Megan Fox

@glassbottommeg.bsky.social

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Queer af founder of Glass Bottom Games. BAFTA Breakthrough. Working on Verminsteel! https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/ (prev: SkateBIRD, Hot Tin Roof, etc). She/Her 🏳️‍⚧️

Image from the Godot plugin that shows how it turns Blender instances into Godot multimesh (eg. how Godot handles instanced meshes)
In one small table on page 35, the researchers report no statistically significant correlation between the revenue per employee, and how much those employees use AI, measured in messages sent and tokens used. “Revenue per employee is not meaningfully associated with output tokens per employee or messages per active user once other controls are included,” the report explains. It says that companies that already have higher revenue per employee tend to be early ChatGPT adopters. Also, companies that use the tech more tend to have higher revenue per employee in general. In other words, big, lucrative companies are more likely to have hopped on the AI train. However, the study doesn’t clearly establish that the more AI they use, the more money they make.
In Ankara, Trump boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet in view of television cameras. He was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane — an Air Force C-32A — via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies preflight, according to the U.S. official and corroborating material reviewed by The Post. That made Air Force One a “decoy” with media and some White House staff aboard, the official said.
(post) Yeah sorry man sometimes we come from different countries and our families have to adjust and the results arent always cool to clearly awesome and moral dudes like you. So then we just have to deal w your mockery (response) Was the Lion against sunscreen? Or was it the Wardrobe?
a placeholder lowpoly truck with a tiny lowpoly canary riding on top
gdscript showing I'm looking for a %WorldEnvironment node, and there is definitely one over here in the scene, but for some reason it can't find it (this code fails)
If i describe this accurately the bsky mods will murder me in my sleep
The bus driver's ass appears to be twerking in the hoonigan's lap
The bus driver is pressed through the window of the car with his ass lovingly cradled in the lap of one of the hoonigans while the player looks on approvingly
In fact, we have been forced to opt out of every sale where the lead has expressed anything beyond the most fleeting curiosity in the use of AI in their business. I don’t mean that we’ve heard that they’re interested in AI and elected to drop the contract on moral grounds. I mean that, over the course of the engagement, these people have exhibited a pattern of behavior that has made it near-impossible to sell to them without incurring reputational and legal risk
query on their data. And we thought “Okay, if you really want to see it, maybe we can caveat this appropriately and show you what it might look like.” This was a terrible mistake. It backfired in the most predictable way imaginable – every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted, wanted to buy it immediately. Every other consideration, including millions of dollars that we could plausibly help them achieve by non-AI means, was swept aside. It was like a dark
Godot source, the key bit at the end where I do a lookat at (cur-pos + (forward z * 20 + toward-target).normalized Which works out to an ease, especially if done in a fixed step update
This hole was made for me meme, but climbing into the sickos meme
my fucking task planner with a task related to removing "turrents"
Crypt Custodian, Indiana Jones, AND the Zelda game
Nah, you need to cut the last syllable like Odysseus to odyssey So New Testament = The Jesey Lord of the Rings = The Frody Oppenheimer = The Oppenheim (reply) So the "walking on water" bit should have been called Jesey Shore
Good place meme, "JASON figured it out? Jason?! This is a real low point" but it's fucking Godot figuring out how to do all the basic ass shit Unity has lacked for decades, somehow
I am biasing the braking toward the rear, whereas normal safe actual cars bias the braking toward the front, because they're bores who hate fun and doing Scandinavian Turns around corners
The code that handles my sideways slip logic, and I've added a "wow I can't justify this but it's fun so uh, leave it be?" comment
The proposed upsides of gen AI may appear greater for devs with limited resources, but if anything, the independent developers I spoke to were even more AI-averse than creatives working within large teams. It's perhaps no coincidence that indies, free from the demands and expectations of big publishers and public shareholders operating under the belief that a world of finite resources will allow infinite growth, can more easily ignore AI.
The code calculating like braking torque
Code showing I can assign 3 different curves to each collider in my game, to define its friction
Code describing the force calculation and application. Note that the divide by weight here is because I'm calculating a "real" engine longitudinal force, from actual torque numbers, and then dividing by the "real" weight of the vehicle, because while the in-engine world is to scale, the weights are NOT to scale. The actual mass of the truck in-game is 1.0.
