JPEG compression + datamoshing
Had to perform the datamoshing separate from the initial reprojection so that blocks that cleared to new data would show the converged scene instead of just noisy data, so I'm basically reprojecting everything twice, which is silly but looks great!
Hardware Reviewer: "This GPU is ultimately great, but its lack of RGB really holds it back for modern users expecting it and will most likely only appeal to the vintage crowd."
Me:
what are you saying, does this thing not output color video
what
what the fuck
I called them out on their anti-consumer acts of intentionally providing false warranty contracts to customers & rejecting advertised warranty, which is illegal, and refused to provide any support until I brought up legal options, just so I could draw.
Don’t let
@wacom
forget.
crude lossy audio filter testing
will need to rework it entirely since this one is super discontinuous & clicky, but i wanted to see how stuff felt with the old unfinished filter i wrote last year tied with some dynamic parameters
Spread this around and feel free to message
@wacom
about this as well. This is the kind of behavior that we should not allow to thrive as a business, nor allow to sell to artists who they absolutely will continue to exploit and simply block when they demand their rights like me.
A lot of people were very curious how the lossy datamosh effect was done in my latest gamedev prototype, so I decided to make this breakdown.
Everything is rendered in realtime in
#unity3d
using custom post processing shaders & a custom DXR (raytrace) setup.
#madewithunity
Oh cool, I just got word from
@wacom
that the warranty documentation they provide on their website for my Cintiq model is inaccurate and that my tablet is actually out of warranty according to some document they can’t provide and will cost $400 to repair manufacturing defects
🙂
finally got a package back from
@Wacom
after they broke my Cintiq 13HD in a prior repair without testing (a model I specifically went way out of my way to obtain)
They did not tell me they’d toss my 13HD for a Cintiq Pro that lacks any of the features I needed.
I am devastated.
After finally being sent the correct product but with the same backlight problems as the model I initially sent in for servicing,
@Wacom
blocked me and prevented me from requesting the initial service I was seeking over 7 months ago.
Their advertised warranty expires next month.
Oh cool, I just got word from
@wacom
that the warranty documentation they provide on their website for my Cintiq model is inaccurate and that my tablet is actually out of warranty according to some document they can’t provide and will cost $400 to repair manufacturing defects
🙂
I'm super grateful for all the support & stories people are bringing up about
@wacom
's illegitimate customer services they claim to sell/provide. Don't let them continue taking advantage of customers, keep sharing this stuff and let the industry know what Wacom does!
As for other tablets, I do own an iPad Pro and a Huion Kamvas 22 Plus, both extremely good!
Nothing quite beats the old Wacom spring nib feel (hell, even new Wacom tablets don't support it), but aside from that, at least the other options don't have
@wacom
's abysmal support.
losing my mind at how many people are angry at me for “misunderstanding my warranty and taking it out on the Twitter guy running
@Wacom
”
dawg if I’m misunderstanding it then why can’t Wacom link me to the refurbished warranty papers even when I ask repeatedly for 6 months?
everyone talking about lights should be shocked to learn that RGB means red green blue not light emitting diode
also that color displays are made up of red green & blue elements, so RGB buffers are needed
just a little esoteric graphics programmer tip from me 2 u, now u know :>
update: they’ve unblocked me
they still haven’t made the refurbished warranty available to owners directed to the warranty documentation
and they’ve still strung me along for 6 months without providing a fully repaired product
idk what they plan on but they have a lot to fix
The issue isn’t even “wehhh I want my tablet fixed” as much as it’s “I want the refurbished warranty contract that Wacom is using internally to be made available to refurbished customers so that support can’t mislead customers towards the wrong warranty contract like they do now”
awful fucking news y'all: i tried it again & specified the language this time instead of relying on the language detection capabilities, and it returned... this.
was curious about making billboard elements with pseudo rotation via scrolling textures (based on the atan2 of the normalized difference between camera position and object origin) and slapped this test together recently.
actually turned out to be pretty dang cool!
#madewithunity
and all that aside, how does that justify straight up blocking a customer who was in touch with the support staff who agreed to provide services due to such grievances over unreasonably obfuscated legal information?
what kind of corporation blocks a customer they’re talking to?
In the
@Ubisoft
published game
@Rainbow6Game
, there is a texture that bares extreme resemblance to one that I published 11 years ago, one with a noncommercial license, used for a common in-game visual effect.
The game is still sold with this texture.
Take it for what you will.
I’ve known Wacom to do scummy stuff before, mostly in regards to pricing and marketing their products, but I genuinely never expected warranty-fraud levels of scummy from them.
