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2024-11-22 17:04:07

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@nprofile…rwa8 It's a delicate balance to preserve Bosca's simplicity, as I get requests (which are sometimes almost angry) or complaints that it can't do this or that — stuff that the sorts of LMMS or, I dunno, FL Studio can.
But MIDI export and import are already a thing, they're just slightly more broken than I'd like. And the original implementation made some assumptions which were not necessarily correct. Which is fine, but demands that I really look into various specs and understand them.

2024-11-22 16:33:12

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@nprofile…rwa8 Yeah, a friend of mine shared with me a MIDI of an Opeth song to stress test the importer. It's not something that Bosca can reasonably support, but still an informative data point for debugging!
And each track in this file has its own time signature...

2024-11-22 15:05:55

It's day 2 of me trying to understand time signatures in music, time signatures in MIDI/SMF, time signatures in GDSiON, and what time signatures would mean in Bosca Ceoil terms...
My code comments become larger and larger...
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2024-11-22 15:00:23

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@nprofile…d52j Yeah, this is one of the best things about it, of course, being FOSS! And, as far as I know, not attached to any corporation or government agency. People should totally sponsor WerWolv for his amazing work

2024-11-21 15:56:19

Man, I love ImHex! It makes exploring binary files simply fun (and, to be honest, addictive). I made the decision to use a binary format in Glasan partially because ImHex enabled me to read and debug such files with ease.
Here I'm back at debugging FastTracker 2's XM support in Bosca...
PS. By the way, if anyone needs the pattern definition for XM, I put it in a gist on GitHub here:
https://gist.github.com/YuriSizov/e268372aa30aa7aeb279cc7a5809b250
Maybe I should PR it to the ImHex repo when I have some time.
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2024-11-18 20:15:41

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@nprofile…39ss Yeah, I found out it’s loaded with a lot of CLI tools that Godot has, import included, even though there is no point in that, and a fix would be a two line change.
And yeah, it would make sense to at least postpone it in the editor itself while the import is still going.

2024-11-18 13:55:30

It might not look like much, but it's the first feature contribution to Bosca Ceoil Blue made by a new contributor!
In 3.1 it will become trivial to randomize the instrument to look for the one that you like 🎸 Of course, it works with undo/redo too!
Thanks @nprofile…j709 <3
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2024-11-18 12:56:55

I would it like, if at some point this wasn't the expected first time experience for people opening an existing project in Godot. Half of it is broken because the extension is not imported yet. Which breaks all the scripts, in turn.
There are a few changes in the engine which have to happen:
1. Separate the import routine from the editor loading logic. Make sure it always runs first.
2. Don't load the main scene by default during import.
3. Perform import from the PM for newly added projects.
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2024-11-15 17:04:18

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@nprofile…8ljv Honestly, lambda literals in GDScript suck when you put them directly into function arguments. Readability just plummets. Can be okay standalone, but if there are other arguments or, worse, other lambdas, it's just very unclear where what ends.
So yeah, I guess it's just the language design.

2024-11-15 15:52:16

Hey, musicheads! Trying to clean up some voice names in the synthesizer, and this one got me really confused.
🎸 "Dra-spi-Dis.G."
It's a distortion guitar alright, but what the hell is dra and spi? Any guesses?
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2024-11-15 15:23:32

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@nprofile…8ljv Out of curiosity, what syntax sugar? It's already as simplified as it can be, given GDScript's syntax (i.e. if doing some fat arrow lamba was possible, it would've been done this way to begin with).

2024-11-15 11:27:49

Last year to coincide with Meteora's anniversary Linkin Park were uploading dozens of their demos to YouTube using AI-generated visuals.
This year they made a point of how the cover and promo materials for their new album are made with real photography. Same seems to be true for new video uploads, which feature 3D scans and visual effects.
Love to see it! ❤️ They are too creatively rich to have their legacy be tarnished by that kind of fad.

2024-11-14 18:45:56

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By the way, do you read alt texts? I try to always add them to every picture (or video) that I post per what the platform allows, and I try to make double use of it by combining a description with some extra explanation where possible.
It adds quite a bit of time to make every post, but worth it?

