Ben Golus⚠️⭕ @bgolus Twitter profile

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

2 years

I was talking to my Dad about flight delays and staffing issues, and my dad pointed out a problem I'd missed entirely. There are no new pilots.

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4 months

I have a theory about why Steam is so much more performant than Epic Games Studio, or other online store apps. And it’s not just that Steam was written from scratch vs being an Electron app or literally an Unreal Engine app. Or because it’s much older and had to run on old PCs.

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2 years

Basically, airlines are fucked in the next decade, because there won't be enough pilots left in the world unless they bite the bullet and start paying to train new pilots themselves. Something they absolutely don't want to do because it's expensive!

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2 years

When the pandemic hit, passenger airlines in the US laid off all their pilots. If those pilots were within 5, maybe 10 years of retiring, they mostly decided to retire early. Fast forward to now and the airlines are trying to hire back all those pilots, who are responding 🖕

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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2 years

The other way is via the military. The vast majority of airline pilots in the US are ex navy or air force. But there's the big problem. The military isn't training many aircraft pilots anymore, they're training drone pilots.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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2 years

And thus, the pool of new pilots has disappeared. This happened a while ago, but it hadn't yet become a big problem for airlines because their (aging) pilot workforces were flying for longer. But they just laid off all those older pilots, and they aren't coming back.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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2 years

So they're trying to hire new pilots instead. But there's a problem with that. There's no such thing as "new pilots" that you can just hire.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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4 months

TLDR: I think Steam runs so well because Valve devs wanted to stop their family & friends from complaining when they had access to stupidly large game libraries, and those optimizations trickled down to making it better for everyone.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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2 years

Drone pilots never leave the ground, and as such any "flight time" they might have doesn't count towards that 1500 hour requirement. Just like simulator training doesn't count.

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4 months

So they ended up optimizing Steam well enough to still be used when you have 50k games in your library. Which of course will make everyone else with less than that run better too.

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4 months

In the early days of Steam, Valve employees could get a special key for their accounts that unlocked access to all games on the platform. And not just all Valve games, _all_ games.

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4 months

This is also Valve where there’s no strict hierarchy. So if you wanted one of these keys, you just got one. Or two, or as many as you wanted. So they ended up being something of a perk for employees. And their families. And their friends. And friendly non Valve devs… etc.

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1 year

An interesting Game Dev Fact for tech artists out there. Infamous: Second Son is perhaps best remembered for its incredible and varied particle effects. It only had one particle shader, with no variants. All transparent particles were rendered in a single draw.

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4 months

Why does any of that matter? Because they were handing out those keys for way longer than you might think. And because Steam has tens of thousands of games. And because the library view defaults to showing all games you have access to, not just those installed.

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4 months

AFAIK they are much more strict about who gets these today, and I think I’ve heard some non current employees mention their access has been revoked. And even some current employees if they’re not actively working on Steam.

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4 months

And while it’s easy to ignore customers complaining about things… if they still spend money, who cares… but family or close friends, they’re going to really pester you about things like this. Even if it’s for a use case no normal person will ever experience.

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4 months

As a dev it can be easy to ignore things like that. Often dev stuff is slow and you get numb to it. There’s also filtering options. But family and friends were using it too, and they’re going to complain.

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4 months

Short version: Hardware modding the original Xbox to have 128GB of RAM allows Halo 2 to run at 720p. Fun fact, original Xbox dev kits had 128GB of RAM, which led many devs to accidentally assume the retail version would too, and had to make cuts to ship.

Determined modder gets 'Halo 2' running at 720p on the original Xbox — after tweaks to the console...

Who needs a Master Chief Collection, anyway?

www.tomshardware.com

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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11 months

BREAKING NEWS: Unity announces they're walking back the previously announced plan to charge devs per game install. However a new pricing model has been announced. Devs now pay $1 per-save, both in editor and by users.

