aevaI started learning Houdini tonight. And by Houdini, I mean Blender Geometry Nodes :3
I'm hoping to construct an ad-hoc level editor for my driving game thing and export point sets for object placement, curves for the roads, and height maps for elevation. I'm not sure how to make blender shit out a sparse height map, but I'm sure I'll find some abominable way to do it with python.
I wonder if my old wacom tablet still works 🤔
weird, pressure sensitivity doesn't seem to work anymore, but otherwise it seems fine???
ok the gnome wacom settings test panel thing shows the pressure sensitivity working just fine, so I guess it's just the gimp that's the problem hopefully
aaand it crashes blender :|
there's too much linux in here >:(
yup completely random which applications it works with. blender doesn't pick it up at all?
by any chance is this yet another thing wayland fucked up?
I'm gonna have to install Windows again to use this thing aren't I
Yup. It's wayland. again! it's always fucking wayland! I hate you so much wayland. The tablet works fine with Blender if I restart Gnome in Xorg mode. This operating system is such a fucking joke my hands are shaking with anger right now.
If you're going to wander into my mentions to tell me that it's good actually preferred even that the wayland team broke an entire ecosystem of applications that was working just fine for the last 20 years, do me a favor and just go block yourself instead? I'm not in the mood.
when linux gives you wayland you burn linux's house down
I made some progress tonight on learning #GeometryNodes! I made a little relief with an elevation map of Kauaʻi and a blue noise texture to hide the banding.
it's amazing how much blender has changed since i first spent several hours making a shitty gingerbread man in it back in '02
I remarked to someone that the cost of [open source thing] is "you get what you pay for", and was thinking about how that always sounds snarky and mean but it's totally true and it works. I subscribed to "Blender Cloud" years ago for the tutorials and left the ten bucks a month faucet on for all this time and look what all it can do now :O
jordan@aeva aeva i swear to god what is with your theme choices 
Thomas Sturm@aeva Cool theme! Never even thought of Blender having theming choices. 😅
I'm interested in the drawing roads on height maps thing... So you actually create the "road" first and then have the geo nodes create a fitting height map?
@tsturm yeah sorta. I made the height map with noise nodes first, then drew the spline into a separate object for where I wanted the road to be, then pulled that into the geometry node graph to modify the elevation of the terrain
@tsturm as for the theme choices, there's a ton of them available as optional theme extensions you can install through the official extension repository thing
@aeva I somehow never thought of it that way round - it's always been "how do I ever make this road fit the terrain?" [head desk]
kb@aeva nice theme
cassie@aeva omen suzanne
Evie 🏳️⚧️
Julian H@aeva this will be houdini in 2013
halcy 
@aeva and generally for the better, too
@halcy absolutely
if you remember Blender 2.7 your knees hurt #b3d #blender3d #blender #3dart #meme #song #cover
Legion495@aeva Making shit in Blender 🎵
Miss Aemilia🎀@aeva What blew me away is how fast new contributions and contributors steamrolled in once we got the new ui in 2.80. Genuine paradigm shift, blender became something every 3D industry started watching overnight, instead of that weird hobbyist program no one worth their salt actually used and all that other nonsense.
@MissAemilia all this after like decades of ton saying no we can't just peel off the ui and put a better one on
@aeva
In a way, I'm glad it took a long time because a lot of care, consideration and effort got put into the new UI and that all clearly paid off.
In a way, I'm glad it took a long time because a lot of care, consideration and effort got put into the new UI and that all clearly paid off.
Ronflaix@aeva Started with 2.4x. So much has changed but it's still so firmly lodged in my heart.
Josh Jersild@aeva I avoided it for so long because of like 20 year old memories of how shitty it was, but it's good now?? I used it to match a camera move in a video project a while back and it was great actually???
Mittzy@aeva I'm a tiny baby ('06) so have no recollection of that long ago, yet it's so different to how it was even ten years ago when I first got in to it at age... Eight? nine? It's such a better experience to use it now. What portion of that opinion is up to me no longer being eight years old is up to interpretation but I think it's definitely changed for the better lol
@aeva Your theme colors are baffling to me. 
DDR@aeva ooh, very foresty! ♥️
Efi (nap pet) 🦊💤@aeva wayLAND A METEOR ON YOUR ROOF
Panic In The Darkroom@efi no! they rebuilt my roof like just a year or two ago D:
@aeva stupid linux keeps breaking everything!
@efi I mean "linux" is literally finnish for "broken because some idiot tried to fix it"
Janne@janvenetor @efi I imagine fucking up that bad and not being able to admit it for 15 years
Cogito ergo mecagoendios@aeva I suppose you know the accessibility screen reader thing?
@elrohir not first hand, but I heard they basically said fuck blind people?
@aeva yup. Apparently everyone got the hots for sandboxing nowadays so in Wayland apps cannot read each other's raw screen buffers to prevent leaks. This fucks screen readers and I'll bet is what fucked Wacom too. But God forbid someone who installs Linux would be dumb enough to download a keylogger on accident.
@elrohir the paranoid will ruin computers for the rest of us :/
Max Cahill@aeva guaranteed way to not be allowed near my computer is to try to convince me it's "much better now"
datenwolf@aeva it's not Linux, it's the morons of Freedesktop.org who overcomplicate everything and have zero grasp of the actual problem space.
I think I was one of the first people to rant about it. However when I had that burn-out episode I nuked my old web presence and also deleted backups. Anyway, there is something on wayback but somehow incomplete. https://web.archive.org/web/20141012072429/http://datenwolf.net/bl20110930-0001/
John Kaniarz@aeva Nah, you just have to xkill it. There’s no way something as important as xkill could be broken, right? …right?
Yukari Hafner 
@aeva It's amazing how whenever you go search anything display related online you'll come across these goobers. Somehow DPI scaling is worth breaking everything for.
@shinmera my computer is unusable without fractional DPI scaling. I'd just use xorg if it supported it properly.
Chip Collier
Oblomov@shinmera @aeva the “best” part is that there was really no need to break everything to improve DPI-aware scaling in X, even without client awareness (see e.g. <https://keithp.org/blogs/window-scaling/>).
I was *just* about to comment how the only thing I've ever seen pointed to that Wayland does better was DPI scaling. Is there literally nothing else?@wagesj45 Screen tearing can also be an issue due to how X handles DRI.
Therra, Prolific Badooper@shinmera @wagesj45 my problem was that when my machine reaches 100% gpu utilization with my multimonitor setup then the monitor i have a game running on will start to look like it has really bad framerate even though the framerate counter of the game itself reports the framerate being just fine regardless of if i use just a window manager with no compositor; being on wayland somehow made this problem go away
Li ~ Crystal System
cancel@aeva nicholson_yes.gif
bob@aeva wayland is for smart tv's and car infotainment systems, not computers