Robert Swain @swainrob

Software Engineer @Spotify. ❤️ software, audiovisual experiences, technology, science, animals, nature. Opinions are mine. Personal account. He/him/they/them Stockholm Joined August 2011

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Robert Swain @swainrob

3 months ago

@ProfBrianCox saw your Emergence tour tonight. Encompassing, precise, wonderful, beautiful, fascinating, dense, awe inspiring, overwhelming, deeply moving, thought provoking, and something I’ll remember for the rest of my life. An utter inspiration. Thank you

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Robert Swain @swainrob

6 months ago

@vladimirdesigns What impact does this have on compressed texture quality? I know block compression codecs for textures have a fixed number of bits per block of pixels, but noise is usually very difficult to compress so I wonder if the noise is well-preserved.

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Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen

7 months ago

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphi…

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Robert Swain @swainrob

7 months ago

@panoskarabelas I’m going to give Vogel a go to see how it performs. It sounds like an excellent alternative to have in the toolbox. :)

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Robert Swain @swainrob

7 months ago

@panoskarabelas I’ve found the filtering makes it very smooth with few samples. If you’re using TAA then somewhat noisy irregular sampling patterns are probably a better option but not everyone can nor wants to use TAA.

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Robert Swain @swainrob

7 months ago

@panoskarabelas A downside is that it’s very rigid in the sampling pattern and subsequent filtering so its radius can’t easily be adapted to use for PCSS

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Robert Swain @swainrob

7 months ago

@panoskarabelas Nope. It uses something like a box filter with smart sampling to leverage bilinear sampling, and Gaussian weighting of samples. It’s very effective at making smooth PCF with few samples in my experience. the-witness.net/news/2013/09/s…

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Robert Swain @swainrob

7 months ago

@SebAaltonen So cool! How many videos are these scenes?

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Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen

7 months ago

WebGPU terrain prototype - new build: - Two maps: Canyon and Mountain - Phone (portrait) friendly UI (+edit UI hides) - Release build (was debug build before) - WebGPU not supported error message (old browser) sebbbi.github.io/LimitedDetail/

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Robert Swain @swainrob

9 months ago

@NOTimothyLottes For what it’s worth, works at 60fps at 1254x705 on an iPhone 16 Pro Max.

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Robert Swain @swainrob

a year ago

@s4schoener Have you seen this video by TheCherno? youtu.be/EXgXMa5kapI?si…

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 out NOW on Steam ✨ @PounceLight

a year ago

Tiny Glade has won the "Best Art Direction" award at @Indie_Pearls 🧡 and the organizers have sent us this lovely trophy 🥹 Thank you!

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 out NOW on Steam ✨ @PounceLight

a year ago

Wooo! We just got an email from Valve that Tiny Glade is officially Steam Deck Verified 🎉🎉 P.S. Tiny Glade is now 20% off!

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BAFTA Games @BAFTAGames

a year ago

Let’s get technical, technical 🎶 The nominees for Technical Achievement are… ASTRO BOT BLACK MYTH: WUKONG CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 6 SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE II TINY GLADE WARHAMMER 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2 #BAFTAGamesAwards

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 out NOW on Steam ✨ @PounceLight

a year ago

This is pretty insane 😳😳

BAFTA Games @BAFTAGames

a year ago

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 out NOW on Steam ✨ @PounceLight

a year ago

We've added TGSR - our own image upscaling. We've optimized the default settings on Steam Deck for a better balance of performance, image clarity, and power use. The Deck now uses "TGSR Quality" by default, and an FPS limit of 30.

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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 out NOW on Steam ✨ @PounceLight

a year ago

New update is live! 🐑☂ We've gathered a variety of smaller improvements, and figured we could package them up into a full update :3 I started writing a summary of changes, but I think it's much better to see it all visually, so lemme give you a tour... 🧵

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Bevy Engine @BevyEngine

2 years ago

Bevy 0.15 is out now! It features Required Components, Entity Picking, Generalized Entity Animation, Animation Masks, Curves, Function reflection, Bevy Remote Protocol, VBAO, OIT, Chromatic Aberration, Fog volumes, Better Text, and more! bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-15

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Bevy Engine @BevyEngine

2 years ago

What do we need to do to get a Bevy engine category on itch.io? We've filled out itch.io/suggest-a-tool about once a year for about four years now. There are currently 395 games with the "bevy" tag on itch and many more without the tag.

leaf @ itch.io 🙌 @moonscript

2 years ago

Also if you haven't noticed, the autocomplete in the search bar now lets you quickly navigate to the browse page that shows all projects that have a game engine assigned: