The Seven Voyages Of Steve / is on Nostr

Greybeard. I’ve made engines (Ogre3D), devtools (Sourcetree, Git LFS), now games, Unreal Engine tools & plugins. Baker, coffee nerd, Cat Dad. He/him

Blog: https://www.stevestreeting.com
GitHub: https://github.com/sinbad

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2024-07-31 19:12:50

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while I hope you never do there’s a big unspoken “yet” in there 😉

2024-07-31 17:17:47

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I've always found multiple monitors terrible for my neck / back, at least if you use them a lot. Ultrawides have the same issue. I'd probably only actually use the middle of them ;)
I binned my multi-monitor setup years ago and went for a 4k 16:9, but even then I generally only use the 4:3 area in the middle 90% of the time. I'd actually prefer a squarer monitor than a wider one, at least for coding.

2024-07-31 15:08:02

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I have a friend with a daft screen who I run things past :)

2024-07-31 14:57:17

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Mostly I just centre stuff with a max width

2024-07-31 14:45:40

Finally got the scene capture based icon renders for hats, robes and beards working correctly for the character customisation screen. The awkward points being:
1. Getting textures streamed in before the capture
2. Fast-forwarding the mesh simulation a bit so that e.g. moustaches and hats that are simulated droop into their "rest" positions before capture - in the bind pose they're sticking straight out!
3. Switching anim blueprints because not all hats / beards use the same dynamics setup
Phew
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/881/640/288/703/958/original/4dc1a9cf65660989.png

2024-07-25 19:57:52

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oh no, we haven’t been back in years but we loved Jasper. Awful

2024-07-15 10:29:54

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there’s something very wrong with this industry that we’re constantly reinventing the fundamentals seemingly without learning anything from what came before. We’ve been making windowing systems for 40 years ffs, none of this should be challenging or surprising by now

2024-06-09 19:27:10

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Agreed, it’s the OG chest high wall game. We always liked how weighty the movement felt and how it made you need cover. A lot of my friends hate it because they want high speed run & gun stuff but it suits us much better. We started with GoW2 on the 360 and went back to the original shortly after

2024-06-09 19:20:26

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genuinely stoked for this. I didn’t play GoW for ages thinking it was too bro heavy and CoD like but I eventually played it co-op with my wife and we loved it, have played and enjoyed all of them

2024-06-08 10:59:06

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if you use it while understanding the design parameters it’s probably fine, unless you’re very constrained by size or perf. The main issue used to be not knowing if different implementations had variances which broke your assumptions, or needing to step outside the standard behaviour for some reason. Maybe that’s got better over the years? Since coming back to C++ I’ve been using UE’s containers. I never liked the way STL turns simple compile errors into long form essays though

2024-05-24 11:07:55

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One thing Linux proponents responding to this need to understand is that time is my most valuable commodity. I’m an old man in tech terms, I maybe have a decade tops left in me, and my body is fecked so I can’t spend evenings and weekends hacking anymore (without causing myself damage).
I don’t consider fussing with an OS to be good use of my time. And if it’s not 100% as functional for my current project setup, thats a bad investment.
If I was 25, sure. 😉

2024-05-24 09:55:54

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Honestly almost everything coming out of MS right now screams GTFO but I really don’t want to have to deal with Linux on the desktop (barring everything else, UE is just worse there). Apple already disappeared up their own arse years ago so that’s not an option (and again, UE is worse).
I’m going to have to make Win11 work for at least a few years and just be 100% on my guard for BS and lock it down to a known decent state.

2024-05-24 09:51:41

Hearing that Recall is exclusive to Copilot+ machines with NPUs is a an extremely good reason to never buy a Copilot+ machine with NPU

2024-05-04 11:15:31

I wish it was normal for PC cases to come with this kind of power switch. So satisfying.
Plus, cats wouldn’t be able to flip these like they can so easily with push power buttons
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/382/530/195/098/682/original/1ac0648cf8070369.jpeg
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/382/530/532/512/071/original/2299f3cb988cf6a8.jpeg

2024-04-20 10:57:41

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you can have that today if you like by using Phanpy