Transparent textures usually have bad values in the RGB of the transparent pixels, causing visual artifacts on lower mips. Wrote a little tool to pad PNGs with transparency to TGA with alpha. Code, .exe and explaination here: shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/padding-tran...

A little set dressing practice I did based on a scan by @artfletch . You can find the model here: skfb.ly/pyNyF

Brotato is a perfect example of a fun gameplay makes me forgive whatever. Somehow it lags on 5090 graphic card with top of the line CPU. Random memory spikes, possible memory leaks etc. But ... its so damn fun, 10/10

I will be in Amaze everyday this week. Say hi if you are around!

We have been working on both a PCVR port, as well as 2D mode for Puzzling Places! If relaxing jigsaw puzzle is your thing, give it a wish list!

📢 BIG NEWS! 📢 Puzzling Places is coming to #Steam! 🔥 Relax and build stunning 3D jigsaw dioramas ✨ 🧩 30+ puzzles, 25-1000 pieces, no timers! 🎮 Puzzle your way in 2 game modes 🖥️ Play on desktop, Steam Deck, or VR!  #cozygaming #gaming #indiegames #comingsoon

Does anyone else think chatGPT is strangely american nice? It over reacts to simple "Is this assumption of mine correct" with "you amazing elegant genius, that is spot on". I wished there was a european version of "about time you got it you idiot"

Sometimes bugs and UX problem make it to Unreal Engine releases, where you think, How did everyone miss it? And then remain in production for 10 years. For example since UE4.18, compiling C++ code in VS sends out a Git Status at the begining, which adds 10 minutes to compile time

Automatically turn images into jigsaw puzzles in Blender using Geometry Nodes and Python. I break it down in my latest post. You can use it for games, 3D prints, or just for fun.🧩 Code and blog post: shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/creating-a-j... #Blender #Tech #Python #3DPrinting

From top 100 indie games in 2024, 8% accounted for 80% of the revenue made. 99.5% of the indie games released didn't reach the million revenue threshold. In this post, I crunch the numbers for 2024 indie releases and their distribution: shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/the-2024-ind...

Ah, turns out the distribution of indie games by revenue is somewhat fractal. I I am analyzing the 2024 indie game releases by revenue, some interesting stuff! Time to write a blog post on just how lucky you need to get for the indie success 😅

A little nice trick to create hand writing animation with Blenders geoemtry nodes. Its only a few nodes, but you can do a lot with it

Another one. This one based on a painting I did of my grandfather. The brush strokes are placed with geometry nodes. Model available on my Sketchfab: skfb.ly/p9PYw

Trying out Hunyuan 3D's sythensis system. Setup is fairly easy. I have done this process by hand before, the model shortens the time from 2 days to couple of hours First test on my Sketchfab: skfb.ly/p9O6U

I have been thinking through how unprepared I am for what could be the future of the game industry, brought about by AI and other dynamics. In this post I go over what current economics of games and toilet paper have in common, and how to maybe adopt: shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/i-am-not-rea...

Another fantastic year full of books. Here are my top books of 2024. I asked chatgpt to roast my shelf this year: This list screams, “I want to dominate the world, but first I need a self-help book to explain what world domination means.” 🤣🤣🤣 shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/my-best-book...

god damn I just about caught up on the books I wanted to finish this year (there are still 3 left, but I will finish them in the coming 3 weeks), and the Economist went and added 6 new excellent books to the list. There is no end 💃

I dreamt a good Samaritan rewrote the text editor in Blender and then it was really good. Like you could search and it would jump to found instances, and there was even intelisense and auto completion. Then I woke up!

procedural butterflies in 5 minutes in geometry nodes. God I love this tool

After years away from game dev, I couldn’t stay silent about my people’s dehumanization. I made Dreams on a Pillow 🍉a game inspired by a famous Palestinian folktale about the 1948 Nakba. I’m crowdfunding it now—please back & share! 🔗 launchgood.com/1948

Reality Capture apprently has an awesome new update. Good for whoever can get Epic launcher to do what they want!

For our latest puzzle, I wanted to add stuff that move between puzzle pieces. One thing lead to another, budget overblew, and I made a traffic system with cars, pedesterians, right of passage etc. The funny part is I don't have a driving liecense

Here is the Blender geometry node curve wrapping demo scene on my Sketchfab model: skfb.ly/ps7YW the nodes on Github: github.com/IRCSS/Blende...

ouf! Finally got this working, iterative solution for wrapping curves over topologies of whatever complexities in Geometry Nodes!

Fascinating, but not what I wanted!

Harvesting pixels 🌾

🚨 Hot take: Technical debt isn’t the enemy—letting it loose is! Instead of wasting time on “perfect” code, we should focus on manageable debt that drives useful progress. New Blog post: shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/why-avoiding...

also true for games 🥲

my most favourite was the new workflow of texture fixing with dalle! This is a good idea, I will port some of the more popular tweets here!

hello! we’re Future Friends Games and we help cool developers by publishing and promoting cool indie games!!! if you are reading this, pls like and share this pinned post to make us look cool! here are some games we’ve worked on

People could present their awesome skills in a more straightforward manner. Especially the freelancers!

I read The Death and Life of Great American Cities thanks to @tovanbo.bsky.social . There is much parallel between code and real architecture. This book highlights the things I hate about dogmatic "good code practices". Arrogant assumptions about the future instead of data driven pragmatism

Started setting up a starter pack for technical and vfx artists here! It's not conclusive yet, I'll update it as I go, but it should be a great start to find some awesome artists ✨ go.bsky.app/Bih7pqu

I had a very fun chat with growing pain podcast about personal challenges of making games, growth and leadership youtu.be/zLk6lLt63Lk?...

I did the curation for Codetalk 's game track this year too, which means I can spend two days listening to all the talks that are 100 percent targeted at me

Made a low detail/ poly crowd animation in case it is useful to anyone skfb.ly/pqEyT

Apple Vision Pro is a very different platform in some aspects. I wrote down some of our learnings designing Puzzling Places for Apple Vision Pro medium.com/@shahriyarsh...

an incredible year, here are the best books I read this year! My Top Books of 2023 shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/my-top-books...

Made and animated a little diorama with geometry nodes. I covered some workflows around transforming mesh islands here medium.com/@shahriyarsh...

New blog post, colored light shadow transitions in Blender shahriyarshahrabi.medium.com/in-the-valle...

Fully procedural Islamic Dome made in Blender. I will put out a blog post in a week going over the material nodes and procedural modeling in geometry nodes. For now, you can viewer/ download the model on my Sketchfab skfb.ly/oM6t8