Today I tried Xubuntu 24.04 (with an X, but the bug applies to Ubuntu as well) inside VirtualBox and first thing I noticed is that it was crashing. A lot. And I am not alone. After a quick digging, the installer heavily relies on OpenGL. But it’s not behaving properly. […]
So I’ve been working into integrating Qt Quick (QML) and OgreNext when using the Vulkan RenderSystem for use in Gazebo. Note that I’m talking about Qt Quick. The ‘stable’ Qt Widgets interface (which uses QVulkanWindow) doesn’t have this problem because it’s too simple. There are various ways to perform an […]
Ok that was a flashy clickbait-y title! What? You didn’t like it? I’m proud of that one! So I recently tried to implement 16-bit floats into our shaders. I knew it was untested. What I was not prepared is… how untested everything is! We use macros like #define midf min16float. […]
So I got Radeon 6800 XT working on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS but it wasn’t hassle free, given the card is too new To get it working, you’ll need the following: Kernel Installation Without a newer Kernel, the OS won’t know how to talk to the GPU. Kernel 5.13 is recommended. […]
I’m adding this as a reminder for myself. To get ASAN to work with Ignition Gazebo we first need to modify CMakeLists.txt to build with ASAN. For every module (e.g. ign-gazebo, ign-rendering, ign-gui, etc) you wish to have full ASAN analysis, write this at the top of each CMakeLists.txt: Running […]
So… I made a joke that became more popular than I expected. I thought it was going to be a niche joke only graphics programmers would understand, but as it got popular I got to realize many others would get it too: Substance Painter artists, Adobe users, Blender/Maya/etc users rendering […]
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 […]
