New side quest: day-night cycle in GoldSRC (thread) Done: light blending (using a lightstyle hack) To do: skybox blending, custom skybox set (images = goals)

(1/5) In 2020, I learned some OpenGL. In 2021, I learned some NVRHI. In 2023, I switched to C# and learned some Veldrid. Veldrid was quite nice. But I never really cared for DX11, OGL or Metal. Just Vulkan. So, this year I picked up Vulkan 1.4 and honestly? It's lovely. Hello Triangle, the 4th!

Okay, now what if.. a VR fox that teaches you Half-Life mapping

Oh yeah I finally wrote that blog post! Here: microfox.dev/blog/10-25-l... Well, it's more like a bunch of notes along the way, with a few editor notes here and there.

35 minutes of yapping about Half-Life mapping. This will be my first video produced fully on Linux, so let's hope nothing goes wrong(tm)

Two years ago, I told myself Windows 10 was gonna be my last Windows, that I would switch to Linux at some point. 3 weeks ago, I finally gave it a proper try. Not in a VM, not on my old laptop, but on my main PC, dualbooting nixOS alongside Windows. It went well! (1/6)

Week 2 of porting Half-Life to C#: So I took my HostFxr wrapper from 2022, polished it up real good and tested a few basic things on .NET 8. Works perfectly fine in x86. After a bit of messing around with calling conventions, I got printing to Half-Life's console to work!

Week 1 of porting Half-Life to C#: Translated all the engine headers to C# (edict_t, entvars_t...), set up Coral (C++/C# interop library), only to realise Coral doesn't work in 32-bit apps? Yay!

I'll probably never replace this spawnpoint icon

June and December 2024