Due to various reasons, I’ve had to work with Unreal Engine 4.Since my main development environment is Linux, the quality was amazingly fantastic but there were a few rough edges. Since Wiki editing is currently disabled, I am posting it here to improve quality of life for Linux devs having […]
memtest86+ is not available on UEFI.memtest86 (a non FOSS product with a free and a commercial option) is often in the answers as the alternative. However the only option you have is to download it, and format an entire USB stick and boot for it. Well… that’s not necessary! We […]
Because Ogre uses Mercurial hosted on Bitbucket, and Mercurial is being removed, this guide is aimed to helping our users to migrate as painless as possible. Git differences We need to explain a few differences from hg to git. If you’re a git expert, you can skip this section. The first main difference is that hg treats the repo history as immutable. Only advanced operations (which must be explicitly enabled) can manipulate history. And doing […]
I was watching the end of this wonderful GDC 2018 Vulkan on Android presentation but at the end of it a member of audience asked about power consumption, and I didn’t find the answers given to be useful enough. While I haven’t worked on Vulkan particularly, I do have experience with Metal […]
Welcome to the final of this 2-part series!. You can find Vertex Formats Part 1: Compression Another issue that seems to be loose in understanding is how GPUs are shaping up in the future. Traditionally, vertex formats were “push”. That means the vertex data was forced into the shader as input, […]
So, I tweeted What I just did: “Switch to SNORM16 for position and multiply the vertex by 64.0 when rendering the player’s cockpit for enough precision” – Me, right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnod9vtB4xA And that sparked waaay more attention than I thought. But it also made me realize lots of devs have incomplete […]
I’m pissed. Quite angry. While I see a lot of users saying “wow, this spectre attack is genius. And it’s been there for 20 years hidden in plain sight!”, there’s a minority of people saying “I f–king told you”. I belong to the latter. I was under the impression branch […]
Note: This is a rant. Ok, I’m pissed off. Google gets this wrong. Now my banks got this wrong too. IT NEEDS TO STOP. In case you didn’t know, 2FA stands for “Two Factor Authentication”. It’s an additional security measure for protecting your online accounts. A password is a […]
Sometimes I get this question. And since it happens frequent enough, I decided I should write it publicly so that others can benefit, and also so I don’t have to repeat myself every time 🙂 In case you don’t know me, I’m self taught. I started doing graphics programming […]
This is a rant. C++17 is at our doorstep and we’re no closer to iterable enums. And what annoys me is that I coded a solution in a single day as proof of concept that should be implemented at compiler level, yet I refuse to believe I’m 100 times smarter than […]
