Love real-time 3D, game making and team building. German living in Ireland. Ex CTO at DIGIT. Ex VPoE at Scopely. Ex Head Of Tech at Bigpoint.
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Finally! Rigged hair cards from a single image.
HairDeck (Tsinghua + CMU + CUHK) takes one character image and builds a stylized haircut as separate 3D hair cards, with bone chains already attached. The hair sways when the head turns.
Exports to GLB, or straight onto a VRM avatar.
Code and weights are open under Apache 2.0. You get geometry and UVs, no textures yet. Local run wants Linux and CUDA.
github.com/hyz317/HairDeck
All the C vs Rust comments referring to use after free: i’ve not seen agents running into this issue. So I don’t understand why this comes up so frequently in the comments - did those people actually try or do they just assume?
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Bento - A shading language and shader compiler infrastructure for building shaders and shader tools.
graphitemaster.github.io/Ben…
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Introducing Satori Insight, an open-source #dotnet memory profiler with real-time heap maps, GC events, pause stats, and session replay.
Built with #AvaloniaUI. Supports Workstation, Server, and Satori GC on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
github.com/hez2010/SatoriIns…
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MessagePack for C# v4.0.0-preview.1出しました！完全な再設計により、2倍以上のパフォーマンス向上、セキュリティ強化、ネイティブAOTの完全サポート、C# 14のunion対応を含む多くの新機能が追加されています！ぜひ試してください！
github.com/MessagePack-CShar…
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The Commodore 64 hardware simulator is now online: github.com/antirez/c64-hw-si…
It was mind-blowing. Took ages to start due to the asset generation at start. Had the privilege to work a tiny bit with one or two of them later. Exceptional people!
In 2004, a German demoscene group released a game called .kkrieger.
It was a full 3D first-person shooter with dynamic lighting, textures, sound effects, music, and monster AI.
The entire executable was 96 kilobytes. Instead of storing images and audio files, they wrote C++ and Assembly that generated the 3D meshes, textures, and sound waves mathematically in RAM when the game booted.
Today, a single website's "Accept Cookies" banner is 10x larger than that entire 3D game.
Dominique Boutin retweeted
Vibe coding, DIY hardware, and 3D printing will lead to a renaissance in arcade-style gaming.
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In the age of AI, making "No breaking changes" your main selling point is a disaster.
What we worked on when I left was to make Unity 7 a super tight, fast core of functionality. Even back then, in the fall of 2022, we knew AI would destroy the benefit of C# and the programmer dominance. And we pushed so hard to break only once and break hard.
The new CEO just didn't care. He fired or drove off everyone who disagreed with with him.
So now little Timmy can write a three line prompt in any LLM and have a fully functioning game running in his browser in 30 minutes. The bottom of the chain from whence Unity was born is gone. And the top of the pyramid is Unreal and custom engines.
There is no reason for Unity to exist in its current form.
And they continue to insist on not changing it.
Compatibility was a big pain for live games that needed to move across versions to keep platform support and bug fixes.But I think one big reset was needed as well because it’s too slow.Maybe the slower transition to Core Clr will do it but right now small games dont need Unity
In the age of AI, making "No breaking changes" your main selling point is a disaster.
What we worked on when I left was to make Unity 7 a super tight, fast core of functionality. Even back then, in the fall of 2022, we knew AI would destroy the benefit of C# and the programmer dominance. And we pushed so hard to break only once and break hard.
The new CEO just didn't care. He fired or drove off everyone who disagreed with with him.
So now little Timmy can write a three line prompt in any LLM and have a fully functioning game running in his browser in 30 minutes. The bottom of the chain from whence Unity was born is gone. And the top of the pyramid is Unreal and custom engines.
There is no reason for Unity to exist in its current form.
And they continue to insist on not changing it.
Dominique Boutin retweeted
github.com/MaxLiu22/Motion2M…
Made an open-source one that does the same thing, and there's a Blender extension available for it now too.
🛑 Stop wasting hours cleaning up mocap. MotionGen by TAngraFX lets you extract video to clean animation in just 3 keyframes. It’s literally a few clicks to ready-to-use motion. Watch the tutorial!
#Blender #TAngraFX #3DAnimation #MotionGen
These charts make no sense to me while looking at where dublin, paris and london are placed. Dublin is very expensive and lot of Irish people leave because they cannot afford to live here
Dominique Boutin retweeted
Who's ready to melt their GPU?! 🙋🏻♂️
Three.js Fire Pro is now available as an open-source package!
Create effects using the built-in editor, export your configuration and load into your scene.
Try it out👇🏻
dgreenheck.github.io/threejs…
See README for information on how to use
github.com/dgreenheck/threej…
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I have released a new library for Rust called retro-image github.com/emoon/retro-image It allows you to load around 600 different formats spanning Amiga, Atari, C64, Spectrum, etc. Full format list here: github.com/emoon/retro-image… Zero external dependencies.
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We're excited to announce Zeiger! a fast, free image viewer for Windows and macOS, from the Blick team. Now in public beta.
Sharp pixel zoom, quick edits, a color picker, EXIF, GIF scrubbing, and more!
Completely FREE for personal and commercial use, link in comments.
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そしてRE:DoxはOSS公開！
github.com/CAPCOM-TD-OSS/RED…
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Free image-to-3D models don't preserve your source image - text, logos and fine detail come back garbled.
I got that working with my latest 'Pixel Match' feature in my image-to-3dlab: it copies the actual pixels from your source onto the model, even after retopo down to ~5k faces. High quality, low poly 3D models that are riggable and can be animated.
One step closer to Tripo / Meshy level of output, but free and on your own machine. Mac + NVIDIA.
Try it out here: github.com/Bingeljell/image-…
There's lots more to do, so please test, raise issues & PRs, etc.
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Just a reminder that Mac Performance Monitor is free and open source… you know, if paying $40 a year for #tmog isn’t your thing…
github.com/Zesty0wl/mac-perf…
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Check out this free mocap collection from Artist Anderson Rohr, featuring everyday actions like brushing your teeth, petting a dog, and drinking coffee.
Download the free animations:80.lv/articles/download-this…
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🪄 Bring your 3D characters to life with words!
Introducing UniMate: one unified model for text-driven animation across diverse skeletons—from humans and animals to articulated objects.
🎬 A rigged asset + a text prompt → motion.
No per-skeleton retraining needed!
🌐 linzhanmou.com/unimate/