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Maarten van der Gaag

@mgaag.bsky.social

Technical Art Director at Guerrilla Games

146 Followers  |  113 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 14.09.2023  |  1.6195

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Photo of book Elsewhere by Katherine Oktober Matthews

Photo of book Elsewhere by Katherine Oktober Matthews

The first copies of my new book Elsewhere are now printed and out in the world. This personal essay told through words & photos is available now for pre-order and is out from June 12!

09.04.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think its the effect you also see on clouds when looking along with the light. Its the opposite of the silver lining. There is not enough medium to scatter the light often enough to send much back into the view direction or "pick up" color.

10.03.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A tweet from Trump that reads β€œAll Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter”

A tweet from Trump that reads β€œAll Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter”

ahhhhhhhhhh

04.03.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2836    πŸ” 516    πŸ’¬ 497    πŸ“Œ 1227

🀣

04.03.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Its not as much the quality here (shaders should yield the same results on all hardware) as the instruction sets. Because hardware manufacturers cannot easily support a single standard, the developers are forced to compile shaders on your machine instead of in advance as they do on console.

16.02.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

People in this dimension clearly need it.

28.01.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd love to see that!

26.01.2025 08:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Interesting article about memory arenas!

19.01.2025 20:50 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well this is quite an opener

20.01.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1963    πŸ” 759    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 35

Yeah, it was nice to almost recover over the holidays from the bioterrorism that's daycare. Full hazmat seems wise!

06.01.2025 08:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is what we do at Guerrilla:

- Bilinear upsample the mip to original res
- Find the bin in the histogram of the upsampled mip where the coverage matches the original
- Scale the mip's values to move that bin to whatever cutoff you use

Works with regular alpha and SDF.

04.01.2025 18:19 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My new Emotion Mixer is doing great out in the wild, and I can’t wait to hear back how people make use of it. It’s designed as a tool to bring emotional richness to your creations, for example by creating an emotion palette to amplify and aestheticize the emotional experience. More: emotionmixer.com

03.12.2024 09:22 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Is Jendrik Illner on BlueSky yet? In case he's not, here's a link to today's Graphics Programming Weekly:

www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

24.10.2024 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I had exactly this problem. Now I limit sleeping videos to crafts people (especially blacksmithing) and geopolitics (can listen with eyes closed). So those two categories will trigger sleepiness πŸ˜…

25.09.2023 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reaching 1 Million Users Today, we reached over one million users on Bluesky.

We reached 1,000,000 users!

blueskyweb.xyz/blog/9-12-20...

12.09.2023 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7502    πŸ” 1656    πŸ’¬ 252    πŸ“Œ 387

First post here and my first follower @andrewschneider.bsky.social gets to see it!
I'm looking forward for this to become a great community for gamedev and related topics!

14.09.2023 08:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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