Doug Binks

Gamedev, making Avoyd Voxel Editor & Game with and open source tech with @juulcat.

https://www.enkisoftware.com/about#dougbinks

Runtime Compiled C++, enkiTS, ex-physicist ex-AAA. He/Him.

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2025-05-25 07:48:36

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@nprofile…d23x There's NanoVG https://github.com/memononen/nanovg or you could use the drawing parts of Dear ImGui and ignore the rest.

2025-04-05 18:48:28

Despite looking like Tron, the new trailer was giving me Doom vibes. Then the end credits showed "Music by NiN" which explains it.
#Tron #Doom #NiN
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/go-back-to-the-grid-in-tron-ares-trailer/

2025-03-19 16:53:28

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@nprofile…t3wn I'm not sure the case can be made that they are utterly dissimilar. Certainly the political actors and systems are different, but rising income inequalities, aging populations, and social media are similar factors in US, UK and FR elections (I vote in and follow UK/FR elections).
So I think there are similar influences we can look at, though there are other (possibly larger) factors, such as the Tory shit show in UK and Macron being out of touch with real people.

2025-03-19 10:22:25

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@nprofile…t3wn David Shor does mention that this is a global phenomena, and mentions the recent UK elections (which a male left wing party leader won), but it would have been nice to see them analyse differences between US vs UK information to see if the data backs up their conclusions.

2025-03-17 15:32:10

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@nprofile…jvvf You probably need to add a CNAME record for www, either pointing to your own domain or the host (you might need to look up their help).

2025-03-17 14:57:03

@nprofile…jvvf is http://dearimgui.com/ down? The link to the FAQ in imgui.h doesn't work for me.

2025-03-16 13:55:53

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@nprofile…gvnm That does seem very similar. In my case the pages are octree data rather than textures but the idea appears very similar.

2025-03-16 13:03:37

Just realised that in my software GPU wavefront pathtracing I could implement efficient virtual memory by storing any 'page miss' paths and then sort by page, load/unload pages and process the relevant paths.
Does anyone know if this has been done before?
#GPU #PathTracing #Avoyd #RayTracing

2025-03-11 14:59:27

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@nprofile…gvnm @nprofile…xlxn Also recall it's important to stay still a few seconds to let any geometry or object streaming finish, plus physics constraints to settle down. Otherwise you might get IK issues getting out of bed.

2024-12-12 17:05:13

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@nprofile…slxn When you initialize a member when declaring it this is initialization, so happens before the constructor function body. More info here:
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/data_members#Member_initialization

2024-12-12 16:32:38

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@nprofile…slxn Any downside would depend on what the initializers for your members/base classes do. In some cases the compiler might be able to optimize these out, but not always.

2024-12-12 16:28:52

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@nprofile…slxn Sadly the compiler cannot deduce intention as the language is defined this way:
"Before the compound statement that forms the function body of the constructor begins executing, initialization of all direct bases, virtual bases, and non-static data members is finished. "
From https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constructor (this isn't an official reference but it's pretty decent).

2024-12-12 15:41:44

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@nprofile…slxn Technically doing this in the body of the class does not perform initialization but is instead assignment. Using the body of the constructor you can't initialize a const member nor any members which do not have default constructors.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/640/606/622/795/455/original/dd4798bb9d9a9161.png

2024-09-18 10:13:42

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@npub1ykd…6j2y Not to be confused with the ExCel Stage.

2024-05-24 09:42:46

A good reason to use colour rather than color in your code is that colour has the same number of letters as both albedo and normal so you can align your code better.

2024-04-26 17:30:03

A quick blogpost about the new GPU path tracer in Avoyd Voxel Editor.
#Voxel #Render #RayTrace #PathTrace #Avoyd #Editor
https://www.enkisoftware.com/devlogpost-20240426-1-Voxel-GPU-Rendering-in-Avoyd-0.21

2024-04-11 14:44:04

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@npub1qw9…r0g7 Nice! Typo in your URL, it should be:
https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/releases/tag/v1.90.5

2024-01-18 19:19:54

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@npub1ykd…6j2y ISPC uses:
https://github.com/ispc/ispc/blob/a988515bd684be58dcf2ac4318bb55318dc6cb76/check_isa.cpp#L48C13-L72

2024-01-13 12:21:19

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@npub10fm…x0qg Seems to be the same results as bing, with the same issues (de-indexing of sites based on unknowable criteria).

2024-01-10 10:52:16

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@npub1qw9…r0g7 @npub1jwm…5yrg Wow, thanks for spotting & many thanks to whoever at Massive Entertainment put in the effort to add that!

2024-01-09 11:04:35

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@npub1hx6…ayr3 @npub1qw9…r0g7 Would something like the NanoVG's font (fontstash+effects) and vector capabilities on top of Dear ImGui be enough or do you also need text shaping (Harfbuzz)?

2024-01-08 10:11:23

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@npub1ykd…6j2y An advanced technique I think is worth mentioning is that the response to exercise for most muscles is highest at maximum stretch. This makes it difficult to exercise all the quads fully with squatting as the hip joint bending decreases the distance for the rectus femoris muscle. This can lead to knee issues (or inversely, exercising it correctly can fix knee problems).
Leaning back (with arms in front for balance) when squatting can help, as can reverse nordics.
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2023-12-18 18:51:27

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@npub1ykd…6j2y @npub1znz…8l64 For loading MC files do try my permissively licensed lightweight C and C++ Minecraft Importer library enkiMI:
https://github.com/dougbinks/enkiMI

2023-10-03 10:04:12

I need help finding any articles / blog posts etc. on performance differences when switching a compute task (in this case ray casting) from fragment shader to compute shader.
I recall seeing a good article on memory access pattern differences and using tiles in the compute shader to improve performance but I can't find the link in my notes.
#graphics #RayTracing

2023-08-04 18:12:00

Another isometric render from #Avoyd #Voxel Editor, this time the #Minecraft map Mattupolis.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/110/832/685/629/752/104/original/7aa5769f9f6476e4.jpg

2023-07-19 11:24:43

Everytime I do a render of a map like this one (Minecraft map Greenfield City) I get a hankering to make a top down 2d game...
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/110/740/486/623/485/947/original/5a5d16dc1093a450.jpeg