Mattia Metry

Dev; Tech Nerd; Focusing on 3D real-time rendering and gamedev;

[Zhiqin Chen @ZhiqinChen3]

Residual Primitive Fitting of 3D Shapes with SuperFrusta

Another great work done by our intern Aditya Ganeshan @AdobeResearch.

We introduce a framework for converting 3D shapes into compact and editable assemblies of analytic primitives.

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

@puck_psx Really nice piece of software!
I was wondering for a while now, how is making a tool in Unity? Do you have some pros/cons after these couple of weeks?

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

@miketuritzin I see. And so i assume you just render the mesh-based stuff after the sdf scene and compose them using the depth buffer?

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

@miketuritzin What is the reason you feel the need to have mesh-based assets? Are SDF CSGs limiting in some way? Or is it mainly texturing?

[ThePrimeagen @ThePrimeagen]

Alright interns, we need to have some real talk here

I am tired of vibing on stream. I dont really like vibe coding unless its a tool i have no desire to build (how i manage things on my stream / how i write my youtube videos are great examples of things i would never build but i have). I dont like vibing the things i care about. I hate the code it generates, i hate the feeling of getting everything i ask for and nothing i want. I hate the subtle offness around vibe coded things. It is just driving me nuts. So for the next while i am going to be done vibing on stream.

I genuinely have been trying my hardest to make this work and i cannot quite put a finger on why i hate it, but i do. And i just feel so horribly guilty and wrong because i am not getting the results of "everyone else on twitter."

How am i, someone who prides themselves on making youtube videos that i think are actually good for people. To make videos that help people laugh at the silliness of tech or learn something new. But here i am not able to keep up with all these people claiming the sky is literally coming down. I just feel horrible and guilty about it.

Now i know the world is changing fast, and i want to be able to understand that change super well, be able to talk about it, be able to give really accurate opinions about it so for the last 3 months i have vibe coded an absurd amount of things. But now... i am just tired of it.

I dont want this any more. I want to be a tradcoder.

I dont know why i told everyone this, but i just have this growing sickness that is just eating me alive around vibing and i dont know how to express it.

You all are fired,

CEO ThePrimeagen

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

Ever since i started working on my personal project using Odin, I feel so slow when having to use Unity for my job. But its not even just the slow engine & compiling times, its also the fact that it pushes you to work with many abstraction layers i feel like

[Łukasz | Wookash Podcast @wookash_podcast]

And btw, podcasts that are in various stages of release pipeline include:
- @mmalex Hardware from Scratch - live design of the tiniest game console
- @DelaneyGillilan on why JS sucks, but web itself doesn't (Datastar btw)
- @antovsky (one more Large Arrays of Things + joint Code Review of Anton's games from 2008)
- @miketuritzin on his SDF engine & upcoming game
- @filpizlo & @cmuratori on Fil-C & memory safety more broadly
- @zeuxcg on meshoptimizer (tons of cool awesome graphics info!!)
- @castano on his time at Nvidia, Thekla & Spark - realtime GPU texture codec (hats off!)

Since it's a lot the plan is to pick up the pace for couple of weeks and release two episodes weekly.

Are you ready?

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

I can't believe how freaking long this took, but finally: i have a small instanced renderer with a render graph running on mac, windows and linux with sdl3 and in the browser using
#odinlang and #wgpu
Next up: MSDF font rendering 😎

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

Learning about UTF8 strings is way deeper than i thought. Having to manually deal with runes vs characters etc. is something i never thought about prior to researching it to then implement myself

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

Unions also seem like a very nice and well thought through concept!

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

Currently reading the @odinlang book by @karl_zylinski and enjoying it so far. Especially the fact that switch statements expect all possible cases by default or it doesn't compile is such a small thing but one i would love to have in every language!

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

Having bought an e-ink tablet has been one of the best investments recently!
I can finally read and mark down the holy Game Engine Architecture book without any distractions!

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

A long long time ago, someone came up with the .csv file type which stands for "COMMA separated values" - then microsoft came along and just used semicolons instead. Thanks microsoft :)

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

#AdventOfCode Day 1
Participating for the first time :)

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

That feeling when your code just starts to fall into place - seemingly emerging and shaping itself.... This is why i code!

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

So i basically just broke my brain for 3h straight on some recursion problem... A few stack overflows and a ton of breakpoints later, it finally works😮‍💨

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

Highly recommend @cmuratori talk at @BetterSoftwareC !
Working in Unity made me feel like I was forced into OOP, but this talk really made me think and realize I already encapsulated most stuff the correct way, not the OOP way :) but I will definitely keep an eye on it even more

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

While my initial impression of godot was super good and UE (with C++) mid - it flipped 180deg now where i really start to like "the ue way" and c++ while gdscript gives me flashbacks of js and python🥲

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

On holiday for 3 days now and im already playing around in godot & unreal a bit just to get a feel for those different engines😅

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

Here's a short video with motion - each button has different blur and refraction
Adding interactions might be a fun next step🤔

[Mattia Metry @MSymetry]

I know ppl hate on the liquid glass design - especially cause of the horrible readability... but still thought it would be a fun little challenge to try an recreate a very simple version of it in unity :)
Might work on it some more cause it was pretty fun!