I have been sitting on a follow up post about PS1 rendering based on my project about that which talks about doing this. I must get it finished one of these days.

Regardless this is the shader that does the dithering: github.com/DavidColson/...

The current thought is to transition away from linked list and instead optimize queries with a tree like VSCode has done or like the Fred editor shown at handmade cities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmIN...

I've learned a lot of really interesting things about text rendering, syntax highlighting and UI stuff, which I hope to share bits of and maybe write some articles on stuff

This often comes up in the context of small game entity systems, where usually you don't have more than a hundred or so entities, and so a fat struct entity does not incur much performance penalty because you don't iterate over that many, and in exchange you get a simpler architecture.

There is a tradeoff here that is worth discussing I feel. Fat struct architectures are simpler and more flexible, but yes they are worse for cache use.

The situations where one might use them would be when you don't have that many instances of something, so the memory throughput benefit is minimal

The lower leagues of motorsport emphasis driver skill _much_ more (they often race with the same, or at least normalized cars) and the difference is really noticeable compared to F1

What I think is crazy cool about F1 is that the drivers are ridiculously talented, and it's super hard to drive at the pace they do. But they're all so close in skill after filtering out so many other drivers, that what separates winners from losers ends up not being driver skill in many cases.

I won’t say any more in public on this topic, I don’t want to get anyone in trouble (my dms are available if anyone reading this thread wants to chat), but yea it’s really nice for me to see you try to solve these issues with a fresh take on the matter.

This whole topic is precisely the issue SC's flight model had/has lol. It's too good, we had to resort to inventing lore that allowed us to nerf thrusters in atmosphere to get it to look okay. And even then it wasn't the best.

Is it just any speed that contributes to this? I.e. if I thrust from a standstill on the ground, I start to get some forward momentum without any other inputs?

I have also come to realise that there may be less stabilization than it feels, if you take the stick as a yaw/pitch angle rather than a yaw/pitch _rate_ then when you let go it settles?

The blending is also very interesting, you can just take off from a standstill in normal mode and I guess you just lift off because it's 100% down thrust, but it very quickly starts moving forward. I have been trying to land vertically in manual mode, but haven't quite seen if I can do that

An immediate thing that strikes me is how much stabilization you have. Hovering was always such a precarious state when we tried it on Star Citizen. But this feels "managed" which I gives you that "looks cool but is easy" feel. It's very cool, I am a fan

Oooh yes please!

Is this something like helicopter style hovering but with assists?

Is the auto-aim done with a gun gimbal such that it's decoupled from ship orientation? Or something else?

I don't know how well it'll show up on bluesky, but the text rendering in particular is vastly better.