a pair of googly eyes above the hollow to make it look like a face

Someone has been making my day on my morning dog walks lately! Thanks mystery person!

I use Nobara for both gaming and dev. Definitely my favourite distro so far!

GitHub - sandrofigo/VoxReader: A C# library to read .vox files created with MagicaVoxel A C# library to read .vox files created with MagicaVoxel - sandrofigo/VoxReader

I’ve used Magicavoxel in the past and found it to be great. There are .vox importers for Unity (and Godot I think) that let you pull out the raw indices as an array. The .vox format is also pretty open: here’s a vox reader for c# that should do what you need: github.com/sandrofigo/V...

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This is so cool!

Copilot to help relieve RSI caused by typing the code you’re writing. I personally run a distilled llm on my local machine and compared to standard autocomplete it’s incomparable. I definitely don’t have an llm “code for me” and the vast majority of devs that use things like copilot don’t either!

No. I’m saying that copilot is used by a large number of developers in the industry, as a tool that essentially works to autocomplete *your* code as you write it. I’m also saying that there is a big difference between having an llm generate code for you (a la Cursor) and using…