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Yep. I was an intern at Disney Feature Animation when GIMP first came out. It was really exciting, an alternative to Photoshop (which used to run on linux!) and our in-house painti…

Take a look at Slint or Avalonia if you miss this experience. And I'll take needing an internet connection over having to install Visual Basic from a stack of CDs.

I'm still not great at it, but the biggest thing that helped me was to give myself a rule, "Don't talk about what I'm planning, only talk about what I've done". Explaining a projec…

Some Jam Games with web builds: https://itch.io/jam/luxe/entries?ref=luxeengine.com https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/56/terrarium-combinarium https://joeld42.itch.io/bridges Mor…

I've been playing with this engine for a while. I really like the engine. For me the best features are: - Scripting is really ergonomic, and fairly fast performance-wise. And if yo…

hmm, i've played around a bit with level design in the past and honestly Arcol wouldn't be that great a fit. I like Probuilder in Unity for that, I think the key to any good workfl…

yeah, great idea. Eventually we'd love to get there, supporting all stages of the AEC pipeline. But the scope is so huge we can't give it the level of design attention and polish t…

Exactly! It’s great to see that this idea resonates!

We're hoping to provide tools that let firms build whatever workflows they need. Right now, we have design options to present and compare different options and variants of scenes, …

It coexists with Revit right now, and is a good place to do feasibility and early design and get instant metrics and feedback. We think it's a lot more collaborative and design fri…

Thanks! We love to hear it!

Exactly, at this stage, the output is mainly for feasibility, presentations and communication. But we can also export models to Revit or 3D formats like GLTF to use in the next ste…

We don't need to update the scene at once, so when geometry changes we rebuild the buffer and send it over to typescript, and the three.js mesh will own the buffer. By being carefu…

haha yeah! It feels like a real pain point in the industry right now. Hopefully we can make it easier for communication between design, engineering and construction.

It is using ThreeJS for the 3D rendering, with a custom Rust geometry kernel to generate the mesh buffers to render. The editor interface is React based.

We're launching Arcol today! Check it out. Modern CAD tool, built for the browser with Rust+Typescript for high performance and an elegant UX. Check out the announce video that exp…

The one that had the most personal influence on me was the chapter from Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book: https://www.phatcode.net/res/224/files/html/ch17/17-01.htm…

If you are looking for an existing car, there's a lot of sites selling pre-made vehicle models for pretty much anything, that's probably going to be higher quality and need less cl…

Most of the drawing work of a GUI is drawing text, shape paths, and images. A GPU-accelerated UI layer draws these using GPU commands. It's not exactly the same as making an ortho …

ImGui doesn't have "components" like a traditional toolkit. If you want a custom component you just make a regular function like: MyCustomThing::MyWidget( "name", whatever_value );…

This looks really good. It's nice to see some options like this (and slint) appearing for cross-platform desktop GUI. I'm pretty skeptical of "modern" c++ but this looks like a goo…

It's a gambling term, it means the amount you have to win to break even.

I've heard of using "Geiger counter allocators" -- custom allocators that make a small click whenever an allocation happens to get a sense of when a program is doing lots of alloca…

I like the idea but this is non-standard enough to be just as hard as making a custom format. In my experience, the best way to handle this is: 1) Use TSV (tab-separated) instead o…