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1 year

#VFXTips

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9 months

Conversations about framerate and the human eye are always so rough, because lots of people are absolutely convinced they know the correct answer. The usual "rebuttals" to @FreyaHolmer 's example here of "but this is a 60hz video" are extra hilarious because they prove her point

Freya Holmér

@FreyaHolmer

9 months

ok so - the human eye can absolutely tell the difference in framerates beyond 60 Hz can we please stop the "the eye can only see in 60 fps" nonsense now

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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6 years

We shipped Planetary Annihilation on Win, Mac, and Linux. Linux uses we're a big vocal part of the Kickstarter and forums. In the end they accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets (most gfx driver related). Would totally skip Linux.

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1 year

Some people say Phillips is good enough, others exclaim the virtues of Torx, and others argue Robinson is vastly superior to all others. Me personally? I like the friction ball drive type. Guaranteed to never strip!

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6 months

Brand new laptop with fresh install of Windows. A few days later, open it up and copilot button shows up on task bar. Remove it. A few days later, open it up, copilot is back, now to the right of the notifications. Remove it.

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3 months

Ooo! Update to PowerToys! *reads update notes* "New utility: Advanced Paste, an AI powered tool..." Well, at least I can just not use it... "Paste as Plain Text was removed as a separate utility, since its functionality is now part of the Advanced Paste utility." Nope. Im out

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10 months

Anyone need an infinitely zoomable grid for Unity or Unreal? Because I accidentally made one.

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1 year

One of the hardest things to do in modern game dev is make players notice things they’re supposed to notice. In the past we often had the “problem” that dynamic objects rendered differently than static ones. Which was the case for RE4. That got “fixed” in the new version.

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10 months

Unity graphics dev article: “To pull off this effect is complicated…” *two paragraphs followed by download links to a c# and shader file that do it all* Unreal graphics dev article: “Luckily this is easy to do, first…” *10 pages of text explaining required boilerplate*

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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2 years

This is Epic's official documentation for how to move installed games to a different directory.

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4 months

Damn it, 128MB, not GB.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

2 years

Nvidia RTX 4090 TI-84

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1 year

So with GPUs now able to read directly from the SSD, and allowing shaders to spawn shaders, what's the ETA on games being 100% run on the GPU and the CPU only existing to ferry user input and networking data around?

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5 years

Ever wonder why baked normal maps just don't look quite right in Unity? I did, so I decided to find out why.

Generating Perfect Normal Maps for Unity

Every idea needs a Medium

link.medium.com

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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2 years

Here's an actually decent chromatic aberration UE4 Material for objects in the scene.

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1 year

I just want to say all the hot people posting to #WhatAGameDevLooksLike … many of us are much uglier.

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1 year

As a graphics programmer, I cannot understate how important this title was for the games industry as a whole. It's a travesty we'll likely never get an official PC release of this game. Especially since my understanding is it already ran on PCs for dev.

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1 year

Remember The Order: 1886? It's a visually stunning vintage 2015 PS4 game that still looks great today. @dark1x revisits Ready at Dawn's work, plus we've got footage of the game running at 60fps on PlayStation 5:

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4 months

@BrieFlory It does appear to be CEF based. But somehow it's not 300MB like every other CEF / Electron application..

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3 years

A quick explanation for why this happened, from a technical side. With 2D animation, the artist has complete control over every frame. Limitations are resolution, frame count, and color palette. But late era 2D games like KoF XIII those were mostly gone.

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3 years

Been thinking a lot lately on how when we moved from 2D to 3D we lost high-frequency motion WITHIN silhouettes due to skinned meshes. Hope to see this rectified via cloth/muscles this generation rather than just on secondary like cloaks etc. Image source:

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11 months

@ploogle They're walking back the announced charge per save. New pricing model announced. Devs pay with their first born children.* (*note: the child counter resets every 12 months.)

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4 years

Ever wanted really wide, clean silhouette outlines in your game? I did, and I spent a lot of time trying to do it the "wrong" way so you don't have to.

