Andy Nichols

Software Engineer at The Qt Company, in Oslo Norway. Qt developer with focus on graphics hardware for embedded Linux devices. | @[email protected]

[Eskil Abrahamsen Blomfeldt @eskilblomfeldt]

Beautiful anti-aliasing in Qt Quick Shapes coming with Qt 6.6

https://t.co/AYxNXLRx5f

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

@drgvond Hehe, what do you mean starting? They *are*

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

I spent the last week doing all my work on a M2 MacBook Air. Spec'ed up to a MBP level price (24GB/515GB/10GPU) however, but it does the business in a nicer form factor. I can recommend if you're considering it ;-)

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

Source code for the Qt Quick 3D OpenXR module is now available. Still very early, and everything is still up in the air regarding the API, but at least anyone can give it a try now https://t.co/gWjB9cdXGV

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

Who remembers this bad boy? There was a time when this was my primary phone if you can believe that 📞🤓

[Lars Knoll (@[email protected]) @LarsKnoll]

Qt 6.2 is out today. Read all about it in my blog post below. #qtdev https://t.co/p6VKyQ94kp

[QUIt Coding @QUItCoding]

Take a deep dive into new #QtQuick3D particles and you may bump into this ocean spider... 😱🕷️But fear not, her mystical dust is not toxic! #QtDev

[Volker Hilsheimer (passive here, active on bsky) @vhilsheimer]

We've not always aced the balance between our passion for Open Source and our believe that it is possible to make the development of #Qt a profitable, sustainable business.

We're looking for someone that can help us with that challenge!

https://t.co/UnhgXLVweR

[JoaoDeus @joaodeusm]

@qtproject been playing around with #QtQuick3D here's a game demo https://t.co/dxHxmOldLg maybe you should advertise qt more also as a game plataform 😀

[Przemyslaw Nogaj @2_b_3]

Ok, I was really determined to build it(even dropped the second PC back to the office to do that in meanwhile), but just today @qtproject made my day and released Qt 6.1 Beta1! I can confirm that 3d particles are working! #qtdev try it yourself! Kudos for @QUItCoding!

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

Cool stuff coming to QtQuick3D already in 6.1: https://t.co/wy4HjJNqWq

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

@CarlKDE Good point, now that I think about it I don't think the format itself was documented, but it is a CBOR based format:
https://t.co/3vhDEdYhpM

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

Finally a new blog post after what seems like forever. Big things coming in 6.0 in Qt Quick 3D #qtdev https://t.co/h4si4WmFFA

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

@2_b_3 Yes :-) The process has begun, expect it next year.

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

@gilhagi We have WasdController in the QtQuick3D.Helpers module. https://t.co/AJPLTOvfHc But it doesn't do a good job of handling multitouch area. I just wanted the dual stick style controls for the above demo like I see in many mobile 3d games, but handling touch is a bit more involved.

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

Tested QtQuick3D 6.0 on iOS last week (using Metal to render). It works really nice on the iPad Pro at 120Hz, here is a video of the glTF2 samples running there (bugs included since we're still pre-release😋): https://t.co/a0qo6oP66m

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

@gilhagi Yes I totally agree. I wrote this janky ass one for the video yesterday and you can see it doesn’t work that great. Hehe

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

@2_b_3 Hehe, can’t break Widgets now can we 🙈😝

[Laszlo Agocs @alpqr]

Seems doc-snapshots has updated its content, which provides an excellent opportunity to get a sneak peek at some of Qt 6.0's upcoming new graphics features. More docs for other new stuff coming soon. #qtdev
https://t.co/wRSs5I332o
https://t.co/AN1G0YeaWP
https://t.co/LH1uLdRENY

[Andy Nichols @nezticle]

@gilhagi @alpqr It's possible to use QtQuick3D along with QQuickRenderControl to render directly to the native texture types of all the RHI backends (including OpenGL textures): https://t.co/UTBQP5Uts0 I used that for my OpenXR demo.