Amini Allight / is on Nostr

Solo game developer, VR enthusiast. Developing LambdaMod, a free and open source multiplayer game with VR support

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2024-09-08 09:41:01

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@npub1jvr…jrkp Didn't realize it was unusual, I'm not sure if I learned it somewhere or just made it up

2024-08-31 08:41:24

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@npub1sld…63kn In C++11 there are functions std::atomic<T>::load() and std::atomic<T>::store(), are those what you want?
Not sure about C11

2024-08-05 17:51:08

This latest non-VR Half-Life leak worries me a little... Between this and Deadlock Valve can't have many devs spare to develop launch titles for Deckard
Which makes me wonder if Deckard is coming at all, they must know it's dead in the water without a new game
#virtualreality #vr #halflife #valve

2024-07-29 19:46:16

By the way, I've released a new project: ff2hls
It uses FFmpeg to stream media files from your local machine to web browsers, video players and VRChat via HLS!
https://github.com/amini-allight/ff2hls
#opensource #softwaredevelopment #freesoftware
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2024-07-26 15:01:05

Taking a break from writing audio tutorials this week to instead write about game design!
This time I'm dissecting the famous level from Half-Life: Alyx (and another similar segment from a very different game...) to learn more about what makes horror tick
https://amini-allight.org/post/the-anatomy-of-half-life-alyxs-jeff
#gamedev #gamedesign #halflife
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2024-07-19 18:53:25

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@npub1z9m…p50f Oops! Good catch thank you
If you're wondering it's meant to say part 5 lol

2024-07-19 17:17:43

I've released a game audio programming tutorial covering how to handle your player character being able to move or rotate, which most games need 😉
https://amini-allight.org/post/game-audio-programming-tutorial-part-5
#gamedev #tutorial #gameaudio #indiedev #opensource
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2024-07-12 18:30:40

I've released a new tutorial
If you've ever wanted to learn how to make sounds 3D in your game without relying on an engine/library to do this is for you!
https://amini-allight.org/post/game-audio-programming-tutorial-part-4
#gamedev #indiedev #opensource #gameaudio
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2024-06-29 18:21:40

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@npub12y2…d70d Is that a different but similar feature on Chrome? I'm using Firefox and I'm 99% sure this is part of the pages themselves

2024-06-27 19:28:02

What browser extensions etc. are people using to get rid of this thing? It feels like every single website has it nowadays and I must waste minutes a week closing them all
#firefox #web
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2024-06-16 05:55:27

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@npub1z9m…p50f For me it's about rigidity, having to add a new object initialization and pass it through to the right places every time I wanna do another render kinda sucks

2024-06-14 19:55:26

This week I've made a tutorial exploring what modern Vulkan with all the latest features (bindless, dynamic rendering and shader objects) might look like!
(Don't worry, first part of the audio tutorial is coming next week)
https://amini-allight.org/post/vknew-modern-vulkan-with-descriptor-indexing-dynamic-rendering-and-shader-objects
#gamedev #vulkan #graphicsprogramming
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2024-06-12 19:52:00

Windows C++ developers: what's the easiest way to build a simple .cpp file?
I'm writing tutorial examples with Linux build scripts like:
g++ -o example example.cpp
And I want something similar for Windows (hard mode: no cygwin/msys2)
#cpp #programming #windows

2024-05-28 17:18:57

Stacking up 4 magnifying glasses on a >500 ppi phone screen almost makes me wonder why we stopped supporting this for VR lol, visually I'm not sure it's any worse than my Index
#vr

2024-05-22 16:58:03

Is there interest in a game audio programming tutorial?
Writing my sound system took ages and a lot of the things I ended up doing (dynamic occlusion, head-related transfer function, effects with custom frequency responses) aren't well documented for game devs anywhere
#gamedev #indiedev