You also don't need to try to justify a feature using some metric like market demand nor will you get pushback around the idea that an idea is too niche or confusing. Anything that helps you, you can add yourself. And if others find it useful -- then, great -- go ahead an collaborate if you wish.
It would be really nice if blender had the ability to highlight in red faces that aren't 3 or 4 sided (An "ngon highlight" view in the viewport overlays section.)
I'm sure I could make that pretty easily, but want to know if others feel like it would be useful. Right now, I'm manually selecting all N-Gons and then assigning them to a group, but it would be much more efficient for there to be a way to automatically highlight ngon faces.
My girlfriend recently gave me the Akira Toriyama Dragon Quest Illustrations book from Japan as a birthday gift and it's awesome.
I love the way the watercolor (or perhaps ink? Can never tell...) illustrations look for the monster and character concept illustrations. Highly recommend this book for any artist out there who happens to also like RPGs.
It's a tiny bit annoying to share files between a linux host to a windows guest.
Right now, I have a firewall-protected samba server that can only be connected to from my VM to share files but I don't love this. When I tried webdav sharing via spice, though, the performance was too slow and a bit annoying to work around.
@scherzog Well, ideally I would share my files between host/guest but I seem to run into a lot of performance problems when doing so. Syncthing would have duplicates, which is fine also
I think I've found a decent compromise with webdav where I treat it as my git remote on my virtual system just so I can pull code and then compile. This at least makes it less burdensome to write my code on my linux system. When passing windows builds back, I'll just use warpinator or something of the same vein.
I feel like seeing @potus on the fediverse is a nice step in the right direction. Let's federate our social media and have more interoperability please!
I was a bit preoccupied to post about it last week, but I had a good time at #gdc2024 . Good to meet up with colleagues and talk in depth with others about #godotengine .
Hopefully we continue to make progress on our goals and have an even better GDC in 2025. :)
Hmm... So now I can get AMD HIP to work with blender but some materials that uses a normal map seems to be glitched out rendering black with blue/green distortion. Doesn't seem to happen to all my files so perhaps there's something wrong w/ my materials.
The crashing is absolutely bonkers though. Seems to be a 1/5 chance that GPU compute rendering causes a crash. #b3d#amd
@bitinn Bah, it almost worked. I could get rocm to ignore my integrated graphics with ROCR_VISIBLE_DEVICES but cannot get it to stick in blender. Blender will simply show me no graphics cards compatible with HIP. I'm asking in the support chat and maybe promoting it to a bug if nobody seems to have a clue.
I can't help but feel like it should be running better than my CPU in cycles renders (seems to get the same time as my CPU of 48 seconds on medium-detail render) but it isn't. I'm borrowing my brother's RX 6650 XT just to test blender performance with the card and it's seemingly.... mid? #b3d#blender3d#3d
@danil That's a real bummer. I would have hoped the state of GPGPU for ray tracing and rendering would at least be figured out by now. Well, this gives me some information on future graphics card purchases I suppose.
@eoinoneill I thought getting AMD RDNA3 as "playground" to do some commits to mesa/linux kernel.
I have amd Ryzen with integrated GPU, and it was insanely extremely bugged i Linux first year when after I got it, could not even work for 10min before PC freeze, but with my little help and others - since kernel 6.2 this integrated GPU started working perfectly fine, I used it as main GPU since then.
Maybe those bugs also can be fixed by driver updates and since they opensource - you can do it.
Looking into nixos for the first time is kind of crazy. It seems really easy to get lost in configuration files. For example, it seems like you can enable services without having them installed? (whoops, lol)
I do like how each version is accessible from systemd.boot though -- that's definitely neat.