Sid

AR/Games Engineer, Artist, scrub of a writer.

Aspiring hermit

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

The "whiteboard defense:" I should be able to pull you aside at any moment and ask you to explain any customer-facing system you've shipped. You should be able to clearly explain how it works and defend the decisions you made. This is my benchmark for responsible AI usage.

I don't expect line-level familiarity with the code. I don't care if you remember the exact function name or implementation detail. You may not even know it. I don't care.

But if I ask "why did you do X instead of Y?", "what happens if this actor behaves maliciously?", "what data structure did you use here and why?", or "where does this fail?" you should be able to answer confidently.

For PoCs, demos, experiments, whatever: I don't care. Generate 100% of it and understand none of it. Speed over quality every time in those specific scenarios.

But if you're shipping customer-facing work, you can't be shipping things you don't understand at a high level.

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

@johnowhitaker Basically same here wrt code and research.

game engine/art software MCP+skills is suuuper useful though, there is a ton of complexity there we can finally let go of thanks to MCP & skills. I expect there’s even more to automate in less complex workflows like finance/HR/etc

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

@InsanityBit Christ I almost forgot about tabs vs spaces

[Luiz Carlos @luizcbasilio]

O físico abstrai sua ciência da natureza, esquece-se desse detalhe importante e, quando a natureza age de acordo com as leis abstraídas, impressiona-se. A aranha não precisa “conhecer a geometria” da mesma forma que nenhum ser humano precisa calcular vetor e ângulo de um movimento retilíneo uniformemente variado para simplesmente dar um passo à frente.

[Krysidian @krysidian]

Dynamic Hornet - A FREE #Blender Rig

After months it's finally out, jam-packed with helpful features that will hopefully aid you with animation!

Easy cloak
Free-form Eyes
Outline and Shading Styles
Pose Library
and MORE!

❗️Link is in my Bio❗️

#b3d #Silksong #geometrynodes

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

@krysidian I’m sorry what the fuck?? This is insane tier thanks for sharing!

[Sonivor @SonivorAni]

@DmawDev here's mine ✋

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

@SonivorAni @DmawDev Solid hand topology ty for the ref 🙏

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

@Niph_Nareth @Mavoly_ God I love the indie world, always some random high level magic around the corner

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

AI is a calculator.

Was anyone sad about using calculators after learning addition and subtraction? Or graphing calculators in calc classes?

Learn the thing, then use the tool that does the thing at scale so your brain can do unrecorded intelligence 🫡

But learn the thing

[Sean Geiger @sean_geiger]

When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old. Every file had a comment at the top with the date and the author’s name. You’d open a file and read through it, sometimes touching a feature no one had touched in a decade.

Everything felt very permanent, like a house made of bricks. Everyone who made a brick put their name on it before slotting it into the house. Even in a massive company, you were proud of your bricks. Each one fit so satisfyingly into the bricks around it.

When someone was renovating a room you had worked on years ago, they’d reach out and say, “I found this brick with your name on it. Can you tell me what it was doing here?”

Sometimes old bricks would get taken out during a renovation, but they were usually kept in a pile in the corner to reuse in the future.

Now you can will whole houses and neighborhoods into existence. You don’t even see the bricks go in. They just tumble in from the sky. You walk into the new house and wave your hands to push walls back, throw up a chimney, or drop in a kitchen.

It's so fucking cool. But you forget what a brick feels like.

And it’s hard to know how sad to be about that. The houses are better, they go up faster, and building them increasingly feels like magic.

Still, every once in a while you miss holding a brick.

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

@Niph_Nareth @Mavoly_ Is this *not* 3D??

[Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen]

TOON seems nicer than JSON. Gives the element count and structure first, and then lists the values. Faster to load and much less repeated info. Anybody tried it?

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

Realized I forgot to set custom normals while implementing the shader in Godot, I give you rembrandt lighting! #indiegames #animestyle

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

@Raxxmus Guilty gear does this too, there’s a vid by Noggi on YouTube on how they’re doing it as well as other painted map techniques!

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

Character exploration so I can figure out how to model him for animation

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

@AerthasVeras Oh nice dude, I’m working thru the shader rn. Would’ve been fun to figure the math out but thanks for posting

[島田フミカネ @humikane]

トロン様好き

可動ものっぽく

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

@humikane Wowwwww I would love to make this in 3d

[Sid @SidsCreativTech]

Same for @tacobell (it’s me)

[doxie @doxie_gay]

arby’s has never gone out of business because each location has a customer that is single-handedly financing 85% of their total business

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

I don't give a fuck what your marketing guy says. Put the login button on the top right of your god damn homepage.