lol I never saw that repo but seems somebody reversed engineered our file format :)
Not sure if there is anything tech in-depth remaining after the unity acquisition (and the codecs were hardly publicly documented anyway).
your paper actually references some of the founders ([HPLV12])

nice results! This is almost identical on how we used to do virtual texturing with GraniteSDK. Except it was a CPU-based custom codec (JPEG inspired with DCT/huffman/arithmetic/...) transcoding into DXT.

If you do it reversed (Belgium and NZ), these couple of weeks are actually the ones where you might be 'done for the day' before midnight :)

half of the vfx and/or comp artists out there 😆

"objects that look the same"
These few words are carrying a lot of weight here :P this is either a 200 lines python script or a 2.5million LoC code base

my response to this either makes me a noob or a senior dev 😁🤷‍♂️

Me and my 700 chrome tabs agree that tabs are very useful 🙂 I just assumed people had multiple instances of the same program 🤷‍♂️ maybe so one of them can crash without taking out the other tabs or maybe it is just a vfx thing where single ops like simulation/rendering/loading/… can take minutes 😁

As cool as it looks, the main thought in my mind was ‘why’? Like, would you actually expect people to craft multiple meshes simultaneous in different tabs? Is this a real thing (and am I simply too far removed from typical day-2-day art workflows to see the practical value)?

depends on how you implement it? I use a DXC include handler in my home rendertoy to get includes and those get injected into my “asset dependency graph manager” (that is updated by change journals and/or importers etc). Works fine (though current impl might not scale to real production complexity)

You can use a custom include handler in DXC that collects the files that are included. After that it is fairly simple to build a full dependency chain (just some hashmaps often work fine since the number of shader files tends to be rather low)

It depends but often done in post I would say. Having a deep rendering/compositing pipeline, you can get insanely HQ DoF and so it give a lot of flexibility

I managed to arrive a day early on my interview for my very first job :) don't let it get to your head because at the end of the day, it is all about what you bring to the table