Shahriar Shahrabi | شهریار شهرابی

if the asset is correctly authored for premul and all the shader code and mip generation correctly handle it, except some high frequency edge cases you shouldnt see artifacts for things like blending particles.

depending on the problem, premult alpha could addresse some of the same problems. But in premult alpha the transparent pixels are black and any algo that samples neighbouring gets a dark halo. At the end flood fill, averaging or as some mentioned laplacian diffusion gets rid of the whole issue.

Padding Transparent Textures fir MIPs and Game Engines For rendering and game dev, transparent textures usually have incorrect color values in the areas where alpha is zero. This can cause…

Transparent textures usually have bad values in the RGB of the transparent pixels, causing visual artifacts on lower mips. Wrote a little tool to pad PNGs with transparency to TGA with alpha. Code, .exe and explaination here:
shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/padding-tran...

A little set dressing practice I did based on a scan by
@artfletch
. You can find the model here: skfb.ly/pyNyF

I will have a look at that, thanks for the tip

Brotato is a perfect example of a fun gameplay makes me forgive whatever. Somehow it lags on 5090 graphic card with top of the line CPU. Random memory spikes, possible memory leaks etc. But ... its so damn fun, 10/10

I will be in Amaze everyday this week. Say hi if you are around!

Depends on how much we get done until release and how much demand there is for various features. Since there are alot of unique setups on Steam, we would have prioritse based on demand

We have been working on both a PCVR port, as well as 2D mode for Puzzling Places! If relaxing jigsaw puzzle is your thing, give it a wish list!

📢 BIG NEWS! 📢 Puzzling Places is coming to #Steam! 🔥

Relax and build stunning 3D jigsaw dioramas ✨
🧩 30+ puzzles, 25-1000 pieces, no timers!
🎮 Puzzle your way in 2 game modes
🖥️ Play on desktop, Steam Deck, or VR!

 #cozygaming #gaming #indiegames #comingsoon

Does anyone else think chatGPT is strangely american nice? It over reacts to simple "Is this assumption of mine correct" with "you amazing elegant genius, that is spot on". I wished there was a european version of "about time you got it you idiot"

Thank you for your time looking into this. I am aware you do your best within the budget and resources you have. My post is not directed towards an Epic employee, or any one personally, but Epic the company, and how it feels to have been using unreal engine for 6 years now 👍

Waiting for 'git status' command to complete making for long compile times hmmm…I’m getting some compile errors: 23>EXEC : error : C:\UnrealEngine\UnrealEngine\Engine\Saved\UnrealBuildTool\BuildConfiguration.xml(47): The 'https://www.unrealengine.com/BuildConfiguration:Prov...

Hardly alone here, probably because mine times out forums.unrealengine.com/t/waiting-fo...

That to the side, a human first stance means (at least for me), not a "works on my machine". All these tiny things are solvable on my side, but hardly makes for a pleasing exprience of using the engine.

I honestly feel like Epic is missing a "human first" advocate in their upper managment. Terrible UX stuff is left in production for year after year, while new shinny tech stuff are added.

Sometimes bugs and UX problem make it to Unreal Engine releases, where you think, How did everyone miss it? And then remain in production for 10 years. For example since UE4.18, compiling C++ code in VS sends out a Git Status at the begining, which adds 10 minutes to compile time

Automatically turn images into jigsaw puzzles in Blender using Geometry Nodes and Python. I break it down in my latest post. You can use it for games, 3D prints, or just for fun.🧩
Code and blog post: shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/creating-a-j...
#Blender #Tech #Python #3DPrinting

The 2024 Indie Game Landscape: Why Luck Plays a Major Role in Success on Steam Discover how a small percentage of indie games dominate the revenue, and why even great games can struggle in a saturated market.

From top 100 indie games in 2024, 8% accounted for 80% of the revenue made. 99.5% of the indie games released didn't reach the million revenue threshold. In this post, I crunch the numbers for 2024 indie releases and their distribution: shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/the-2024-ind...

Ah, turns out the distribution of indie games by revenue is somewhat fractal. I I am analyzing the 2024 indie game releases by revenue, some interesting stuff! Time to write a blog post on just how lucky you need to get for the indie success 😅

The build modifer is great, having it in geometry nodes gives me even finer control for look dev, so I tend to do the stuff there.

A little nice trick to create hand writing animation with Blenders geoemtry nodes. Its only a few nodes, but you can do a lot with it

For brush strokes, I wrote a little contorl geometry nodes that let me decide where to place them, the rest happens automatically. Useful

Original Painting

Another one. This one based on a painting I did of my grandfather. The brush strokes are placed with geometry nodes. Model available on my
Sketchfab:
skfb.ly/p9PYw

2D render from Blender

Trying out Hunyuan 3D's sythensis system. Setup is fairly easy. I have done this process by hand before, the model shortens the time from 2 days to couple of hours First test on my Sketchfab: skfb.ly/p9O6U

I am not Ready for The Future of the Game Industry How prepared am I for the ways AI might reshape the game industry in the next few years? As a game developer and programmer, I’ve been…

I have been thinking through how unprepared I am for what could be the future of the game industry, brought about by AI and other dynamics.
In this post I go over what current economics of games and toilet paper have in common, and how to maybe adopt:
shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/i-am-not-rea...

My Best Books of 2024 2024 has been a fantastic year, filled with beautiful books that broadened my horizons and gave me many hours of pure bliss. It was also a…

Another fantastic year full of books. Here are my top books of 2024. I asked chatgpt to roast my shelf this year:
This list screams, “I want to dominate the world, but first I need a self-help book to explain what world domination means.” 🤣🤣🤣
shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/my-best-book...

congrats!

😂

god damn I just about caught up on the books I wanted to finish this year (there are still 3 left, but I will finish them in the coming 3 weeks), and the Economist went and added 6 new excellent books to the list. There is no end 💃