Another fun aesthetic to explore (although offering significantly diminishing returns for perceived fidelity compared to the NTSC route): JPEG compression
If I did implement a proper denoiser, this could probably have potential, though it is already quite expensive as is.
hey, uh, I don't mean to be that guy, but is that my texture that I published with a specifically attribution-noncommercial creative commons license being used specifically for commercial purposes with zero attributions by a company who's far wealthier than me???
@weatherchannel
Speaking of tornadoes... TWC is going to produce a “tornado” in our studio Wednesday morning on
@AMHQ
One of the cooler things I’ve done in my over 30 years here.
Also here’s the moment I saw it live on stream.
People were saying the meshes were bad, but I had doubts and thought people may have been blowing out out of proportion, and then I was swiftly & aggressively proven wrong.
[For some reason, many people did not pick up on the joke in the initial tweet and feel the need to tell me RGB stands for “Rlight Gemitting Bdiode”.
I do not envy your lack of whimsy & acceptance of that definition when talking about GPUs, a thing that processes RGB buffers.]
If you like glitch art, you should play my free 2 minute web horror game that I recently released!
It’s only two minutes and has no jumpscares, and it runs entirely in your browser! Did I mention it’s free?
(the “RGB buffers needed” bit was a lie, you can totally just encode colors with horizontal modulation across a single channel but it will reduce your horizontal resolution.)
apparently they fail to provide this information anywhere in the support section of their website, which is the only space they point you to for warranty information.
I’ve yet to find any documentation stating this outside of shop pages for some of the other refurbished models
I regret letting my curiosity get the better of me and trying this for myself with a slightly worse prompt: 'will smith eating a spaghetti monster'.
I do not sleep anymore. "It" won't let me.
finally got a package back from
@Wacom
after they broke my Cintiq 13HD in a prior repair without testing (a model I specifically went way out of my way to obtain)
They did not tell me they’d toss my 13HD for a Cintiq Pro that lacks any of the features I needed.
I am devastated.
maybe not a very good one in terms of shitpost, but that time i decided to port 8800 blue lick road to vrchat as an exercise in GPU dumping, text parsing, & mesh generation is def up there for me
(and also because if anyone was gonna do it it right & early it was gonna be me)
honestly pretty fucking gutted about this. refurbished warranty information is not available anywhere on their website for products they no longer sell, and they make no distinction about refurbished products carrying a different unspoken warranty in any documents made available.
And to think if I had just sent out my tablet when I originally wrote up my claim back in March I would’ve been totally fine, but no, I had to put my faith in their documentation and think I had a warranty.
@Wacom
this is extremely poor behavior, hiding terms away from support.
After some thorough snooping, I've managed to find the only mention of a refurbished-specific warranty on Wacom's website, which is only provided on the purchase page for a completely different refurbished product.
😬😬😬😬😬😬😬
@wacom
This is extraordinarily scummy.
update on wacom scenario: I emailed them again and again about how they made it impossible for customers to view their warranty terms after they decide to stop hosting a store page, & as soon as I brought up the words “small claims court” they offered to repair for free
:)bitchn
@PepperminTea327
From the looks of things, the patterns of tris are indicitive of just a normal subdivision modifier. I think they may have not known how one can use smoothed normals over tris with shared vertices to produce smooth surfaces & tried to do it with brute force complexity instead.
considering the shadow rendering and the polygonal nature of some of the outer loops, i’m very surprised people seem to keep arguing it’s an elaborate photoshop photo manip as opposed to a far less laborious 3D render???
also hello i make games & shaders
@pretztails
I work cleaner on my games that I finish in about a quarter of the time they spend on these, as a single person
but then again I don’t try to bank lackluster work off of the engagement of children & I tend to focus on my games before merch so maybe that’s where I’m going wrong
Messaged support back about where this information would have ever been available to me and have since stopped receiving replies.
Please update your support site to include information on refurbished products if you're going to treat them differently. This is ridiculous.
@wacom
so... kids may be force-fed a false narrative about the country and how it got to where it is, rather than learn about their country in an objective manner and think critically for their future, thanks to this order.
we literally live in a deeply fascist state now, please stop.
Forcing customers to rely exclusively on the store pages of unrelated products to get information that Wacom fails to acknowledge anywhere within their Support section or even from original sales records is incredibly unreasonable behavior.
@wacom
Video showing off my JPEG (DCT compression & decompression) GrabPass shader in VR on
@VRChat
.
I ramble a little about where it’s at and what I gotta fix, but it’s looking promising!
Three hours since the last response, I finally get another reply where they... link to an unrelated page of another refurbished product for sale which states this warranty term which, I hate to repeat myself but, is entirely NOT provided to owners of the product I bought.
@wacom
finally got my tablet back from
@wacom
repair. Was hoping for this nightmare to be over, but no, check out this massive scratch from a faulty nib, untouched & unmentioned by the repair team, both before and after, despite my inquiries
I don’t know why I even bother anymore...