Batou appears and pulls a man through a window (and presumably kills him)
a fuckin HUGE wall of source code that includes incoherent giggling (!!) that, I think, implements a functional diff into an offroading physics sim
if torques != 0.0: # inertia of a cylinder = Mass * radius2 / 2 var wheel_inertia : float = suspension_to_apply.tire_weight * pow(suspension_to_apply.tire_radius, 2) * 0.5 # angular acceleration = total torque / rear wheel inertia. var angular_acceleration : float = torques / wheel_inertia # rear wheel angular velocity += rear wheel angular acceleration * time step suspension_to_apply.cur_angular_velocity += angular_acceleration * delta # Finally, convert the current wheel torque to force and apply it, assuming the wheel is touching if suspension_to_apply.is_colliding: # Angular velocity / 2pi * radius * 2pi, but the 2pis cancel, hence, var wheel_distance_rotated : float = suspension_to_apply.cur_angular_velocity * suspension_to_apply.tire_radius var wheel_distance_travelled : float = suspension_to_apply.cur_aligned_speed # If we're converting energy stored in angular velocity into a push via slip, we're removing it, right? I think? var burned_angular_velocity : float = (wheel_distance_rotated - wheel_distance_travelled) / suspension_to_apply.tire_radius suspension_to_apply.cur_angular_velocity -= burned_angular_velocity # That burned angular velocity then becomes our acceleration var accel : float = burned_angular_velocity * suspension_to_apply.tire_radius / delta # Normalize the force into being an acceleration (so we can transit it across the space boundary) accel /= truck_weight * weight_split # We can't apply more force than we had weight, and remember to apply the wheel facing accel = min(1.0, accel) if suspension_to_apply.right_side: accel *= -1.0 # Now re-apply our actual mass, and apply it as a force in the forward direction of the wheel apply_impulse(suspension_to_apply.wheel_bottom.global_basis.z * accel * mass, suspension_to_apply.wheel_bottom.global_position - global_position)
# Finally, convert the current wheel torque to force and apply it, assuming the wheel is touching if suspension_to_apply.is_colliding: var wheel_distance_rotated : float = suspension_to_apply.cur_angular_velocity / (2.0 * PI) * suspension_to_apply.tire_radius * 2.0 * PI # @TODO again, units. Wheel distance rotated units are in "real world" units, whereas wheel distance travelled would be in-sim units var wheel_distance_travelled : float = suspension_to_apply.cur_aligned_speed
# If we're applying gas, that generally means acceleration, but if we're in reverse gear, could be reverse! if %Antenna.gas_input > 0 || cur_gear == 0: torques = torque_curve.sample(cur_rpm) # This gives us the drive torque if %Antenna.gas_input > 0: torques *= %Antenna.gas_input else: torques *= %Antenna.brake_input # Apply the gearing torques *= gear_ratios[cur_gear] * differential_ratio * transmission_efficiency # @TODO: note, we're certain torques make sense in real-world terms up to THIS point, including the wheel radius print("RPM: ", cur_rpm, " torque force: ", torques / suspension_to_apply.tire_radius, "N") torques *= power_split # The power is split between the wheels (more or less depending on 4-wheel vs 2-wheel drive) # inertia of a cylinder = Mass * radius2 / 2 var wheel_inertia : float = suspension_to_apply.tire_weight * pow(suspension_to_apply.tire_radius, 2) * 0.5 # angular acceleration = total torque / rear wheel inertia. var angular_acceleration : float = torques / wheel_inertia # rear wheel angular velocity += rear wheel angular acceleration * time step suspension_to_apply.cur_angular_velocity += angular_acceleration * delta if %Antenna.gas_input > 0 || cur_gear == 0: print("wheel angular vel: ", suspension_to_apply.cur_angular_velocity)
I should put fishing in my truck offroading video game
So for AI games, a high rating and commercial success rarely come together: the best-selling AI genres are mediocre-rated systems/adult titles, and the highest-rated AI genres are commercial dead ends.
wheel.rotation.x = wheel.rotation.x + (spin_sign * rad_to_deg(cur_angular_velocity) * delta)
Screen grab from the Capy Castaway trailer featuring, just some stuff, houses and such
Spongebob ascending but for real this time, the true true ascension
How do we get the RPM? So we need the rpm to calculate the engine's max torque and from there the engine's actual applied torque. In other words, now we need to know has fast the engine's crankshaft is turning. The way I do it is to calculate this back from the drive wheel rotation speed. After all, if the engine's not declutched, the cranckshaft and the drive wheels are physically connected through a set of gears. If we know the rpm, we can calculate the rotation speed of the drive wheels, and vice versa!
My ProtoPage RSS feed readout. Highly highly recommended to set one up.
Browser tabs open for Car Physics, Programming Vehicles (wassimulator), and a doc an engineer friend was kind enough to write me on friction
The more advanced way is to let the simulation keep track of the rear wheel rotation rate and how it changes in time due to the torques that act on the rear wheels. In other words, we find the rotation rate by integrating the rotational acceleration over time. The rotational acceleration at any particular instant depends on the sum of all the torques on the axle and equals the net torque divided by the rear axles inertia (just like linear accelaration is force divided by mass). The net torque is the drive torque we saw earlier minus the friction torques that counteract it (braking torque if you're braking and traction torque from the contact with the road surface).
