Steve Troughton-SmithMar 2
Back at it
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Tile-based multi-pass Metal raytracer
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Operating well outside of my level of expertise here with Codex, but it's doing a pretty credible job at a lot of complex Metal rendering code I would never be able to wrap my head around

(Ignore the UV issues)

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'We have Valence at home!'
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You can just do stuff, now. It's wild.
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I'm not yet sure what the end goal is here, but I'm making a lot of progress regardless
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Y'all know I'm using UIKit/Catalyst, right?
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I started with a blank project template 5 hours ago. Now I've got a little 3D scene graph editor with gizmos, wireframe and shaded view modes, texturing, drag and drop OBJ file importing, and tile-based raytraced rendering, that runs on Mac and iPad.

Thanks Codex!

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Some more glamour shots of this 3D app in the iPad Simulator
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OBJ drag and drop
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Multi-select and grouping
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6720 loc
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You know what I really could use at WWDC?

Teach a generative model to build high-quality vector SF Symbols so we can make custom ones, like say a full set for 3D modeling suites or PencilKit drawing apps, on demand 👀

…asking for a friend…

@stern

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@stroughtonsmith @stern what we need is a blender-light
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@takeitev @stern Apple hired the Valence dev for its design team! Valence should just be part of Creator Studio 😅
Mar 3 at 9:43amIvory for Mac
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@stroughtonsmith @stern that would be nice. But given how bad Creator Studio is, with its upsell nags - I hope it won't be. But who knows. World needs something like blender - free and good, but "light" . I know how to use blender but I still have to look up tutorials from time to time to do basic things. It has soooo many features!