GameDev Tools weekly made by Alexander Pirogov and Victor Stepanov.

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ImHUI: ImGUI in HTML

• imgui

For my silly defense, the demo linked above was old and Dear ImGui by default still ships with a subpar look. It's possible with a little effort to get it looking better (e.g https://t.co/Geql6hsaJu) but of course it's absolutely nowhere near the feature set of web renderers.

— Omar (@ocornut) March 19, 2021

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A modification of Valve’s Hammer Editor

• Source Engine

Source: Robin-Yann Storm

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Use Google AI for play-testing

• AI
• testing

The business pitch would seem to me to be you setup your game, send it to Google, they send back a model that can play the game, and you use that to automate play testing locally. Would be an interesting business model.

— mike cook (@mtrc) March 19, 2021

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Write code in PyCharm, evaluate in Maya

• IDE
• Maya

Maya Charm - Maya PyCharm connection https://t.co/zcJ4gIZwdZ

— Tech-Artists.org (@TechArtOrg) March 17, 2021

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Floating Point Bit Hacks Every Programmer Should Know

Floating Point Bit Hacks Every Programmer Should Knowhttps://t.co/Lgcb7YqIMF

— Martin Mittring (@MittringMartin) March 21, 2021

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Everything you need to know about optimizing code for x86 and x86-64

• performance

Agner Fog: Everything you need to know about optimizing code for x86 and x86-64https://t.co/6ZNUSi2KEA

— Martin Mittring (@MittringMartin) March 21, 2021

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The interpolate tool workflow

• Blender
• UX

The interpolate operator is now a Tool! Much more flexible and compatible with multiframe editing, it will surely speed up your workflow. Coming to Blender 2.93, due for release at the end of May 2021. https://t.co/Lh9cXhWLaR #b2d #b3d #GreasePencil

— Blender Developers (@BlenderDev) March 16, 2021

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Sync your build configs across PCs

• build

Safely store your configuration and import it on any PC by using Cloud Settings. #clang #LLVM #cpp pic.twitter.com/MpPVPQLnIc

— Clang Power Tools (@ClangPowerTools) March 17, 2021

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Testing Qt Apps

• gui
• Qt
• testing

Clare Macrae - Quickly and Effectively Testing Qt Desktop Applications - Meeting C++ online https://t.co/acy7OORY7X

— C++ LibHunt (@CppLibHunt) March 20, 2021

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Are you done with Qt?

• gui
• Qt
• imgui

I'm fucking done with Qt. I've had enough with their shitty build tools and environment. The whole product is a mess. And dont get me started on the licensing.

I spent the afternoon sanitizing my codebase of that crap. pic.twitter.com/KlYVNwr3r5

— Bobby Anguelov (@Bobby_Anguelov) March 20, 2021

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Improving loading times

• performance

Interesting story by t0st!

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% https://t.co/msPXnt9QtS#programming #performance pic.twitter.com/VuDLzbK2Jy

— Bartlomiej Filipek (@fenbf) March 18, 2021

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Intro to computational creativity Book

• computational creativity

This is my book https://t.co/qt7T9iTjAo

— Ollie Bown (@olliebown) March 16, 2021

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NVIDIA AI features in DCCs tools

• DCC
• AI

RTX-accelerated Adobe Camera Raw Super Resolution and @Blackmagic_News DaVinci Resolve 17 Magic Mask are just some of the updates supported in the March #NVIDIAStudio Driver, available today. ✨

📰 Find out what's new this month on NVIDIA Studio: https://t.co/bYzG9VH9E5 pic.twitter.com/gYGCAAXnxt

— NVIDIA Studio (@NVIDIACreators) March 17, 2021

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Working with Shaders in Unity

• Unity

Source: Technically Art: Issue 90 (19.03.2021) by Harry Alisavakis

My detailed "Intro to Shader Graph" post is live!✨
Explains its features, not how to make specific shader effects. Graph setup, Data types, Understanding Previews, Properties, Keywords, Sub Graphs and more! 15K words! 😅💙#shadergraph @unity3d

🔗 https://t.co/hVEXwJiyAc pic.twitter.com/dHmez4CjsW

— Cyan (@Cyanilux) March 7, 2021

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The dynamic bounding box

Source: Technically Art: Issue 90 (19.03.2021) by Harry Alisavakis

today's optimization snacc:

dynamic bounding box cropping in the vertex shader to reduce fill rate while still using the same quad mesh to allow for GPU instancing~ ✨ pic.twitter.com/bepj1McJni

— Freya Holmér (@FreyaHolmer) March 17, 2021

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The Toolsmiths updates:

• The Toolsmiths are slowly migrating the conversations from Slack to Discord

  via GIPHY

• Toolsmiths @ GDC 2021
  • GDC Tools Summit
    • Join us this summer for:
      • GDC 2021 Tools Summit!
      • GDC Tools Roundtables
• We are continuing our 3rd season of the Vault Club in our Discord Server.
  • We are discussing programming languages and how they apply to Game Tools development.
    • Just finished discussing:
      • Rust
      • Dion
      • Odin
      • Jai
      • Zig

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Did You Know??

• A procedural level generation system using Wave Function Collapse (right) and Graphs (left).
  
  Inspired by the WFC implementations of @OskSta and @ExUtumno. Thanks😁 pic.twitter.com/8bm0kATigU

  — Euri Herasme (@EuriGilberto) September 17, 2020

• You can play around with USD online

• How games were made in the past?

holiday project: port @EricChahi Another World engine to #pico8 (must have spent hours looking at intro back then!)
Converted from @fabynou C code (https://t.co/yWW52iZasC) to LUA + custom Python compiler for assets
(40 carts so far *without* music nor sound 😮🤣)
(text is wip) pic.twitter.com/jGDu2nmbU9

— Frederic Souchu (@FSouchu) December 27, 2020

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Notable Releases and Updates

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Rider 2021.1 Early Access Program

Rider 2021.1 EAP8 is here! The major release is upon us, but there’s still time for yet another EAP: https://t.co/NwA9H7vAHJ pic.twitter.com/IgnDutDWey

— JetBrains Rider (@JetBrainsRider) March 18, 2021

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Promethean AI New Release

New build is up! Release notes here:https://t.co/JP1ngRFPOe
Amidst all this hard work we almost missed an important milestone. Earlier this week have confidently crossed our first 1000 users! It's hard to put into words how much we appreciate all of you♥ Now on to a million! ;) pic.twitter.com/UMaP2GlIlm

— Promethean AI (@PrometheanAI) March 19, 2021

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#random

Find by signature?

• C++

Discoverable algorithms in C++ https://t.co/7t1LMxDaIK

— C++ LibHunt (@CppLibHunt) March 17, 2021

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Emulating game platforms in .NET

• .NET

Episode 73 of the #dotnetcore #podcast should be appearing in your podcatchers right now. In this episode, we talk with one of the developers behind @RyujinxEmu - a Nintendo Switch emulator written in #dotnetfive and #csharp
cc @shanselman https://t.co/cHNorjC3oj

— dotnetcore.show (@dotNetCoreShow) March 19, 2021

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• Graphics Programming weekly by Jendrik Illner
• Technically Art by Harry Alisavakis

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