The Quest for Very Wide Outlines

An Exploration of GPU Silhouette Rendering

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

9 months

There's one thing that's always boggled my mind. The official PSD file plugin Adobe makes people use. It's been broken for over 20 years now and as far as I can tell intentionally so. It fades transparent pixels to white. Here's a PSD imported into Unreal.

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10 months

The Best Darn Grid Shader (Yet)

For as long as I’ve been writing shaders, there’s been one specific shader I’ve always tried to write…

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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4 years

The common wisdom of "don't use conditionals in shaders" is one of my biggest frustrations with how shaders are taught. step(y, x) _is_ a conditional! It compiles to identical code as: float val = (x >= y ? 1.0 : 0.0) or float val = 0.0; if (x >= y) val = 1.0;

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4 years

SHADER BASICS 4 STEP AND SMOOTHSTEP As I mentioned, having conditionals in shader is usually frowned upon, so "step" and "smoothstep" come in to save the day by giving you a whole lot of flexibility in that regard! #shaders #shaderbasics

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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3 years

Fun fact, the infamous Sony Playstation 2 Development Tool, which while much larger shared a lot of design elements with the consumer Playstation 2, are both based off of their now demolished Sony Playstation Tool building in the Ginza district of Tokyo, Japan.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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5 years

Just over a year since my last article on graphics programming. I guess it's about time to post another. Sharper Mipmapping using Shader Based Supersampling

Sharper Mipmapping using Shader Based Supersampling

Mipmapping is ubiquitous in real time rendering, but has limitations. This article is going to go into what mipmapping is, how it’s used…

link.medium.com

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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2 years

Hi-Fi Rush is an excellent example of how strong art direction can beat rendering technic novelty. There’s nothing being done in Hi-Fi Rush that couldn’t have been done one, or even two console generations ago. Apart from the high triangle counts on characters at least.

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2 years

Comments about the GTA6 leaks are painful to read… … because gamers just have no idea how game dev works. Games look like shit before they’re shown off to the public. Sometimes when they’re shown off, the parts that are shown off are literally the only parts that look good.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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6 months

@dark1x That’s definitely neutral evil on the real time reflection alignment chart.

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6 months

Open up Edge. Browser has re-enabled the side bar, and Copilot has been added to it. Hide side bar. When side bar is hidden, Copilot gets added to the top bar. Seriously, fuck off!

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5 months

With GDC starting tomorrow, I wanted to tell people about the best GDC talk ever. There was a talk on how they created the world textures for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The room was packed. The presenter took the podium and said…

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3 years

First person guns is one of those things where there is no perfect solution. All "solutions" are really different hacks with different pros and cons. I feel like this would be a great topic to do a long form article on to discuss the problem, and the different work arounds.

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Creating an FPS? It's a good idea to render the weapon on a secondary camera, that way you can lower the FOV and it'll never clip through walls! Need weapons? I got pretty cool stylized blasters here: (public domain, free to use) #unitytips @KenneyNL

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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11 months

Gamers complaining about how horribly Starfield is optimized on PC really don't know what they're talking about. So I, as a long time game dev, want to set the record straight. Starfield is very well optimized with the intention of running at only 30fps on all platforms.

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2 years

The answer to solving the problem of sexual orientation is too use sexual quaternions. Unfortunately no one understands them.

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2 years

@NilaJones3 I'm sure they're a factor, but it's a smaller factor than everything else in this case. The lack of new pilots issue is one that's been going on since well before COVID.

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10 months

Average person: "Wow, Alan Wake 2 looks amazing!" Me:

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@bgolus

2 years

One thing that bugs me about 99% of the post process outline shader examples out there, including several paid ones, is almost no one takes into account the current pixel normal when checking the depth. This is a big differentiator between hobby outlines and AAA outlines.

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1 year

Abusing sprites to be cheap, diffuse only lights is a great trick. One I've seen used back as early as the X360 days. But I wanted to note there are some nearly free tweaks to the technique presented below that can make the effect much easier to use.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

11 months

Damn... RIP Volition. Embracer Group hoovered up ever dev studio in the games industry they could, seemingly in a bid to inflate their worth and garner favor with investors, which didn't happen. This wasn't the first domino to fall, and probably won't be the last.