Idaho Mentioned Girl because fucksakes Idaho
"Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power" but they're looking at some poor "UNREAL ENGINE 5 HOW TO MAKE LEATHER AND RUBBER" and comparing it to: the humble baked-lighting leather couch in a 90's PC game
The surprisingly cool Commodore phone holster Thing, which also comes in a cool transparent plastic but I feel like Chris would find the leather version here cooler
National Mall evacuated ahead of President Trump address
The Great American State Fair and there's like, a hundred people? Maybe?
Godot screenshot showing a setup where the rendering viewport is a smaller portion of the display. Imagine like how you could scale Doom's render view down to a tiny postage stamp if you were so inclined, or other classic games where there's a ton of UI on-screen and the "in game" part was actually a small little box.
I think we're gonna have to kill this guy steven meme, but Garnet is saying we're gonna have to do an integral Damn
Picture of my cat sitting such that a rainbow is shining on his belly
The Skeletor toy holding the modified progress flag with the circle in the triangle
/40ZR-18 rear tyres of a Corvette have an unloaded radius of 34 cm. Here's an equation to get from engine torque to drive force: the longtitudinal force that the two rear wheels exert on the road surface. Fdrive = u * Tengine * xg * xd * n / Rw where u is a unit vector which reflects the car's orientation, Tengine is the torque of the engine at a given rpm, xg is the gear ratio, xd is the differential ratio, n is transmission efficiency and Rw is wheel radius. An example: Engine is running at 2500 rpm, looking this up on the curve gives engine torque of 448 Nm (=330 ft lbs) Gear ratio (first gear): 2.66 Differential ratio: 3.42 Transmission efficiency: 0.7 (guess) Wheel radius: 0.34 m (=13.4 inch) Mass: 1500 kg (= 3300 lbs of weight) including the driver. This gives us a potential drive force of (448*2.66*3.42*0.7/0.34 = ) 8391 N if the driver puts his foot down. Meanwhile, in the static situation, the weight on the rear wheels is half the weight of the car and driver: (1500 kg / 2 ) * 9.8 m/s2 = 7350 N (=1650 lbs). This means the maximum amount of traction the rear wheels can provide if mu = 1.0 is 7350 N. Push the pedal down further than that and the wheels will start spinning and lose grip and the traction actually drops below the maximum amount. So, for maximum acceleration the driver must exert an amount of force just below the friction threshold. The subsequent acceleration causes a weight shift to the rear wheels. The acceleration is: a = 7350 N / 1500 kg = 4.9 m/s2 (=0.5 G) Let's say that b = c = 1.25m and L is therefore 2.50 m, the CG is 1.0 m above ground level. After a brief moment the amount of shifted weight is then (h/L)*M*a, that is (1.0/2.50)*1500*4.9 = 2940 N. This means Wf = 7350 - 2940 N and Wr = 7350 + 2940 N. The rear wheels now have extra weight which in this case is sufficient to allows the driver to put his foot all the way down.
Watching the Wlda Zelda chest opening on my laptop, and flipping the laptop down to reveal - A CAT
I am reading something and I've just h understood the subtext and this is not a good thing
Chidi explaining that it was in fact Larry The Cable Guy who said that as part of his set
Whiteboard derivation of Ackerman Steering (what should the "opposite" wheel be angled at, to match the turning arc of the inner wheel)
Portable content Now, let’s talk about the second guiding principle of UE6: Content and code should be portable across games and engines. Our goal is to give the games industry a whole new way to grow our ecosystems with cross-promotion, portable player value, and to really lean into all of the positive-sum dynamics that Metcalfe's Law predicts for connecting experiences and social graphs together.
Idaho Mentioned meme girl, she has a potato and vodka and she spends her summers drunk and floating the snake
Verminsteel brawl where I'm using the tag-in system and all the tricks, die a bunch, and eventually win when I remember that launching enemies is still pretty broken cus they don't have a counter for it. YET.
It's a chud yelling about how the pink bit of clouds in the Halo announcement signal bisexual lighting and trans or, something. Then he uses "gaslit" incorrectly.
Space Quest 1, that level where you gotta walk the path in between the plant roots or it eats you
Idaho Mentioned girl now has a hat proclaiming she drinks and floats the snake
Idaho mentioned meme girl
The cast of Verminsteel, in very pride colors, variously lofting bricks, molotovs, and a farming implement that is presumably only going to be used for legal farming-related activities
The vibe triangle, but I broke off the lower left chunk, because that's the tastiest part and nobody got to it first so you snooze you lose bucko