Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni

Principal Engineer and architect for a bunch of simulation and "digital matter" projects at Roblox.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@tylermcbride Thanks Tyler! You're a treasure. It was fantastic working with you.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

Last week at Roblox. Time for something different. Just don't know what yet.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@spotco ay, thanks ✨

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@MaximumADHD 🫡

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@Paul2448 Ditto. Sad I didn't make it to one more RDC. Have to make a decent game so I can get in.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@grilme99 @MaximumADHD Abusing another feature to accomplish something entirely different from it's purpose is the strongest feature request / forcing function there is.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

It's such an unconventional and eclectic choice, but it's a defining choice that the world is defined in terms of these real-world analogous connections, not the ones most obvious for implementing a simulator at a lower level.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

To me, the thing that most defines Roblox as an engine is welds. What is the source of truth for how things move relatively? An explicit tree defined by the user, or an implicit, derived one from physical connections between objects?

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@MaximumADHD The restrictions are harsh, but even if not it'd be a sub-par API for VFX. EditableMesh is meant for editing. A proper VFX API would probably be more declarative and shader like. Build on demand for correct LOD, cache/discard/rebuild results like asset data in memory in general.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@MaximumADHD I think this is actually a common way to do this.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@Onogork Massive team effort with a lot of amazing people. Can't wait to see what you do with it. The crazy creative people like yourself make it worth it.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@zeuxcg @MaximumADHD For better or worse, EditableImage:IsA("<<<ROOT>>>") still. It's generic functionally for non-Instance objects with reference identity across reflection/replication/serialization, but for now it's only used for asset-objects...

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@Onogork ❤️

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

Been working on this thing in various forms for almost 2 years. It's crazy what it's taken to get this far. We're getting so close...
https://t.co/9lHV9c81dt

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@MaximumADHD @BizzarBlitz That was me! Sorry about that.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

When you work on Roblox long enough

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@MaximumADHD 👀
https://t.co/EjGIkp4huQ

[TheGamer101 @TheGamer101]

This week I made the largest Roblox Engine API change of my career. It's mostly an internal change, nothing super exciting yet, but I'm interested to see what people will think of the API dump update next week.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

The only reason software estimation is impossible is nobody accepts uncertainty. You give someone a range, they pick a single number, add up those scalars and get a meaningless result.

[Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni @ContextLostRBX]

@VicVijayakumar Wonder if targeting big-name giant companies early in your career does the opposite.