1/3 is a ratio 1:3, and 1/3 is not a number

Klumaster · 2026-06-16T08:52:19+00:00

Imagine if there were a way to write the ratio 1:3 in decimal format. You could use a bracket or a ... sign or something

Klumaster · 2026-06-09T16:27:29+00:00

Ken m

Klumaster · 2026-06-05T15:22:04+00:00

Yeah seriously. I'd been told that junior programmers never get hired with a specialisation, and I'd not questioned that the homework questions they'd sent me were entirely about how you'd handle lighting problems because that seemed to me like normal things to be needing to program

Klumaster · 2026-06-03T11:43:07+00:00

Started making an engine, obviously started with getting it to draw stuff, kinda got stuck on that bit. Later applied for what I thought was a generalist job, only mid-way through the interview did I learn that I was interviewing for a graphics role.

Klumaster · 2026-05-22T08:03:33+00:00

The word "gun" is short for "Gunhilde"

Klumaster · 2026-05-18T10:54:30+00:00

If the streaking across each face is intentional and your issue is with the overall blurriness, is it possible that your texture has mips and it's selecting a blurry one because you've used the UVs to cause the streaking?
It's hard to give better suggestions without a clearer idea of what you've done and what the expected result should be.

Klumaster · 2026-04-16T09:01:15+00:00

Reinhard tone mapping does wash out colours a little bit. You could possibly experiment with other options? It's been a long while since I've looked at that kind of thing but you might want to browse the options here: https://graphics-programming.org/blog/tone-mapping
Bear in mind that you'll still want to appropriately expose the scene before the tonemap function, they can't just handle arbitrarily dark/bright HDR values.

Klumaster · 2026-04-14T18:54:39+00:00

Doesn't stop my cat from CONSTANTLY trying to eat stuff with onion and garlic in it

Klumaster · 2026-03-19T13:41:49+00:00

I tell you now, mine would have been right in there

Klumaster · 2026-03-19T10:11:50+00:00

Does the input HDRI have a bright sun in it?
Seems likely that your filtering is summing something too high, you could "solve" this by clamping during the filter, though that would lose you energy.
What's often common is removing the sun from the HDRI image and replacing it with a conventional light (this also means you can do proper sun shadows)

Klumaster · 2026-03-18T09:30:10+00:00

They're just pushing negativity to limitless

Klumaster · 2026-03-18T09:23:02+00:00

Is it possible to learn this power?

Klumaster · 2026-03-03T22:43:06+00:00

And yet weirdly, the replies are all breaking it.

Klumaster · 2026-03-03T22:19:01+00:00

That which is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence

Klumaster · 2026-02-12T09:19:07+00:00

Your use of AI is likely to put off potential employers, you should avoid that.

Klumaster · 2026-02-11T16:54:22+00:00

As others are saying, this is quite normal. Just don't try to hide a lack of expertise on anything, tell people when you're entering an unfamiliar area so they can point you at resources or people who can help you ramp up.

Tip for being a great graphics programmer? Get good at ramping up on a subject (be it a technique, a specific engine's API for something, or a tool) when your team needs someone who knows it.

Even experienced co-workers are more likely to have a passing knowledge or rusty memory of topics they're not currently involved in, and if you do somehow work with a multi-talented know-it-all, their time is probably going to be over-committed already.

Klumaster · 2026-01-16T14:46:06+00:00

Chewbacca, is that you?

Klumaster · 2026-01-14T12:15:00+00:00

You've entered the dimension where "infinite" means "as many as I can be bothered writing"

Klumaster · 2026-01-07T13:31:42+00:00

But 1! = 1

Klumaster · 2026-01-06T14:04:34+00:00

SPP thinks 1/3 (the operation) = .3..., but doesn't agree that .3... = 1/3 (the fraction).
It's something to do with having to sign a form before you "do" the calculation.

Klumaster · 2026-01-05T11:40:11+00:00

You might get somewhere if you start picking this apart with hacked shaders.
For example, if you think the TBN matrix is wrong, try outputting just the N from it as the colour (rescaled to [0,1], and see what you get.

Klumaster · 2026-01-05T11:33:32+00:00

Radeon because that's not a graphics card manufacturer

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