Ol' Shatterham @OldShatterham@qoto.org

Official statement from @Mer__edith: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lXsSRN

wrote a GPU-based normal to height converter!

I can now watch the computer suffer as it tries to make sense of my hand painted normal map

#MaterialMaker

It's been exactly one year since my game 'Truss' was released!

If you're looking for some calm & cozy winter vibes this Christmas Even, there's never been a more perfect time to lose yourself in these woods.

Truss is free on my itch page & takes about 20 minutes to complete.

https://ompuco.itch.io/truss

A lot of people were very curious how the lossy datamosh effect was done in my latest gamedev prototype, so I decided to make this breakdown.

Everything is rendered in realtime in #unity3d using custom post processing shaders & a custom DXR (raytrace) setup.

Unless you have a DRM-free file in an open format on your own hard drive, these assholes can do whatever the heck they want.

What're you going to do, sue them? Their terms probably require arbitration and forbid class actions suits. And even if you sued and won, you'd probably end up with a check for four dollars and thirteen cents. You're definitely not getting those movies back.

It drives me up the wall how hard it is to actually buy digital creations so that you actually own them. A few places make this possible — Libro.fm for audiobooks, AK Press & No Starch for text. There's not a lot for movies and television, in part because of intense consolidation.

The truth is that the only way to really own a movie is to buy it on a disk and rip it. And much streaming TV doesn't even offer that option. You've seen how many incredible streaming shows have been memory-holed in the last year. Right now, the only way for people to watch those shows involves a tricorn hat and a cutlass.

Truly, the only way to preserve access to culture is archiving lots of copies. Centralization has done so much work to push reasonable archival activities into the margins, by making archival both technically challenging and legally uncertain. And we live in an era of the most impressive information preservation & duplication technology ever made! You can carry all of Wikipedia, thousands of books, hundreds of audiobooks, and movies and TV shows on a tiny SD card.

There's no reason that all the most important works of our culture shouldn't be massively replicated and available everywhere. You shouldn't need Internet access to read a book or watch a show. All of that should be available offline on all your devices. Just like the books on your shelf, but better and lighter-weight and easier to use. mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/111507402238224111

movement testing

(temp assets from https://loafbrr.itch.io/backrooms-like-asset-pack )

Do you put your milk or serial in first?

A new tutorial/breakdown is live!~ 🔍🖐️🔦
I've been thinking about effects that reveal hidden objects/decals, such as special lenses using stencil and ultraviolet lights (e.g. revealing ghostly handprints in Phasmophobia)

🔗https://www.cyanilux.com/tutorials/ultraviolet-lights-invisible-ink/

#unity3D #shaders #shadergraph #URP

yeah sure why not gamers love buzzwords can't get enough of them

Shader experiment of the day:
When hex tiling is used to hide texture repetition, the coordinates are usually rotated per tile. That works great for chaotic surfaces without a noticeable directionality, but doesn't work for textures where the orientation matters. So I added a switch to just offset the coordinates randomly instead of rotating them. And for brick walls, tiles, etc, there is the option to use stepped offsets, so that the tiles are still aligned to the same grid:
#gamedev #Unreal

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