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Doomed_Daniel

@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place

Linux User, Programmer, Gamedev, Metalhead ♠️ AD(H?)D ♠️ he/him ♠️ formerly on Twitter and mastodon.technology with the same handle

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hogsy, to random
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Still a bit buggy, but collisions are almost there now too.

video/mp4

Doomed_Daniel, (edited )
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@hogsy
what's it with those MAX_POLL_EVENT messages

(and why are you not using dhewm3 :-p)

Doomed_Daniel, to random
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I released my code to write/read styles for @ocornut's Dear ImGui to .ini-like textfiles or to C++ code as a standalone MIT-licensed source file that's easy to integrate into any project using Dear ImGui with C++: https://github.com/DanielGibson/Snippets/blob/master/imgui_savestyle.cpp

It's for v1.90.6, but is easy enough to adapt to other versions, as it helps you doing that with a bunch of static assertions that check struct ImGuiStyle and enum ImGuiCol_ for changes.

Doomed_Daniel,
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I updated imgui_savestyle.cpp (which lets you write/read styles as .ini-like textfiles and allows generating C++ code to set the style settings) for Dear ImGui 1.90.8, and now it also supports the docking branch (and the regular branch): https://github.com/DanielGibson/Snippets/blob/master/imgui_savestyle.cpp

sinbad, to random

Ok I’m going to make it a weekend* project to build a PC out of the old parts I have left over from pre my workstation upgrade, install some form of desktop Linux on it and try to replicate my actual work env there to see how much worse it is for UE. I don’t want the stress of potentially breaking my real work PC but I feel like I have to try given how MS is going off the deep end

*=multiple weekends no doubt especially as my weekends are quite busy rn

Doomed_Daniel,
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@sinbad I'm curious if the Unreal Editor works better for you than it does for me.
Here menus close themselves very often (but not always), which is a total PITA.
But who knows, might be specific to my system somehow (Desktop Environment or whatever, I'm using XFCE)

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Is it normal that calling glReadPixels() in your game on (KDE?) Wayland doesn't work properly, i.e. writes a black screenshot?
I've just seen that issue firsthand on my laptop, and apparently Blender ran into the same issue two years ago: https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/issues/98462

(No, I'll not render into a offscreen buffer just to take screenshot O_o)

Only happens when using Wayland natively (SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland), when it goes through XWayland screenshots seem to work

Doomed_Daniel,
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Hmm in Yamagi Quake II screenshots work on Wayland, so I compared the code..
turns out, dhewm3 (and orig Doom3) calls glReadBuffer(GL_FRONT); before glReadPixels() - Quake2 (or at least yq2?) doesn't.
Removing that line makes screenshots work.
Possibly related: In OpenGL ES GL_FRONT is not a valid argument for glReadBuffer()

(dhewm3 still uses legacy GL, so it should be ok, but...)

Doomed_Daniel,
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Hmm I fear that it only works by chance: The screenshot function itself calls session->UpdateScreen() right before reading the pixels, which renders a whole frame and swaps the buffers. So when not explicitly reading the frontbuffer (which only gave a black screen) I assume that you'll get the back buffer, which at that point is fresh.
I guess it only works because it happens to contain one of the last frames..

Kadsenchaos, to H5N1 German
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#H5N1 in den Startlöchern. Well, you know the drill...

Doomed_Daniel,
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@korenchkin @Kadsenchaos
Vielleicht gibts für ein paar Wochen Maßnahmen, bis man wieder kein Bock mehr hat und ne Durchseuchungsstrategie fährt, ist ja auch gut fürs Immunsystem uswusfdiepaartotewärendochehbaldgestorben

Velyn, to random
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Uhhh...

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1cueqj1/my_gitea_forgejo_got_hacked_some_strange_user_a/

Doomed_Daniel,
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@Velyn
> Conclusion: don't allow ppl to register if you don't want strange people to register.

no shit.

hisham_hm, to random
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I'm not sure how I feel about the fact that since 3blue1brown open-sourced his library for producing his YouTube visualizations, various other channels produce videos with looks identical to his.

The reuse of his code to generate math animations is cool, but by sticking to the default settings (colors, fonts, text animations), people are effectively ripping off his channel's entire visual identity, and that sucks.

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@misty @hisham_hm
exactly, can't blame people for using the default settings

Doomed_Daniel, to random
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I built an Dear ImGui based settings menu for dhewm3 (Doom3 source port).
As this required lots of changes to the code (also outside the menu), this could need some testing :)

The pull request incl. binaries for Windows: https://github.com/dhewm/dhewm3/pull/576

Screenshot of dhewm3 with the new settings menu opened, the Video Options tab is active. Apart from the menu the actual game is visible in the background, it's way too bright and the colors are washed out. In the video menu the mouse cursor is on the "Gamma" setting, which is currently at 2.25 (default is one), which explains why the game looks so weird and indicates that this setting can be changed while the effect in the game is visible in realtime
Screenshot of the new settings menu in dhewm3 running on a wayland-based KDE desktop that has scaling for HighDPI displays enabled. The Video Options menu is visible, and apart from the configured resolution, the anti aliasing mode, brightness etc it shows information about current resolution and the current physical resolution (which in case of DPI scaling is higher) of both the game window and the display. The mouse is hovering a questionmark (in the UI those mean that they can be hovered to show additional information) and next to the cursor is a tooltip "Apparently your system is using a HighDPI mode, where the logical resolution (used to specify window sizes) is lower than the physical resolution (number of pixels actually rendered)."

distractal, to random
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This is the last time I'm going to mention this, because you're going to hear enough "vote for Biden or else" from everyone else.