2024-11-14 18:01:49

I heard not everyone has hi-DPI screens yet 👁️ Shame!
My successful endeavor to rescale Glasan FX to render at a more natural scale at 100% inspired me to do the same with Bosca Ceoil Blue. Went much smoother here too, I had no reason to be afraid, it turns out!
Look at how tiny and cute it is!
#godotengine #ui
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2024-11-13 19:38:38

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@npub1cl0…ratj No worries! And I wasn’t particularly waiting, rather there is just one of me in me, and I was working on other projects in summer and autumn :) But improvements to the synth are also related to Bosca, as they help me learn more about its inner workings, so I can plan for new potential features.
This was the last batch of changes I wanted to make to it, though, so now it’s full on Bosca again!

2024-11-13 18:51:46

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@npub1cl0…ratj You put "eventually" there like you're waiting for something 🙃 Anything In Bosca Blue bothering you in particular?
But to answer your question, yes, I'm working on Bosca again. Have a few reported bugs to fix, and a couple of minor changes to make. Will also probably look into having an official web release.

2024-11-13 18:44:38

I keep doing incremental changes to the synth that powers both the new Bosca Ceoil and my own Glasan FX — GDSiON! 🎛️
That includes fixing bugs (including ones that I inherited from the original Flash version) and exposing more to scripting.
New beta is out:
https://github.com/YuriSizov/gdsion/releases/tag/0.7-beta5
This may be rather niche, but if your game needs a real-time synthesizer, I'd say GDSiON has proven itself in the wild already!
#godotengine

2024-11-13 16:40:12

Reading the specs for Yamaha sound chips to try and untangle some of the more obscure and less tested features of GDSiON, I quickly realize why so many coders that I know are interested in synthesizers as a hobby.
It takes a similar skillset to control these chips, but producing sounds is more fun!
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2024-11-12 20:23:29

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@npub1c5y…32q8 Yeah, I'm curious as well. My GUI apps seem to work as well as the editor at least.
I don't really have a use case for using it like that. Maybe if I didn't have means to run my tools on Linux natively, but I do. So yeah, this is just a curiosity.

2024-11-12 18:58:03

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@npub1c5y…32q8 Hmm, not really sure what the connection here is. Godot is compiled natively to run on Android. WSL, on the other hand, is not a native environment, as you mention, and its capabilities to passthrough GPU and render GUI are somewhat limited.

2024-11-12 18:20:41

Did you know that Godot runs full-on GUI in WSL?
Launched it without the headless option by accident while debugging and got a pleasant surprise! 🐧
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2024-11-12 15:31:15

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FOSS is based on cooperation and trust. And we tend to place some measure of trust in open projects, because "they can be validated by everyone". (This is dangerous, but that's another story.)
A malicious actor can use that.
There are plenty of repositories on GH that have no code. Just a readme and nothing else. However, their releases still have a "Source code" entry and you may assume that they chose to provide the sources this way.
They didn't. Nobody can validate their code. Be careful.

2024-11-12 15:26:37

I noticed people being misled by these two files that they see in GitHub releases (not their fault).
While they are listed beside the files provided by the developer and titled "Source code", they are not put there by the dev and they may not contain source code.
Each release is anchored to a git tag. These entries are added automatically by GH and they only contain a zip of the repo at that tag.
Crucially: if the repo contains no source code, then these files contain no source code either!
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2024-11-11 18:37:32

Since Godot doesn't want to yield its precious runtime errors to scripts, my testing system just runs Godot from Godot. In a for-loop.
Mine errors, mine!
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2024-11-11 12:21:20

I hate Unreal's temporal smearing...
Was playing Caravan SandWitch this weekend and it's such a pretty and stylized game. But every time a lightly or brightly colored object moves in front of a dark background, every time something starts or stops emitting light — the temporal smearing is everywhere.
I don't want every AA-AAA game in the next 10-15 years to have this smearing.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/464/283/712/555/390/original/3bf033bca9c3e45a.mp4

2024-11-09 09:52:03

Got inspired this week to update my personal website, so I'm finally not ashamed to share it everywhere. As a bonus, you are now greeted with my lovely mug! 🥸
https://humnom.net
Having your own place on the internet, free from the influence of the powers that be, is more important than ever, IMO.
It's that "source of truth" about yourself that is much easier to keep around than a profile on some social media platform. Not perfect, not absolutely free, but much better.

