@liljohncena.bsky.social
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3D Artist/Tertiary Education/Game Developer/Fighting Game Lover
Still covered in cat bites.
3D Artist/Tertiary Education/Game Developer/Fighting Game Lover
Still covered in cat bites.
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I should've added alt text to this before
![STOP USING NORMAL MAPS
• SMOOTH SURFACES SHOULD NOT HAVE DETAIL
• YEARS OF VIDEO GAMES yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for LYING ABOUT SURFACE DETAIL
Wanted to have higher detail for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called "cutscenes"
• "Yes, please give me a normalized tangent. Please give me a perturbed surface normal" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged
LOOK wat what Graphics Programmers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the calculators & abacus we built for them
(This is REAL Math, done by REAL graphics programmers):
[images of various shapes model, normal mapped, and rendered, a sphere with the normal, tangent, and bitangent displayed, some sort of complex math equations]
????? ??????? ?????????????????
"Hello I would like [diagram of light hitting a surface and bouncing off according to the reflection vector] texture please"
They have played us for absolute fools](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:g6tr6mz4cbt5dx4jqwmzhiaz/bafkreif2eouky7yyrkycb2qmm3v7eiml64j5bwj2olvigvyhuunuyhiy34@jpeg)
October 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I should've added alt text to this before
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3 months after adopting 2 cats
May 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
3 months after adopting 2 cats
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We've launched a rudimentary but still fun to use game scope estimation tool. Want to see the scope of your game idea in a graph? Check it out: newtonarrative.com/g...
4/13
4/13
Game Scope Calculator | New to Narrative
This is the Game Scope Calculator tool mention in this blog post. It can help calculate the development time of your project. Keep in mind that results are not super accurate, so I only recommend using it to determine if a project is viable or to help reduce your project’s scope. Was this tool useful […]
newtonarrative.com
December 31, 2024 at 3:03 PM
We've launched a rudimentary but still fun to use game scope estimation tool. Want to see the scope of your game idea in a graph? Check it out: newtonarrative.com/g...
4/13
4/13
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How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search.
Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here.
Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.
Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here.
Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.
March 27, 2024 at 3:11 PM
How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search.
Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here.
Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.
Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here.
Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.
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Share to save a nerd.
November 9, 2024 at 4:20 PM
Share to save a nerd.
All this shit sucks. I live here now.
November 9, 2024 at 3:05 AM
All this shit sucks. I live here now.