As for the fragmentation of progress, I guess that's just par the course for any tech with a such a heavy private/open source split. It would take a huge amount of work to trawl through this constant stream of 'breakthroughs' and put them all together.

The animation's still there — and my PC is better now, so it doesn't stutter — but I'm willing to bet it's still burning waaay too many watts, for something so trivial.

I'd implore anyone with even a passing interest in VGM to find their favorite game on OC Remix and listen to some of the different remixes people have made. It's all very good stuff!

Edit: Along with the fact that blender has a lot of non destructive workflow steps (that usually get baked out into the "bitmap", to further your analogy)

I've honestly wished I could use it to make vector graphics sometimes, but that also needs some of the basic elements of CAD (parallel edges, radius constraints etc). It's so close to parametric modeling too, with the mesh modifiers, drivers, and now geo-nodes.

Of course, I believe there are a few CAD plugins, but I've never used them, so I can't speak to their efficacy.

I've played with it a bit (I made a local nonsense social media thing, reading llm content), and its surprisingly easy to get text to display in sync with the audio. It works with voices that are installed on the users system.

I'm sure that's all harder than it sounds. But I doubt it's the same "wall of no" as muscles in a vat.

Maybe it's because it's (mostly) markup, but Pug is the only whitespace language that I really gel with. I wish it had more support across the board! Maybe it's the years of Emmet use that's got me biased. I remember getting excited about both of these before they each changed names.

Side note to the creator: the color listener names are different from the emit names.