2024-11-08 18:54:59

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@npub15xm…f2wc I'm leading my own private rebellion by still using it with some projects! But yeah, as the OP says, the tooling is non-existent and this fact makes me decide in favor of git most of the time.
At one point I even wanted to make a VCS extension for Godot to support hg, but the way the Mercurial executable is made proved that to be an unreasonably difficult task.

2024-11-08 16:42:26

The absolute state of Mercurial tools in editors and IDEs makes me a dull boy. Such a powerful and easy to learn distributed system that lost the arms race because it wasn't "cool".

2024-11-08 16:42:26

The absolute state of Mercurial tools in editors and IDEs makes me a dull boy. Such a powerful and easy to learn distributed system that lost the arms race because it wasn't "cool".

2024-11-06 16:31:35

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@npub1hqa…r4jn Hope the article isn't too heavy :) Or too abstract for that matter...

2024-11-06 11:12:30

I noticed that more than a thousand people read me on Masto now... Thank you!
I mostly post on Bluesky these days, especially if it's something transient and random. But I don't want to ignore you all! My regular updates are not going anywhere, don't worry, but perhaps you want to read more from me? Anything in particular?
Just to recap, I'm an experienced software developer and a veteran Godot maintainer, who makes his own tools now. I remade Bosca Ceoil and made Glasan FX. UI is my jam!

2024-11-05 20:51:12

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I also went ahead and extracted all the cool widgets into a separate repo. So if you want to use them or just poke them for research, it's there for you, on a silver platter 😎
https://github.com/YuriSizov/glasan-fx-widgets

2024-11-05 20:49:26

I wanted to share my approach designing the UI of Glasan FX with shaders, so I wrote an article 📖
Enjoy reading!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/shader-styled-ui-115425437
#godotengine #ui

2024-11-01 15:21:04

Function / Form in Glasan FX
https://yurisizov.itch.io/glasan-fx
#ui #design
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2024-10-31 10:51:10

First update for Glasan FX is out, focusing on usability!
The GUI is now appropriately scaled, and you can control it with a new setting. Just look at how tiny it is on my screen by default! Also, hotkeys!
https://yurisizov.itch.io/glasan-fx/devlog/825512/glasan-fx-gets-smaller-and-gets-shortcuts
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2024-10-31 01:11:43

After a lot of work today I managed to reduce the size of all elements in Glasan FX, making it fit well on standard DPI 1080p screens.
The picture on the right is at 125% scale, but at a comparable physical size! At 100% it is small enough to work on less fancy devices than my laptop 🙃
This was something that I couldn't comfortably do in Bosca before, where due to the same workflow problem the default scale was off. I resorted to downscaling tricks, which don't yield the best results.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/399/352/570/484/070/original/b8adc7508714961b.png

2024-10-29 23:46:02

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@npub1rfs…pqlz Thank you! Wait, scale UP? It's too small for you? 👀

2024-10-29 15:54:10

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It's FOSS, so you can just get it from GitHub and do whatever! Contributions are welcome, and so is your support if you can afford it 💙
Link for nerds:
https://github.com/YuriSizov/glasan-fx
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2024-10-29 15:50:45

So I made a thing... 🎺 Say hello to Glasan FX, a small sound effects app!
It's beautiful, MIT, and totally free:
https://yurisizov.itch.io/glasan-fx
#audio #gamedev #gamejam

2024-10-26 21:28:34

I made some strange new pixels in Godot! They're kind of squishy...
#godotengine
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2024-07-11 13:29:07

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@npub12ks…6ymq Thank you so much, couldn't be here without you 😊

2024-04-13 13:34:38

🥁 GDSiON, the synth library for #GodotEngine, now comes pre-built! Nothing can stop you from giving it a try anymore :)
Note: This is not a stable release yet, so bugs can be expected. But it's perfectly usable! Check the demo project on the same page:
https://github.com/YuriSizov/gdsion/discussions/7
If you want to support the development of GDSiON, as well as my other upcoming projects, please consider leaving a pledge on my Patreon!
https://www.patreon.com/YuriSizov

2024-04-11 11:48:28

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@npub15nr…t8ej Creating a build of the interactive demo is a good idea!

