Status update: I stopped posting on twitter, save for occasional reply or retweet. My blog has a feed (aras-p.info/atom.xml), and regular daily shite is over at mastodon.gamedev.place/@aras

RenderDoc v1.41 is now available! It adds threaded support for shader debugging, enabling debugging of shaders that use subgroup/wave operations and simulating all threads in a compute group. Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/renderdoc… Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds

Time for a serious topic - business & struggles. A short story about how doodling with Blender Game Engine became a small business along with my brother @_karlisup 1/x 🧵 🚨 ‘20 years in Blender’ anniversary emergency bundle: superhivemarket.com/products…

Behind the scenes of some of the techniques I developed for the water in ‘Flow’. 🧶 1/5 First video - surface geometry and fragment normal generation. Optimisation for EEVEE mostly. Second video - shading prototypes. #b3d #blender3d #FLOW

#BCON25 highlights: № 1 - awkward selfies with rockstars

I’ve just assembled an ad for Epic Games. What has the world come to, eh @TimSweeneyEpic #bcon25

The Blender Foundation annual report 2024 is out! Read about the supported activities, the people, and the long term mission and vision of the organization. blender.org/news/blender-fou… #b3d

Apple's 3D viewer is based on @threejs, uses @glTF3D and gets more impressive every year! CAD meshes, environment blends, reflection probes, occlusion: let's take a look at what's special this time – (long thread ahead)

I'm so happy to share that the stairs update is liiiiiive. This is by far our biggest update that we've been cooking since *checks calendar* omg, since March x_x Huge thanks to everyone who helped us test it while in beta <3 Now lemme walk you through some of the new shinies 🧵

📣 Blender is looking for people to join the team! Read our new job postings and get in touch - let's collaborate! ➡️ UX Designer | Dev Manager | Render and Graphics Engineers ✍️ #b3d #cganimation #rendering #uxdesign #jobs #apply blender.org/jobs/

Testing the @insta360 X5 for gaussian splatting. Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Trained in Brush and running around with a PS5 controller in Unity using @aras_p plugin. #gaussiansplatting #3DGS

***We are hiring*** My small game studio Frame Interactive is looking for some talented people to help with our unannounced PC/Console game. - Platform Engineer - Graphics/Optimization Engineer - 3D Art Generalist See reply for details and link: (Not actual gameplay⬇️)

Join @aras_p as he walks me through the @unity memory lane - from the inception until very recently! We talk about the engine, development, Unity subsystems (DOTS, Scriptable Rendering Pipelines) but also company, culture, and how it changed over the years! @aras_p thank you for joining me! It was an honor!

Because there's no dialogue in Flow, it was important to me that the goals and motivations of the characters are simple and clear. The cat wants to reach and climb up the giant cliff towers to escape from the flood. The design of the towers had to be iconic and recognisable from far away. This was partially inspired by environment design in some video games which feature big landmarks which help you find the right direction to go towards.

Flow director and dog react to Oscar nominations.

Flow was made entirely with Blender and rendered in real time with EEVEE. We didn't use a renderfarm. The final render was done on my PC. There was no compositing, all the colors were tweaked and adjusted using shaders.

The two most educational things in any new environment: - run the project in a profiler - run the project in a debugger it sounds silly but just singlestepping through the whole thing anwers so many questions

The Blender Studio team is proud to release Project Gold, a technical showcase focused on stylized rendering, along with an add-on designed to achieve a painterly look. Learn more: studio.blender.org/blog/proj… Watch Project Gold: piped.video/watch?v=nV_awXI9… #b3d

So I got a new machine. Windows 11. Brand new. It's stuck updating. It is taking ages. Why? Well, I don't have any definitive answers but my most basic instinct is to always attach a profiler -- I recommend the excellent @SuperluminalSft. 1/n

A head of hair, a sea of grass rtx3090, editor

15ish years ago ⁦@__ReJ__⁩ and ⁦@aras_p⁩ about to rob the windmill de gooyer