That strategy is very common. Canva gives students free access and focuses on being student-friendly so that they won’t bother to use any of the tools used in the real world. Now, those students tell their managers about how much easier it is (it just has less options and looks shinier) and how they can’t understand anything else and companies start paying for licenses.
What evaluation setup lets the thing being tested see the test results and gives access to the test source code?!
Slop evaluating slop.
The Nintendo controller has the same button names as the Xbox (defacto standard PC controller) but different placement. If buttons are mapped based on physical position but using Xbox glyphs, Nintendo buttons are called out incorrectly. If buttons are mapped based on name, Nintendo buttons are called out correctly but the controls are positioned weird and displayed wrong if displayed on screen in button layout. PS controllers have no chance of making sense when dealing with lazy devs.
It’s super easy to implement multiple sets of glyphs and mappings for the three main controller types. Pretty much anything else is a clone of those three. I have no clue why so many don’t bother.
Option 2 has a history of using visitor systems to DDOS people they have grudges against and doctoring ‘archived’ pages to create false history.
Archive Today/IS/PH is pretty effective at bypassing paywalls, but they are a malicious actor.
In case anyone thinks it’s odd that a webcomic author is writing about drivers, he’s very involved in the open-source art scene. The default brushes in Krita are designed by him, for example.
He was directing his Twitter followers to create accounts to vote yes on a proposal to set up an official project to take back Wikipedia from the Cultural Marxists. The ban is well deserved.
Rectangular area lights can create softer shadows and more realistic reflections for your scenes.
In real time rendering, the first half of this is false. The shadow casting for area lights is identical to point lights. They aren’t casting from everywhere on the surface of the area, just from the center point.
They may be handling it correctly when baking.
If you have a dynamic container, it is sized based on its contents and everything inside of it is positioned based on everything else. If you move something, that impacts everything around it, including the container itself. There are workarounds like having an invisible placeholder and a separate graphical element, but they aren’t user-friendly.
Offset transforms allow you to leave the logical version of a thing in place while moving the visual. The demo in the release notes has a grid of icons which get bigger and move when you mouse over them, which would have reflowed the other icons or resized the box before.
The claim that it was removed is false. From the Google code of conduct:
And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!
Might be a good application of viewports. Run the TileMapLayer in a viewport with the shader on an object in that same viewport. Render the viewport to another object in your normal space.
To do what you are trying to do, you need the TileMapLayer to already be rendered before the shader runs. That’s called a post processing effect. There are two routes, the easy and the hard way:
Easy: Put an object in front of the camera, covering the whole view. Put your screen-reading shader on it. It needs to be sorted on top of the things you want it to shade. This is conceptually similar to what you tried with 2b, but what matters is the sort order on screen, not the node structure.
Hard but better: Compositor effects. These are true post processing shaders that can be ran at various points in the rendering process. They require a bunch of boilerplate gdscript to run and use a slightly different shader language, but they are the proper method of doing post-fx. I don’t know if they work in 2D, however.
The Editor-in-Chief of the American Diabetes Association’s flagship journal was ejected and banned from the Association’s conference for handling out copies of an article from their journal. The Association blames security demands made by the Trump administration.
At no point in that email does Google say you have to add age verification. They are saying you might need to age-gate certain things if you want to comply with the law and they are rolling out a feature that allows you to age-gate things without having to do the verification yourself.
I’m seeing some applications for it as an easy-to-implement context-aware OCR scanner for things that have consistent content in wildly inconsistent formats. Think lists of open invoices from suppliers in a thousand different for-printing layouts, plus some just being screenahots from their systems. The AI system can process those and output a consistent list, which can then be matched against a database the old-fashioned way.
That’s the only practical use I’ve found.
Starbucks controls their supply chain. If they wanted to, they could have their manufacturers put RFID tags on sleeves of cups, bottles, etc and automate inventory with perfect accuracy. Instead, they spent way more money on an AI solution, then had to abandon it because it doesn’t work.
BitD is extremely focused on thief/assassin gameplay. It’s nicely setting-agnostic, but it isn’t a system suited to rural gameplay.
Cyanoacrylate was formulated specifically to bond well with human skin. Liquid stitches.
Fickity-fuck Fickity-fuck
The first part of this article, the Apple is enforcing X rule in Y situation part, is pretty interesting. Then it veers into crazy town by claiming that the software versioning and static release model is dead.
This is made in Inkarnate, which can look really nice. A lot of maps have either no shading or really heavy handed shading, but OP has found a tasteful middle ground.