Tim Jones

Burst compiler tech lead at @unity. Hacking on Shader Playground and HLSL Tools in my spare time. Opinions are my own.

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@TheCodeTherapy @bgolus @iquilezles @XorDev Thanks for the heads-up! I just took a look at the Shader Playground site and it seems to be working for me - is it working for you now?

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@mirror2mask You’ll be missed! Good luck with whatever is next.

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@KaosLisa @jaytwotwit I don’t! That sounds entertaining though, unless of course he does that every single time… does he do it every single time? 😊

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

A few more $5 sponsors would get me to break-even on the Azure hosting bill, which would make this more sustainable for the long term (hosting bill is £70/month, current sponsors generously provide ~£50 of that).

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

Want to try out the new Metal Shader Converter without installing anything?

Now you can, on Shader Playground https://t.co/XiZRXO3L7j

[Gokhan Avkarogullari @gavkar]

We also released new developer tools: Game Porting Toolkit and Metal Shader Converter. The links to the downloads can be accessed from here: https://t.co/oJfXBcJ18f.

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

Occasional reminder - Shader Playground is possible because of the generous support of these people: @aras_p, @sheredom, @KornnerStudios, @TheAnimator.

If Shader Playground is useful to you please consider adding your name to that prestigious list :) https://t.co/QdBR5O7YSN

[Sebastian Schöner @s4schoener]

Let's talk about some of the recent improvements to Unity! I'm not talking about the big, flashy things you already know about but the small changes we were able to sneak into the changelog. I'll look at 2023.1 beta stuff but most of it also backported as far back as possible :)

[David Li @thecpppm]

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 Preview 2 now has additional integrations with Unreal Engine. Unleash the full potential of your game creation with UE Log Streaming, UHT Code Analysis and HLSL Tools by @_tim_jones_ . #UnrealEngine #cpp #gamedev https://t.co/zZgmQC7BH1

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@mlrdev Thanks Marcelo! You've been an important part of this too; you helped a lot with my questions about "fun" parts of HLSL syntax, back in the day. It's 7 years since we first chatted about HLSL parsers, times goes quickly!

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

Please excuse the own-horn-tooting: a thing I made is now part of Visual Studio 😊

https://t.co/AJrGRyvJUs

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@Alecazam123 No, just Visual Studio for Windows. Many of the underlying text editor APIs are now shared, which is great, but there's still enough different that it would require specific and non-trivial effort to support VSMac.

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@jaytwotwit You still can, there are way more in that category than this category 😊

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

Hooray for English grammar ambiguity.

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@jaytwotwit Well done! Any tips? I’d love to have a graph that looked that like but… I also never feel motivated to put any effort into it ;)

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@deplinenoise If you are a tennis player maybe consider games as a… oh wait that doesn’t follow the format

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@jaytwotwit You actually made it to a live snooker tournament?! Awesome!

[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

@b33rdy @jaytwotwit I feel your pain. For two years now I’ve had to remove my glasses to squint at small printed text.

[Josh Peterson @petersonjm1]

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[Tim Jones @_tim_jones_]

Are you a software engineer based in Copenhagen/Denmark and interested in working on the Burst compiler? Come join our Burst team at @unity, we are hiring! Prior experience with compilers is not required. https://t.co/VIWIHHhE6E