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Thank you! And yep, this doc works for other kits, but for Pirates for example it wasn't sufficient - see the rest of this thread, I found the issue! The UV line was in between 2 pixel columns, so the Nearest/Closest interp method would flicker on some engines, like Blender and Godot :)

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Fun fact: if you simply move the UV line left or right, from in between pixel columns (where you had put it 😅) towards the middle of a pixel column... it also works, regardless of interpolation being closest or linear :)

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Inside Godot, I changed my shader's sampler2D to be filter_linear_mipmap instead of filter_closest_mipmap and it doesn't flicker anymore either. Enabling mipmaps on the godot texture and reimporting did not fix it, so something fishy going on with this 0-width UV probably? Figured you'd wanna know?

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Flickering disappear when re-unwrapping, so not a material issue... But it also disappears in Blender if I switch to anything else than "closest" for the colormap interpolation method!

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 18/05/2026

Hey @kenney.nl ! Were you aware of/do you know how to fix this flickering on your materials in the Pirate Kit (here in blender, but same appears in Godot with all default import settings)? Seems related to the 0px-wide UVs 👀 Thanks for everything you do btw, proud donator already <3

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> Also: We have probably had about a million emails about #Everhaven. People were HYPED for that game. 🥹

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 08/05/2026

Everhaven was such a beautiful game. Every day thanks to this account, I'm reminded of the pride I had working on it with such talented and caring folks. For those who come after, friends 🥹

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 27/03/2026

The false impression of progress is something I've always found a bigger risk than doing nothing. Not just with AI, but when dysfunctional productions use it as "See, it works, let's keep going then!", that's where tech debt accumulates. Better to fail a milestone than give in to the illusion IMO...

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 05/03/2026

Then maybe you should also delay the evaluation of the thing you can't evaluate fully :P Data oriented (not driven, oriented) patterns! Systems that tick once a frame at a precise moment, the rest becoming "posting data to a queue" for the next frame to process :) avoid doing stuff in-callstack!

Kenney @kenney.nl · 16/02/2026

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In today's episode of AI is ruining the thing you love; Godot could really use some extra funding just to judge if something is slop because they're getting overwhelmed

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Eric Buchholz @ebuch.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

New video for those looking to try out the newest metasound feature to hit ue5-main

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UE 5.8 Experimental - MetaSound Document Configuration Sneak Peek

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 30/11/2025

Props to the UI artist(s) on #Runescape: #Dragonwilds. It's so pleasing to watch and interact with! Rarely are menus so beautiful. And the game's great too, ofc 🎉The building UX is great, especially the idea of a building spell to get in flying camera mode :)

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 20/11/2025

Coming soon™️ in UE5🎉 ✅ Recently Used category for MetaSounds nodes ✅ Favorite category for MetaSounds nodes (like BPs) ✅ MetaSounds Interface tooltips ✅ Sound Class graph search tab ✅ Sound Class graph auto-zoom on opened class ✅ Find in CB & View References from SC graph For those who come after 💌

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Fortnite News & Updates @newsfortnite.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Harry Potter x Fortnite coming in Chapter 7 (In other words, Fortnite is adding a transphobic authors work into Fortnite) #Fortnite #FortniteNews

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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵

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The official home of the Python Programming Language

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 23/10/2025

This is gorgeous 🥹

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 10/10/2025

I was seeing it for a while in my feed and dared not watch in case them too fell into the AI trap... But thanks for recommending ❤️ Will broadcast in my own spheres!!

Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 06/10/2025

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 23/09/2025

I'll refer to this article a lot from now on, for folks who asks me "but how do you do it?". Feels natural to some of us, others need convincing... TLDR: You're not developing in a vacuum. Think of your users more!! We're not researchers, we're game devs 🥹 rystorm.com/blog/waterme...

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The Dangerous Watermelons 🍉 in your Software — Robin-Yann Storm, Product & UX Designer for Tools

What are watermelons, and what are they doing in your software?

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 11/09/2025

Yup, it's that simple. On any engine. Btw, did you know there are ways to instrument Godot with Tracy? It's amazing!

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 09/09/2025

Because you shouldn't have to think about "coin" or "Bernoulli gate" to find a metasound node that triggers with a chance... Renamed the Trigger Filter node to be Trigger Chance and rephrased tooltips to make it clearer. Coming in UE5.7! It's the little things... :) github.com/EpicGames/Un...

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 08/09/2025

I want one of these hanging from my game room ceiling 🥹

DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 27/08/2025

Our Drafts Collides is so good it should be illegal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxfR... #clairobscur #expedition33

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Our Drafts Collides

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 17/08/2025

Great stuff, thanks for sharing!

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 13/08/2025

#MusicBee makes it so simple to play "all my music library in shuffle, but without any OST music". This is peak UX - right click Music, expand Filters, Manage... create a "Non-OST" filter based on the Genre metadata, poof. All in under 3min, and no loading. Damn, it's so good when tech just works!!!

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 07/08/2025

Wooooooooo congrats on the launch!! What platform should we buy it from so that you get the most pennies out of it? :)

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Matt Yang - Wishlist The Royal Restoration Society! @debaser1215.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Well this is a first: Someone made a wiki for a game I worked on that was cancelled. Really makes me happy to see Everhaven live on in some form ❤️ everhaven.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page #bringbackprojectdragon #gamedev

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Everhaven Wiki

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 04/08/2025

Despite the sad state of the world, there are still beautiful things. Thanks #TinyGlade 🥲❣️

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 31/07/2025

Forgot I did this, but damn this game looks good 🙏 Heroes V Haven faction's town in #TinyGlade 💖 @pouncelight.bsky.social

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 28/07/2025

How did you have the patience for those trees... It looks awesome, all of it! Nice job all of you :D

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 24/07/2025

My cat is meowing like crazy when I sing "Une vie à t'aimer" from Clair-Obscur while working. She even bites my face if I do as if she wasn't there. Is my cat the only cat that does that? Or is it because I sing so bad? xD www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMb...

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Une vie à t'aimer

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 16/07/2025

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A lot of people come into the games industry and pretty soon develop a cynical attitude that the industry is largely run by business guys who don't know a thing about video games. It's only after a few years and some seniority that you realize that those guys don't know shit about business either.

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DavidT @dtaralla.ca · 06/07/2025

Can somebody tell me why tf AI is so revolutionary for tech and already changes coders lives, while we can still not have Google AI predict the weather for the current day without enormous errors? I can look at the sky and have a better preditciton. AI is the future... yeah sure

So yeah. Really, really happy to have kept going on after the first few hours. This one is clearly one I'll replay shortly after finishing it, and one I'll remember :) Congrats to the team @sandfallgames.bsky.social - Montrez-leur! Allez les bleus!!! (et ça vient d'un belge... c'est dire! :D)

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they even put a ref to a meme xD And a breakdancing dude... really, all in all, best AA game I've probably ever played. Sure, animation could be better polished and less mocappy, we reach uncanny valley here and there, but the monster design and environment art is more than compensating for that 4/5

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are so beautiful, I can't swap them for any other attire. Even though they don't shy away from comedy, with "cool" bathing suits and the _Baguette_ clothing line :'D To me, they could get Game of the Year JUST with the Gestral Village. I had so much fun discovering all the little interactions... 3/N

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... pop culture slop we've been getting from the Hollywoodian video games of late. The french humor and dialogues are really nice to see, it's refreshing. It's really "What if Final Fantasy was made in France?", and with such success... The character design is on point, and the default cloths... 2/N

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