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I got away with four bitflags. 1, 2, 4, 8 and then cast to int. Extremely efficient use of a 32bit float.

i've got shit stuffed in two float4 uv channels, plus an extra two arrays of float4 already, so there's kind of a lot going on :D

yeah, it's gonna have to be a float unfortunately. it's entirely doable, i'm just not sure i'm quite ready to turn on my brain to that degree just now.

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18 months ago i was being very clever and stuffed three values in one shader parameter. today i need to get one more in there and it's all falling apart.

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grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 28/09/2026

I'm not great at hanging out there but the @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social discord seems like a cool place?

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this is like the fifth time i've had to figure it out *without* comments, so i figured i was overdue to write myself a little note :D

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grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 28/09/2026

you can tell i was cooking with this code because it requires a small novel to describe to *me* what i was up to. it's actually not too bad, it's just that i very much forget how it works and why when i don't touch it for a couple of months.

Dear future me, here's how the cutout rendering works:
This class gets the playfield rects (usually just one, but may be up to three for wide levels)
It figures out a rect that wraps all of them and resizes the cutout quad to match that maximum size
It also crops all the individual rects to the bounds of the playfield and passes them to a global vector array
This is so that we can later read them in the shader.

The rendering happens in two passes, as configured entirely in the URP render passes.
The Cutout object belongs to the Cutout layer which is how we work out what actually gets rendered.
These passes then replace the material accordingly, hence this not having a material set in the editor.
It all gets swapped out at runtime anyway.
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The first pass is the Cutout pass. This renders the complex playfield shape to the stencil buffer only.
This pass does some SDF math to do rounded corners etc. It needs to use alpha clipping, because the stencil buffer
(at least the way we use it) can't do partial transparency.
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Once we have our cutout in the stencil buffer, we can do another pass. The Passepartout.
This is a much simpler one, we move the quad *very* close to the camera using the vertex shader and render it with a
plain color. This is where the stencil buffer from before gets used, to decide where to *not* draw the passepartout.
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This results in the passepartout (or playfield frame if you wanna be like that) being very close to the camera,
while the "hole" is just like normal.
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The goal here is not having to do anything special in any of the games other shaders, "it just works".
Because the passepartout is so close to the camera, anything within a reasonable range will get culled by the
z-buffer.

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grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 27/09/2026

Would you say that two fares was fair enough?

grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 27/09/2026

are they also getting 1cm larger every time?!

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magpie conference minutes after the murder. that cat's just made some powerful enemies!

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(content warning: cat kills bird) some drama on the driveway this morning. just a pigeon minding its own business, then a murder and then magpies! it brought its friends just a couple of minutes later too, video in the next post.

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i can't recall if you built this machine yourself or not? either way, there's a good chance those two cpu fans are on a Y-splitter, so won't be able to control them individually. otoh, you can at least get closer to the answer before you need to start unplugging things.

Fan Control is a free software that allows the user to control their CPU, GPU and case fans using temperatures.

for windows i can warmly recommend fan control: getfancontrol.com you can manually set the speed of individual fans to suss out stuff like this, and it's great for day to day use too.

getfancontrol.com

Fan Control

that's clearly a not-normal sound, actually sounds kinda like a fan blade is hitting something (a cable or such), but that makes no sense if its stopping later. a good trick is to unplug the suspect fan, you can even run without both CPU fans for a bit without any danger.

grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 25/09/2026

i am trying hard not to post and i'm not dead yet. not sure on the causal relationship there.

grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 25/09/2026

i did end up installing it just to see how bad it would be and i had to actively go look for the themes, so it was mostly fine in the end. still would have liked it not to be a thing in the first place!

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grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 25/09/2026

i have looked at it a couple of times, but never took the leap. maybe it's time!

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a tiny bit disappointed it didn't come to striking, but this is a good result

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for your consideration: this phone

An old analog phone, with buttons. First the typical 0-9 *# and then letters FGHP and then L1 through L8 and also DTCR. It's a lot.

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King tecknar kollektivavtal med Sveriges Ingenjörer

The employees at King (who you know from Candy Crush) was about to go on strike tomorrow, because their employer refused to sign a collective agreement. Negotiations have been going on for more than a year. Today, they finally signed. www.sverigesingenjorer.se/opinion-och-...

sverigesingenjorer.se

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this, but putting air in your bike tires

yep yep. my exact experience too.

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yeah, was gonna caveat that bit. supposedly works on android too, but cameras are a bit more of a crapshoot there so 🤷

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see also: dropbox. dear dropbox, you sync my files and you shut up. that's what you do.

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for a bit i used an old disused iphone (and an app called droid cam), it's a way better camera than any webcam. in the end i stopped because it was too much of a hassle as compared to a permanently installed webcam. cheap tho!

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the psd format is beyond cursed, that's why!

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if this was an app of some sort i'd uninstall it and move on with my life, this is the GODDAMN OPERATING SYSTEM. fuck.

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can't say installing updates for anything is particularly enjoyable in these times of ai-everything, but this is a new level of suckage.

• Instantly customise your Pixel with Harry Potter audiobook packs to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible. One tap changes your wallpaper, icons and sounds with elements from the audiobooks. [2]

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this would be nice. i suspect any scraper will gleefully ignore it, but still, it would be nice!

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🌙Evil Sonny Ross🌞 @sonnyross.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i stopped reading store reviews a long time ago, it just stresses me out too much. i do love the ones that are like "FANTASTIC" and then 1 star, or inversely "WORST GAME" 5 stars. but other than that, it's just too much emotional turmoil.

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Reposted by grapefrukt

Hello, you kept asking for stickers. www.sonnyross.com/shop/stickers

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this is very cool! i couldn't help but notice the tcp slots ticking up each time i refreshed, until it hit 64 and stopped responding for a bit :)

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my cpu is not very happy about doing anything to this mesh :)

haha, i misread. it's 523 million vertices!

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it's just 550 megabytes of mesh data. it's no biggie.

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grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 18/09/2026

what's a couple of million vertices between friends. should be fine right?

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that's like a "throw away the building and start again" type situation!

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grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 17/09/2026

so far i haven't felt the need to demote anything to 💩, but it's a useful threat to have in my back pocket.

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grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 17/09/2026

me and my flatmates used to play a game with that show when it was on daytime tv. make sure to not see the first minute or so of a segment and then try to guess what it is they're making.

grapefrukt @grapefrukt.com · 17/09/2026

the movie! what a thing! i did not know this, which is a scandal because consist of at least 10% how it's made by volume.

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oh, i'm surprised they even let you use a version that old!

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are you manually uploading those or are you just logging in to set them live?

I guess it would be? I realize I almost never use that filtering thing!

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traktormärke som avatar också. 5/5

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