If you are questioning whether to vote for Biden, or are abstaining, based on his neoliberalism and support for genocide, I can't blame you. He certainly is a neoliberal, and he certainly has been and is supporting genocide.

But what you're voting for this November is not a choice between two presidents. 1/

Doomed_Daniel,
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@distractal
If this is so important, why do Biden and the Dems fuck it up so much?
For example by making sure that young people will not vote for them with how they handle pro-Palestine protests and by banning TikTok.. it's like they don't want to win

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@distractal
Not sure if ranked choice would help with the general problem that you only have two parties.
I think it would help to get rid of that "winner takes it all" bullshit, and to allow coalitions, so smaller parties can get into the government as a partner, hopefully representing their voters better than a "lesser of two evil" representative would, and maybe eventually growing to be big enough to be the major partner of a coalition that provides the president

jon, to random
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They have a handy map of where I’m going tomorrow 🙂

Doomed_Daniel,
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@ulfhenrich @jon @wortkomplex
eben - "Rohrabschneider" != "Flex"

hisham_hm, to random
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"Unfortunately, to maintain C++98 compatibility, the C++ interface of librdkafka is not quite object-oriented"

Now that's a take I wasn't expecting. Is this a mainstream opinion nowadays, that one can't do OOP with old-school C++? I must be completely out of the loop as I can't see why that would be the case. I could see all sorts of arguments for using Modern C++, but lack of OOP is a new one to me.

Doomed_Daniel,
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@hisham_hm
Doesn't make sense to me either.

Doomed_Daniel, to random
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Imagine being so annoyed by the coil whine of the (external) PSU of your NAS that you build a ventilated, noise dampening box for it..

Top view of the plastic box, the lid is removed. On the left the fan can be seen, protected by a round metal grid. The powerstrip has two plugs in it: One small USB power supply (from a smartphone), which powers the fan through a white USB cable where replaced the old Micro-USB plug on the other side with a plug suitable for the fan (a regular PC case fan). The other Plug is the IEC connector that goes into the PSU. One can also see that I cut a vent into the right side of the box, so the air that is blown in from the left can exit there, creating an airflow through the box.
The plastic box is closed again and now in a cardboard box which is still open. On the right one can see a vent in the cardboard box that has a big rectangular dust filter on the outside.
The cardboard box is closed and taped shut, the left and front and top sides of the box are visible in the picture. On the left one can see the fan (or the dust filter on the fan) in a 8x8cm square hole in the cardboard box. Also visible are the two cables coming out of different small holes in the cardboard box

Doomed_Daniel,
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@nickappleton yeah, but small loud fans aren't much better, and a symptom of the same problem

stux, to random
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Whooaaath!

Two giant moths with beautiful colors and fluffy on a branch. — Feel free to correct me but this what the internet thinks: "Hyalophora cecropia, the cecropia moth, is North America's largest native moth. It is a member of the family Saturniidae, or giant silk moths."

Doomed_Daniel,
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@levampyre @RealGene @stux
Mothra

Doomed_Daniel, to random
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I've got a (probably simple) graphics programming-related question:
Is it correct that the only useful values for GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT are 2, 4, 8 and 16 (and maybe 1 for "don't use anisotropic filtering")?

At least as far as I can remember I've never seen other values configurable in games; however, for some reason, GL_TEXTURE_MAX_ANISOTROPY_EXT is used with floats (glTexParameterf()), and the spec only says "float greater or equal to 1.0"

Doomed_Daniel,
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So would an anisotropy value of 2.5 or 3 or 5 or 6.66 make any sense? Would it even be valid?

Doomed_Daniel,
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@pervognsen
Why did they make it a float then and not an integer?
Just in case they invent a way to take a fraction of a sample (and come up with a meaning for that) later?

If I set a non-POT value, will drivers just use the closest (or next smaller?) POT value, or explode?

Doomed_Daniel,
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@pervognsen
I could maybe find it out for one or two drivers - was hoping that someone who (unlike me) actually does graphics programming would know what it's like in the wild ;)

For some reason, the tutorials on the topic I found are also very vague..

Anyway, thanks for the reply!
Unless something else comes up, I guess I'll just restrict it to POT values up to the max value (which can be queried) - this is only for a settings menu.

Doomed_Daniel,
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@rygorous @pervognsen
good to know, thanks!

leftpaddotpy, to random
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cursed feature of the day: git-archive can substitute things in tarballs, which can be used to include the commit hash or even tag (!) inside a file in a source tarball.

see export-subst in gitattributes(5)

Doomed_Daniel,
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@leftpaddotpy
sounds pretty useful TBH

nickappleton, to random
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I’m losing my mind at work at the moment. I’m doing some HDMI related development and I need to use this expensive test device that has a cheap-as-shit fan in it. For the last week I’ve have this awful background noise which comes and goes because, of course, it turns on and off “as needed” (the box itself is cold all the time so I keep thinking it’s completely unnecessary anyway). If the box was mine, I’d be replacing the stupid fan…

Doomed_Daniel,
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@nickappleton
Maybe you could put it into a soundproof box or something, like this: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/

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