2024-04-05 10:09:38

🌄 The hills are alive with the sound of music!
I invite everyone to try GDSiON, a software synthesizer GDExtension for #GodotEngine! Currently pre-alpha, but it has an interactive demo 🎹
https://github.com/YuriSizov/gdsion
The project is still WIP, and I'm looking for early testers and contributors. If you have experience contributing to Godot, you should feel right at home 😊
Read the full announcement here:
https://github.com/YuriSizov/gdsion/discussions/1

2023-12-21 16:52:17

🎁 You might want to unwrap this one! The first development snapshot of #GodotEngine 4.3 is available for public testing. Big rendering system rework, D3D12, editor and input improvements!..
Read more:
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-3-dev-1/

2023-10-23 13:04:36

🎊 Particles! #GodotEngine 4.2 comes with a lot of care for them, thanks to our #VFX champion @npub10wn…cqpg and her amazing work.
And here's a little update from Qbie about the state of Godot particles, and what their future holds:
https://godotengine.org/article/progress-report-state-of-particles/

2023-10-12 14:57:23

💎 After another 3 months of incredible work by our contributors, #GodotEngine 4.2 is ready for beta testing! So many things to highlight, I'll try to do it in a thread 👇
Read our full announcement:
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-2-beta-1/

2023-10-04 11:21:00

🧑‍🌾 As #GodotEngine 4.2 enters its feature freeze, we can finally harvest some more safe fixes from this dev cycle and put them into the 4.1.2 patch release. It's a lot of goodies, and it's all honest work by Godot contributors!
Read more:
https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-4-1-2/

2023-09-22 14:14:12

☀️ Summer was so nice, we forgot to publish more #GodotEngine 4.1 patch releases! No problem, easy to fix, just pick pick pick from a list of amazing contributions, et voila! Give this release candidate a test so we can publish 4.1.2 next week.
Read more:
https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-4-1-2-rc-1/

2023-09-19 11:24:33

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For the cover image we're featuring @npub1z2q…02kr and his fresh-out-of-the-oven 3D platformer starter kit for #Godot4! Follow Kenney, get the project for free, and start creating <3 Also consider sponsoring his work.
https://github.com/KenneyNL/Starter-Kit-3D-Platformer

2023-09-19 11:24:25

📰 You've read it in the papers, #GodotEngine is all around us! And in a little over a month Godot 4.2 is going to be out. For now, you can test the latest improvements in today's dev snapshot!
Read more:
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-2-dev-5/

2023-08-03 12:27:59

👖 If you're young at heart, you know patched jeans are the coolest! You know what else is cool? Patch releases for your favorite game engine! #GodotEngine 4.0.4 aims to bring more stability to devs staying on the 4.0 branch.
Read more:
https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-4-0-4/

2023-07-17 18:20:26

Polished like Barbie's 💅, powerful like an atomic 💣 — #GodotEngine 4.1.1 arrives to improve upon the recently released Godot 4.1 and rob you of excuses not to work on your game!
Read more:
https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-4-1-1/

2023-07-14 12:30:09

The thing I struggle to figure out in public work is how to deal with negative responses, drama, problematic situations.
My instinct tells me to get involved, to try reason and explain things that may be misunderstood. I find it very humane and what differentiates us from corpos. 💭🧵

2023-06-27 14:51:56

🤖 Release Candidate! 📡
#GodotEngine 4.1 RC 1 is out, ready for testing!
The merge pace slowed down, but the changes included are quite important regressions fixes, so we need your help to validate them. ..then we'll have 4.1 stable 🎉
Read more:
https://godotengine.org/article/release-candidate-godot-4-1-rc-1/
The illustration for this article comes from Katana Dragon, a game being developed in #Godot4 by Tsunoa Games. Follow them on social to get updates about this action-adventure RPG!

2023-06-08 10:43:34

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The illustration we picked for this release is from Halls of Torment, a roguelite action RPG by Chasing Carrots (https://www.chasing-carrots.com/) taking Steam by storm with its early access release! It's made with #Godot4, naturally, so check it out:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2218750/Halls_of_Torment/

2023-06-08 10:43:24

🪅 Get your poking sticks ready, because #GodotEngine 4.1 is ready for beta testing! It brings updates to the engine core, navigation, rendering, scripting, and more, while addressing many stability and performance issues.
Read our announcement and overview:
https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-1-beta-1/