To prevent Unreal Engine shipping builds from crashing on Linux with dual graphic cards, simply add
DRI_PRIME=1, e.g. DRI_PRIME=1 ./MyProject5-Linux-Shipping
Since I have some problems with my wrists, I am using a Wacom tablet as my main point and click device. It is not a perfect substitution for the mouse: the scroll wheel is missing, and clicks are not very precise. It also does not work very well with multiple screens. Also, a lot of accidental clicks occur; just a light touch on the tablet triggers the click. Later I am trying to fix it so that the click only occurs with a firmer touch. And now I am realizing I do not have good feedback, sometimes I do not know if I pressed strong enough to trigger the click. I would like to have some visual flicker on the cursor and maybe some sound on the click and release.
It is quite daunting to make a full featured game. By my estimation, it will take at least 5 years. I want it now, of course. I was thinking about different approaches to speed up the game development process. One was to automate as much as possible and also leverage GPT-3 for storymaking and game design.
I started working on it, first with procedural buildings. Then, I made a little text-based game using GPT-3. Still, it will require a lot of time to have a good set of tools.
I am thinking of creating some traction by making minigames using the code from my experiments. I want the games to be funny and meme-focused, and also focus on how the game is going to look on the stream. I will release it on itch.io for free and advertise it to streamers.
This way, I will be able to expose myself as a game developer and test my tech in a real environment.
What is going on with Amazon product pictures? Recently we ordered a couple products and they were much smaller than we expected. The scrubber for the grill grids and the towel hooks. Some of my friends are saying you’re stupid and that you should always check product dimensions. Am I stupid or are sellers intentionally making pictures to make products look bigger?
eerie - strange and frightening.
TIL; I can write shader code (HLSL) in Unreal Engine
Here is the link to the documentation.
TIL; imgur = image URL
Load null-sink
pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=music
Unload all null-sinks
pactl unload-module module-null-sink
AirPlay on Linux
uxplay -avdec
Playing the lottery is a waste of money, but why is paying for insurance not?
Ubuntu like 22.04 OSes are coming with pipewire instead of pulseaudio. On my machine, it has a bug and
sometimes does not recognize new audio devices. In this case, I need to restart pipewire with the following
command:
systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse
I am trying to code, and the code is not going. And I realized I forgot to wear my programmer socks. But when I put them on, I realized they were just regular socks with binary code printed on them. (GPT-3 assisted story)
🌸 Wed, May 4, 2022 🌸
Why in English is it “open” but “closed”? Why “ed”?
🌸 Tue, May 3, 2022 🌸
I gave up on VMWare. Give back my money.
🌸 Tue, May 3, 2022 🌸
cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as “It compiles, therefore is C++”
C++ compiler so slow, and does some much optimization, sometimes I think it’s Deep Thought computer from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. You put tons of C++ code in it, and after a while it generates assembly
eax, 42
pop rbp
and you have no idea why.
www.quora.com is useless.
Quite often, answers are useless, e.g., no, you cannot do it; you have to be able to read assembly code. But I can read assembly.
TIL; fmod
I wanted to implement a day/night cycle and I needed to convert time to sun angle. So fmod function can do
it like this:
auto angle = std::fmod(time / dayLenght, 1.f) * 360.f
I’ll bring an unpopular opinion, but “Select is broken.”
Finally, I took the time I reply to all recruiters. It is a good problem to have but still has to be addressed.
The phon is a logarithmic unit of loudness level for tones and complex sounds. In contrast with dB, the phon is a unit associated with a subjective percept.
How to make Unreal Engine load fast on Linux? Go here: https://github.com/adamrehn/ue4-docker/issues/177 and install glibc-dso patch. 4 min 6 sec went down to 14 seconds on my laptop.
TIL; Lolita by Nabokov is an illegal book in United Kingdom.
🌸 Sat, Apr 9, 2022 🌸
OMG ninite and lumen work under Linux natively in UE5.
🌸 Thu, Apr 7, 2022 🌸
It is so hot here, the heat triggers breakers.
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