Maarten van der Gaag 🌻

Technical Art Director @Guerrilla

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@hermenhulst Congratulations, Hermen!

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@_plop_ Lol. I see what you did there. 😄

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@_plop_ On any reasonable device it's between hardly any diskspace or hardly any diskspace. So imo just because the ratio is high, doesn't mean the added complexity justifies the mere 10MB saved.

[Guerrilla @Guerrilla]

Brave a deadly frontier in distant lands: Horizon Forbidden West Complete Edition comes to PC on 21 March.

Join Aloy as you confront new dangers in the Forbidden West and Burning Shores. Wishlist now on Steam and Epic Games Store!

🏹 Read more: https://t.co/eNrR4Bnjic

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.

In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.

It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.

[Andrew Schneider 📦🌩️ @vonschneidz]

Want to learn #DecimaEngine inside-out? We are looking for a technical writer! https://t.co/TOH8lJ0mAI

[Cem Yuksel @cem_yuksel]

I waited for 2 years for this day! #SIGGRAPH2023 #RealTimeLive! will start at 6 pm PDT.

The live stream on https://t.co/sdbAHJFiy6 will begin in less than 5 hours.

Watch it LIVE and vote for the WINNER!

The stage is set, the presenters are ready, and the countdown has started!

[Andrew Schneider 📦🌩️ @vonschneidz]

I'm honored to be presenting @Guerrilla's new Voxel Cloud tech from #HorizonForbbidenWest #BurningShores @ #rtradvances during #SIGGRAPH2023 with "Nubis, Cubed: Methods (and madness) to model and render immersive real-time voxel-based clouds".
👇
https://t.co/2z7qHAM9g8

[Cem Yuksel @cem_yuksel]

The stage is set, the computers are running, and we are ready for the show! Do NOT miss it!
Watch LIVE and VOTE for the audience choice award!
Free live stream: https://t.co/sdbAHJFiy6
#SIGGRAPH2023 #RealTimeLive!

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

Treating #beef like #coal 🪨 would make a big dent in greenhouse-gas emissions

Cattle are a surprisingly large producer of greenhouse gases - time to stop eating beef

34% of global greenhouse gases i from food production

#climatechange #vegetarian

https://t.co/UZrUPqxh4m

[Much @Much118x]

#HorizonForbiddenWest

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@games_inu Do the above one and pick the color with the largest component.

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@JKashaar @RYStorm Ah right, interesting!

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@RYStorm @JKashaar Have you tried googling a recipe? You get a fake person's life story first. Search engine optimization is to blame.

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@itsPaulAi But not in the netherlands, it seems 😔

[Hermen Hulst @hermenhulst]

Guerrilla today

[Shawn White 🐀 @ShawnWhite]

Saddened to see more talented ex-colleagues laid off this week…

If any ex-Unity people (or current Unity people) want to have an exploratory chat about @Guerrilla or the Decima Engine feel free to reach out to me! We’ve got a bunch of positions open!

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@marcosalvi Very cool! Is there a performace/memory tradeoff possible with smaller networks vs more stored data?

[Marco Salvi @marcosalvi]

The cat is finally out of the bag :-)

I am particularly proud of this work, which was a fantastic team effort.

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@9eronimo @ChoskerSanz And yes, it's a lot of data 🤭

[Maarten van der Gaag 🌻 @GaagMaarten]

@9eronimo @ChoskerSanz Its indeed all generated offline and present in many of the assets for any location on the assets. Based on where the artists paint it in the world, it is actually enabled and shown at run-time using rules and masking in the shaders (up and a bit north :), in creases, etc)