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New comment by glaze in "Notes on the Complex Roots of Unity"

glaze — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 11:37:16 +0000

Reading the title, I thought this was going to be about the origins of the Unity game engine.

New comment by glaze in "My first contribution to Linux"

glaze — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:15:19 +0000

Nice, torille!

I also got my first and so far only kernel patch submitted years ago:

On my MacBook Pro 2010 with GeForce 320M running any OpenGL application, even glxgears, would crash because it ran out of memory. So I dug into nouveau drm code and found out that some memory related function was using wrong code path for that GPU.

It took some time to figure out how to submit a patch but it felt nice after I got it accepted.

I didn't even know about those patch sanity-checking scripts back then, they look useful for potential future patches!

New comment by glaze in "Kazakhstan president proposes reforms to limit his powers"

glaze — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 15:42:38 +0000

His successor was Mauno Koivisto.

New comment by glaze in "size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer"

glaze — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 17:20:30 +0000

If you initialize it like this you get a warning:

x = { size };

New comment by glaze in "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III"

glaze — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:39:40 +0000

You're right that it's not free. But compared to the whole game engine codebase size the renderer backend is usually not big.

New comment by glaze in "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III"

glaze — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:35:06 +0000

Yup, I doubt he has experience working in the games industry. Many engines support multiple graphics APIs and there's often only 1-2 employees implementing/maintaining them so speaking about vendor lock-in is not a strong argument.

New comment by glaze in "Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, Part III"

glaze — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:30:57 +0000

Supporting both Vulkan and Metal in a game engine is not a huge task. I work in the games industry, my job is to implement and maintain graphics backends to a renderer engine, so I can speak from experience.

New comment by glaze in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

glaze — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 16:33:46 +0000

Aether3D Game Engine (Linux/Windows/mac/iOS, Vulkan/D3D12/Metal)

https://github.com/bioglaze/aether3d

Some people like making games, I like making game engines. I don't have a specific goal/target in mind while making it. I've written several game engines since the nineties, and this is my most recent version.

I have abandoned many of my older engines at some point to develop a new one, but with this engine I'll try to keep developing it a lot further before making a new engine.

New comment by glaze in "The Legend of GayBlade"

glaze — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 07:22:16 +0000

It was called like that also in Finland in the 80s/early 90s.

New comment by glaze in "Ask HN: What did you work on in 2017?"

glaze — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 17:41:50 +0000

I worked on my side project, a cross-platform game engine: https://github.com/bioglaze/aether3d

In 2017 I mostly worked on the engine's Vulkan and D3D12 support. In 2018 I plan to add Android support and physically-based rendering.

I sometimes also blog about the development: https://bioglaze.blogspot.fi/

New comment by glaze in "The D Garbage Collector"

glaze — Mon, 20 Mar 2017 19:05:07 +0000

Quantum Break is a modern Xbox One & PC game and uses D in some subsystems.

New comment by glaze in "Star Citizen developers intend to drop DirectX support and only support Vulkan"

glaze — Sun, 19 Mar 2017 14:27:46 +0000

No. Mantle, on which Vulkan is based on, was AMD only. AMD gave it to Khronos and it evolved into Vulkan.

New comment by glaze in "New DirectX Shader Compiler Based on Clang/LLVM Open-Sourced"

glaze — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:08:48 +0000

The tax of supporting multiple APIs is not always huge. I recall reading that Unreal's Vulkan support was done by 1 or 2 employees.

New comment by glaze in "GPU folks: we need to talk about control flow"

glaze — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 16:14:51 +0000

One reason is that shaders are stored as text and require each driver vendor to write parsers for them and not everyone implements them in the same way.

New comment by glaze in "Pascal GPUs on All Fronts Push Nvidia to New Highs"

glaze — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 12:37:25 +0000

I don't think the lock-in in the case of graphics APIs is too bad, because even for large codebases implementing a new graphics API support is often done by one or two persons.

New comment by glaze in "Magic Leap goes to Finland in pursuit of VR and AR talent"

glaze — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 18:18:50 +0000

Get Unity or Unreal. Unity uses C#, Unreal uses C++ or a visual scripting system called Blueprints.

New comment by glaze in "How to Make an RPG"

glaze — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 12:12:49 +0000

Oceanhorn is very Zelda-like, originally made for iOS but later ported to many other platforms. It got great reviews and is not free-to-play.

New comment by glaze in "VNC Roulette"

glaze — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 17:10:52 +0000

I wouldn't leave my bike unlocked in Helsinki. Just last year my bike was stolen near the Parliament house (Kiasma) even though it was locked to the stand.

New comment by glaze in "How Vulkan maps to mobile tile-based GPUs"

glaze — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:25:54 +0000

NVIDIA recently updated their mainline driver to support it on Windows and Linux. AMD's support is in beta driver and only for Windows.

New comment by glaze in "Sweden's tradition of watching Donald Duck cartoons on Christmas Eve (2009)"

glaze — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:19:52 +0000

I live in Espoo, but spent my childhood/adolescence in Turku.