Playing FF Tactics for the first time? Here’s a tip. Go to Mandalia Plain. You’re gonna spend 5 miserable hours having all your characters power up like goku next to a terrified bird or have them throw rocks at each other until they’re max level. This is the best game ever made btw.

is the speedtree store down, like, indefinitely? it's been a few days

modern rendering involves way more bulk material setup than is probably healthy; thankfully: toolbag

i like that my github contribution memorial has two warring sides (gh-skyline.pages.dev)

I've been slowly resurrecting an old GitHub grab-bag repository at github.com/trentpolack/.... The plan is to more actively work on systems and content that can be easily placed as standalone work in this repo for wider use.

yet another page that's basically just a landing page for me trentpolack.me

i don't know how i've gotten this far in life without Everything

this is voxel. she really likes bad religion

[sad honking]

As I’ve been building a 3D renderer with #WebGPU, once you get past the fundamentals, it becomes harder to find guidance. So I wrote a blog breaking down the minimal architecture I created, as well as covering basic #3D terminology like Geometry and Materials. whoisryosuke.com/blog/2025/st...

my favorite part of game development is the part where things just serendipitously work all at once lol

I'm continuously disappointed that Maya LT was abandoned; it was a perfect and affordable software package that provided so much day-to-day necessary functionality at a fraction of Maya's $250/month price point. I love Houdini and all, but there's just SOMEWHAT of a knowledge chasm there.

Physically-based rendering from first principles: imadr.me/pbr/?ref=dai...

i like this bleuje.com/physarum-exp...

i want this but as a web page i can muck with i need MORE DATA to always stare at

There's a few starter packs! bsky.app/starter-pack... and bsky.app/starter-pack...

I published an article on the software that's critical to my development process across code, content, basic OS operations, and more; My Solo GameDev Toolkit: peerlist.io/trentpolack/... Or if orange is more your thing trentpolack.com/blog/my-solo...

are there any good lists/recommendations/groups collating gamedevs on bluesky? i'm growing to like it but my feed is anemic.

I got tired of Unreal's debug drawing performance, so I made my own system today. Drawing +50M points just works now :) If you want to use it: github.com/VoxelPlugin/...

i don't like when i work on things and they get worse over time

excessive use of #regions is a crime

this is how i learn houdini

ban the word "supercharge"

i'm not going to be happy until it feels like my site is a relic of 2001 trentpolack.com

My Solo GameDev Toolkit -- I figured I'd write up some notes on the software I tend to use on a near-daily basis. trentpolack.com/blog/my-solo...

My Solo GameDev Toolkit -- I figured I'd write up some notes on the software I tend to use on a near-daily basis. trentpolack.com/blog/my-solo...

i can never sleep the night before doctor appointments so i focused on the important works to be done on a github profile github.com/trentpolack

americana land doodle

my side-project's progression thus far www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X2P...

there's not much here yet but i'm trying to resurrect the standalone public repo where I throw things that are nicely atomic in under MIT github.com/trentpolack/...

some skills have degraded over time as it turns out (from trentpolack.com/development-...)

my quest to get a low poly vertex color bake took a turn

medium officially recognizes me as an author, it's the little things

still an absolute clutch of a 60s first impression www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8XT...

I've had a bit of downtime so I gave my site its every-five-or-six-year redesign: trentpolack.com It's got stuff! It's the primary home for the blog now, I added a couple of galleries, and a NEWS WALL It's not perfect yet by any means but it's gotten to the point where I'm just noodling on pixels.

Teach a Man to Fish trentpolack.com/blog/teach-a...

the absolute hardest thing about the site redesign has been trying to fill it with dynamic content that doesn't need my guiding hand I landed on... RSS feeds? Surely there are more options out there trent-polack.com

flickr seemed like a good home for a dev gallery but, hrm, it sure isn't a hoppin' joint these days www.flickr.com/gp/trentpola...

I've been using some down time to redo my site and it's actually feeling like a brand new thing now: www.trent-polack.com It's very self-promotional but I'm trying to add dynamic content where I can so it'd be rad to hear thoughts. Also ignore every page being a BIT different; I'm honing.

i love getting to feel like a tv game developer with all the pretty gizmos and visuals

really psyched gravatar gave me my own LIFE trentpolack.life

I've been on the mend recently so I took the opportunity to revamp my BRAND: www.trent-polack.com github.com/trentpolack www.linkedin.com/in/trentp

boy I'm back

yeehaw youtu.be/ycEXP7G9wBY?...

I wrote a new article, this time exploring a bit how some games handle refraction. I discovered quite a few interesting tricks ! www.froyok.fr/blog/2024-12... #gamedev #rendering

my stalwart party

I've made a Starter Pack for UE devs that give great tips that are helpful online. Know anyone that should be on it? Let me know!