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Volition Games is closing, effective immediately

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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7 months

@rghmf @_uncoolniece As someone from the US, I also have no idea what they’re talking about. Dollar coins are uncommon here as we also have 1 dollar bills. But I’ve never had an issue spending them when necessary. Some dollar coins are especially collectible because they’re uncommon.

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3 years

Bad Rendering Pun Meme

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@bgolus

1 year

Since a number of people have asked "why is this game important?" I thought I'd post a short explanation. First I'll say the video does a pretty good job of saying why, but I'll add some more context.

Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

1 year

As a graphics programmer, I cannot understate how important this title was for the games industry as a whole. It's a travesty we'll likely never get an official PC release of this game. Especially since my understanding is it already ran on PCs for dev.

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3 years

A very useful and cheap technique for getting fake lighting on 3D meshes is the good old Matcap technique. The basic implementation is to take the view space normals and use the x and y values remapped from -1 .. +1 to 0 .. 1.0. But they have a problem with perspective cameras.

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5 months

“Last night I was informed by legal that the contents of this talk are now considered trade secrets. Thank you. Any questions?” And then answered every question with the sentance they used to start the talk.

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1 year

It relied entirely on dynamic branches in a giant über particle material. Why would they do this? For sorting. They used compute shaders to generate and update the particle position and display data in one giant list, and then they just had to sort that one list.

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1 year

@TMaloteaux Have you never heard of this type of screw before? You'll find them in any workshop. For some reason people usually store them on the ground next to trash cans.

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11 months

This wasn't the first time this happened, wasn't the last either. The number of times some poor "porting house" is told to take some existing game make a version w/o DRM or for another platform and are just sent an original retail copy of the game is a number much larger than 1.

ThunderOwl - Sci-Fi Assets. Owlified. 🇱🇻🇺🇦🌞

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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9 months

Yes. The video is only 60hz, yet you can clearly see that the 120 and 480 examples are smoother. It doesn't actually matter what "framerate" your eye sees at, because you can see framerates higher than that, just like the above video can represent framerates higher than it is.

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1 year

To be clear. I don’t mean one draw per emitter, or type of particle. I mean _all_ particles. If you’re someone who’s used to using Unity or Unreal, every single particle used one shared material. All the different textures, all the different rendering modes, all one shader.

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11 months

Unity should sell off the game engine part of their business to someone who'll actually listen to devs and maintain a game engine. Maybe Microsoft? Or Autodesk? Blender Foundation? Criterion? Gamebase? GarageGames? CD Projekt Red? Z-Axis?

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3 months

I only use two tools in PowerToys, Fancy Zones and Paste as Plain Text. And Advanced Paste requires an OpenAI account to even use. So, fuck that.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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10 months

I think I finally have a procedural grid shader I'm happy with. Zero aliasing, and in my eyes significantly better looking than an implementation that could previously be considered closest to "ground truth", a filtered pulsetrain or super sampled texture.

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1 year

Some argue it's hard to get a lot of torque on this type, but that's the beauty of it! It's impossible to over tighten!

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@bgolus

6 months

If you look online it’s clear Copilot used to actually give very clear instructions as to exactly how to disable and completely remove Copilot from windows. One of the posts on Microsoft Answers is a copy/pasta of that response. So someone clearly “fixed” it.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

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2 years

At some point, I need to do a write up of how I handle volumetric particle fx. This is using a simple Niagara particle system and a fairly inexpensive material that significantly improves interactions between particles and objects in the world.

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3 years

I implemented a couple of different approaches to reconstruct normals from a depth texture. No separate script dependencies, and works for Unity's built in and URP as a post process or on world objects.

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4 months

@Idonbelonghere Still faster than EGS.😛

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10 months

“And now we’re ready to add the effect, which I’ll cover in part 2!” *post marked 8 years ago with no follow up*

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6 months

On a funny side note, before I turned it off there I asked Copilot how to uninstall Copilot. It just gave a terse response of “I’m sorry you want to uninstall me, I’m just here to help answer any of your questions!” Then showed a button asking if I agreed with the tos.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

2 years

I do hope someday Epic becomes profitable enough to hire a few more people to help out. I know they’re quite understaffed.

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@bgolus

6 months

And, for those worried, I don’t use Edge, but the family members who use that laptop do.

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@bgolus

4 years

@lunasorcery Decided to remake this in Unity for fun.

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@bgolus

4 months

It's not uncommon for dev kits to have more RAM than retail hardware, as it makes dev much easier if you can debug issues instead of just hard crashing when you run over.

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Not to mention there just weren’t that many objects around except those that could be destroyed. So everyone complaining that “the original RE4 didn’t need this” is misremembering that it didn’t need it because those objects where super obvious in other ways.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

5 months

Minor note of clarification; Steam is not free. Steam has a monopoly in part because they do offer as much as they do to both consumers and devs such that they've kept ahead of competitors when it comes to reducing friction. And are generally "the good guys". But...

[archer]

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5 months

i think its ok for steam to have a monopoly on the pc gaming market because they actually provide a good and extremely feature rich experience for free, while the epic launcher can barely load the store page

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@bgolus

4 years

low poly box (1 traingle)

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low poly box (6 triangles)

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6 months

It also gave me some “helpful” suggestions for what to ask next, like “What? I would never want to uninstall Copilot!” And “Thank you copilot, that was very helpful.” I closed Copilot at that point and disabled it.

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6 months

In the early days of the internet, there was a quite serious exploit for Windows that’d let people take complete control of a PC via WinPopup. Some anonymous person immediately took advantage of this exploit and hacked nearly every internet connected PC… to patch the exploit.

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@bgolus

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Felt somehow wrong that as far as I could tell no one had made one of these yet. So I did.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

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“Normal Mapping for a Triplanar Shader”

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

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It’s a big problem for modern games. We keep pushing the amount of detail in games, and it’s making them harder to play games because of it. So nearly every modern game has glows, or a special view mode, etc. that effectively simplifies the world to highlight the important items.

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@bgolus

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@damianGray Current version of Steam is a full rewrite using web stuff. Not the old fully custom app.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

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I want to comment on this, because it’s very misleading. And I’m not even going to go into the main article. There are three tools presented to “help reduce vram”. Let’s go over them real quick.

Ray

@iamRayy_

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Free dev tools by NVIDIA to help game devs reduce VRAM usage in their games:

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

3 years

Normal people discovering the horrors of NaN propagation.

Supper Mario Broth

@MarioBrothBlog

3 years

In Super Mario Odyssey, if the Snapshot Mode is activated on the same frame the B button is released while capturing an Uproot, the Uproot will become visually glitched. Over time, it will create areas of corrupted black pixelated space within itself.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

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I just published “Anti-aliased Alpha Test: The Esoteric Alpha To Coverage”

Anti-aliased Alpha Test: The Esoteric Alpha To Coverage

Aliasing is the bane of VR. We have several tools we use to try to remove, or at least reduce aliasing in real time graphics today. Tools…

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

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This video's graphic of how to think about data being passed from the CPU to the GPU is excellent.

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@bgolus

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So the original version of RE4, any object that could be destroyed would be much brighter than objects that couldn’t be, likely because they used the dynamic lighting system instead of the baked lighting.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

2 years

Yesterday I tweeted about a technique I like to use, flipbooks on trails. Here's an example of what that looks like.

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Ben Golus⚠️⭕

@bgolus

2 years

As someone who worked on Beast Rider, it should have been rated N for Nobody.

Penny Arcade

@PA_Megacorp

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Would you like to know more about the history of this classic Penny Arcade strip? @cwgabriel and @TychoBrahe have you covered in the latest episode of Penny For Your Thoughts, available exclusively on #ClubPA !

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