I've been pretty quiet on here recently, but I thought I'd share some life updates! Today was my last day at Roblox. It's been amazing few years, and I'll really miss the team I'm leaving behind! Next week I start a new adventure at Epic Games as a Lead Rendering Programmer on Unreal Engine!

I ran the Vancouver Marathon yesterday, which was my first ever full Marathon! Ended with a time of 3h38min, which I'm super happy with! Was supposed to run it last year, but got injured just weeks before the race. Feels incredibly gratifying to finally be able to run it and finish it!

First time voting in a federal Canadian election since I became a citizen. And what an election too! Keep those elbows up Canada!

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RDV au prochain stream avec @beammyup.bsky.social et @yoriculaire.bsky.social le mercredi 16 avril à 17h Montréal / 23h Barcelone! Sur twitch.tv/shiniesandshadows évidemment!

Salut! @yoriculaire.bsky.social et @beammyup.bsky.social vont continuer leur exploration de l'utilisation du USD dans le moteur de Remedy games ce vendredi à 17h EST/ 23h CET! On a hâte de vous y voir 🤩✨

I'll be at GDC this week! Probably won't be around the conference center much throughout the day, but would be happy to meet up after hours is others are around!

the best place in the city, on the seawall past the lions gate bridge, when the full ocean opens up and the pavement bends out of view a world of possibilities, just waiting to be explored

When in Amsterdam we of course have to pass by Guerilla! With @beammyup.bsky.social

Join us next March 5th, 6:30pm, at the beautiful offices of Rodeo FX for our next RGBA Mixer! It is a special edition we organized in partnership with WIA Montreal and Rodeo FX❤️ Don't miss out!😉 🎟️Register here: rgbamixer.eventbrite.ca

Oh boy does it feel good to be Canadian tonight!!

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I don't discuss Roblox much on here, but today is special! My team has been working on a lighting scalability system (a project we dubbed "Unified Lighting") for quite some time now, and today we're finally letting developers play around with it in Roblox Studio! devforum.roblox.com/t/let-there-...

Bonjour Hi et Bonne année 2025! 🎊🥳 Ce lundi, @yoriculaire.bsky.social et @beammyup.bsky.social lancent le premier stream de 2025 avec la lecture de developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/gpug..., l'une de vos suggestions! :) Nous avons très hâte de vous retrouver ce lundi 11h EST, 17h CET sur Twitch! ✨

Watching the sun rise over the water and north shore mountains on early morning seawall runs. The breathtaking view on the first clear sky day after the mountains got a dump of snow. The abundance of amazing and interesting food options across the city. And so much more too!

One of the things that I've learned over the last year being the sole graphics engineer on a large Unreal project is how important it was to collaborate with tech arts and QA more so than ever. Daily talk. Being good friends. It makes up for all the job fulfillment of game development.

OpenUSD update! All of my "core" asset types can now bake into runtime formats from USD + I have a good workflow set up to add additional USD schemas and get those into engine runtime formats easily! Time to actually port over some rendering code!

Thinking out loud here: What's the point of tools like Intellisense when even on a small- to medium-sized codebase it takes longer to resolve type/function information than it does for me to just look up the information I need? Feels like it just adds another barrier instead of removing one!

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And the first few USD asset types pass the runtime asset integration tests! Neat!

OpenUSD wrangling time! Goal for today: Build a proof of concept for representing all of my renderer's asset types (e.g. geometry, textures, material shaders, materials, etc.) in native USD where possible. Bonus points if we can get the asset pipeline to spit out runtime assets!

We're streaming tomorrow 11am EST/ 5pm CET to talk about the performance implications and optimization options of this painterly shading approach! Joignez-nous sur Twitch! :D

Took a little excursion into OpenUSD today. Had been wanting to learn more about it for a long time! My head is full of prims now.

I've slowly been cleaning up and migrating my long-standing home renderer project to a new public github repo. I'm trying to fix a bunch of grievances I've had with it along the way, one of them being minimal shader rebuilds when changing a header. I had no idea how deep the insanity would go :(

Woah, how are there over 800 of you following me?? I'll need to make sure to make some time to follow some people back. I see a lot of familiar names! If you found me through a list/starter pack: Hi, I'm Gijs, and I'm a long-time graphics programmer. I'll have some fun stuff to share on here soon!

If we need to preserve anything from The Other Place it is this amazing meme originally posted by @mjp123.bsky.social

I decided I don't like WordPress anymore as a solution for my blog, so I'm going to switch to Hugo like the rest of the cool kids! It's a fun experience so far!

Is Jendrik Illner on BlueSky yet? In case he's not, here's a link to today's Graphics Programming Weekly: www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Going through some of my old blog post drafts, and there are some pretty salty titles in there. Of course there's the next entry of my engine architecture series, a continuation on GPU driven rendering, but then there's also one named "Stop trying to be clever".

Thought I'd share an old post I did which I still feel is pretty relevant today: Implementing a GPU-driven debug line renderer www.gijskaerts.com/wordpress/?p... Ever wanted to just draw debug primitives directly from a shader without CPU intervention? Look no further!

Oh wow, hi new followers! I did not expect this kind of a crowd so quickly! Super excited to see so many familiar names pop up. I'm so happy to have a gamedev/graphics community again!

I tried going through my following for anyone that seemed to mention graphics / engine dev / etc, and added them all to a starter pack. I might have missed people, or included people I shouldn't, but it's at least a start! Please let me know anyone else that should be included! go.bsky.app/UFcEcV6

If you're games industry and following some folks already, reply with who you are and what you do, and then re-post this or whatever it's called. Let's try and find each other on this new place

A few topics have been on my mind recently, and I'd love to write about some of them. Here's a list: * Why everyone should write a GameBoy emulator * Modern low-level Android rendering in Vulkan from a Desktop/Console perspective * Experiments with Lua in asset pipelines Not sure where to start!

It feels weird to have never posted anything here. I think I need to start writing graphics blog posts again. So many ideas, so many side projects, so little time!