Brian E.

@leetnightshade

⌨️ Unreal Engine Tools Programmer at WB Games, previously Senior Gameplay Programmer at Singularity 6, Treyarch, etc. 👾 Gamedev is my passion 🐧 Love open platforms, and Godot Engine 😷

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Brian E.@leetnightshade· 16d

The non-wild fires outside are also miserable. Second one near our apartment. 😶

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Jun 16

TIL, you can create a mutuals feed on #Mastodon, tho requires occasional manual sync. Source: github.com/untitaker/ma... - Create list w/ #mutuals hashtag. - Visit helper site: list-bot.woodland.cafe - Enter server root, like mastodon.social - Authorize access to your account - Click `Sync Now`.

Screenshot of helper site https://list-bot.woodland.cafe/ having synced a a #mutuals list, and shows others lists you have on Mastodon.

By it showing "parsed" on any hashtagged lists, it means it updated that list, not just parsed.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Mar 8

This says a lot, I feel better about the decision to try them out (see screenshot). Thanks @rileylabrecque.com for the strong recommendation! I haven't filed yet, was trying to make sure they seem like a good legit place. I feel better about the choice to try them out now. 🤗

Screenshot from Mastodon of Riley replying to the same Bsky comment I have above.

Riley Labrecque says:
> @leetNightshade I donated to freetaxusa after using it because it was just that good

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Mar 3

Hey man, I'm not proud of it. ;p (I'm actually ashamed, I don't have time to clean the space, too many more important things to do... o.o;)

Messy gamedev standing desk with a HÅG Capisco ergonomic chair.

Boxes and exercise equipment straddle the chair (sand bag, jump rope, elevated stowed away rowing machine), leaving little room to move around.
There's a cup of coffee, and flask of water, the bare dev essentials.

There's two monitors mounted atop tall monitor arm poles. There's even a laptop mount arm, where a gaming dev laptop resides. There's even an arm with a Steam Deck, though it sees little developemnt use there; maybe one day. There's also a 27" white board mounted atop an arm, above the monitors.
There's a split Ergodox keyboard, with a Logitec MX Ergo trackball; the whole setup is the epitome of ergonomics.

There's a headphone and game controller stand, flashlights, walkie talkie, usb fan, lacrosse for body tissue rolling, wrist gyro ball, display Godot Engine acrylic cubes, EUC/bike bump, screw driver bit set, allen key, toy Tech Deck picnic bench, pencil/pen stand that's from a gun revolver, Boox eink tablet for manga and digital notations, usb HDD, etc.

The desk is covered and surrounded by many started projects, the result being the dev lost their sanity a long time ago, but continues to toil away in the mess.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Dec 16

- Change #CodeGlancePro's `Markers font scale` from default of 3 to 5 - Settings search "region", Editor > Color Scheme > "Mark comment", pick preferred "Foreground" text color - Update regions' "Error stripe mark" for matching stripe color Et voila! [2/2] #CodeGlancePro #Rider #jetbrainsrider

Rider IDE Settings menu is open. Expand the Other Settings section. Then open the CodeGlance Pro (settings). Scrolled to the Mark Setting, and shows the Marker's font scale changed to 5, from 3.

Rider IDE Settings menu is open. Search for "region." Look under Editor > Color Scheme, and for your theme find the "Mark comment" to change foregound color. Update the "Rider region" etc. to update the stripe mark displayed in Rider's scrollbar, not just the stripe mark for "Mark comment."

Rider editor with C# codefile open with #region examples. The minimap scrollbar *now* shows very readable large white text rendered for every region in the file on the minimap, making it very easy to navigate regions throughout the file. This, thanks to the aforementioned settings.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Dec 16

Today I realized VSCode has nicely readable code regions in its minimap. Conversely, #CodeGlancePro for #Rider has terribly tiny region text in a gaudy green color in its minimap. I spent some time trying to figure out how to improve it, almost emailed the author for help... [1/2]

VSCode editor with C# codefile open with #region examples. The minimap scrollbar shows very readable large white text rendered for every region in the file on the minimap, making it very easy to navigate regions throughout the file.

Rider IDE editor with C# codefile open with #region examples. The minimap scrollbar shows very tiny almost unreadable small bright green text rendered for every region in the file on the minimap, making it tricky to navigate regions throughout the file.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Oct 10

We recently started fostering a dog from the #LosAngeles North Central animal shelter, and she's the sweetest prey driven dog I've ever met. Meet... Pumpkin.🥺 #animals #pets #dogs #FosteringSavesLives #LAdog #LAdogs

Beautifully cute shepherd cattle dog mix sitting in the grass near and looking up at a pine like tree waiting patiently for any squirrel to present itself.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Sep 15

Today is World #Lymphoma #Awareness Day. Our beautiful #dog Kaia developed GI lymphoma, and was quickly taken from us. We were forced to release her from her suffering just last week. Apparently unlike in humans, dog chemotherapy is only to ease suffering, it does not help reverse the disease.

Shows a <61 lbs dog (usually 73lbs) sick dog laying down, half on her dog bed, half on the rug on the faux wood vinyl floor.
Her leg and tummy are shaved a bit from a series of Internal Medicine exams to diagnose her.
It's hard to tell from the picture since she's laying down, but she's lost a lot of muscle mass and is very thin.
This picture is from 1 day before she was released from her mortal suffering, since she stopped eating and was in more and more lethargic and not doing great on average, even with a series of meds supporting her.
She was happy until the end, being stubborn and fighting on.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Aug 28

This isn't exactly needy, but the square patterns felt videogamey to me. We have these for our hallway for our old dog. Comes in different colors, and they have different lengths. a.co/d/9yPnCfO

Riverish looking rug, white on the edges that dithers/gradients to blue in the middle. It's topped by a repeating square pattern that delicately contrasts with the main color, changing depending on the backing color to maintain a light contrast. Looks beautiful.
The middle blue layer helps the rug not bounce too much light, but at night the lighter edges bounce what little light there is so you can see where the edges of your hall is. Great light to dark color variation.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Aug 28

This is my proudest artwork. 🥰 Meet, Indestructo Pig... www.deviantart.com/leetnightsha...

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Aug 5

Here's the leather mod I did for mine years ago: (see attached image). How's your faux leather holding up, surely deteriorated by now?

8+ year old (I forget how old here) ATH-M50 headphones with soft maroon velour ear cups, and replaced faux leather with real leather on the headband.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Jul 25

I want to add EzArgs to @jetbrains-rider.bsky.social toolbar, but on a vertical monitor there's no more toolbar space! It hides tools like Settings, and shrinks textfields. Rider has inherent space between it's left|center|right toolbars, if I could eliminate, might just work. 🤔 #gamedev problems

Rider IDE main toolbar, everything is spaced out nicely, textfields are juust readable.

Rider IDE main toolbar, source control and project configuration textfields aren't readable only showing a few characters. Tool buttons are hidden like Settings, etc.

Removing separators doesn't help, Rider seems to have inherent spacing between left | center | right toolbars.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Jun 7

If you thought @theatlantic.com was a beacon of journalism in these trying times, perhaps time to think again. #TheAtlantic #Politics

The Atlantic publication is trying to tell us Trump's birthday military parade is good for America and not just an ego driving waste of taxpayer money while also causing damage to taxpayer roads.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· May 30

TIL, #Windows Snipping Tool (Win+Shift+S to start a snip without needing to open the tool) allows you to do image to text easily. After taking a screen shot, hit the `Text Action` button, then you can select all the text you want easily.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· May 21

Sorry I copied the layer without your image, so i failed at trying to be helpful to anyone curious. And I already closed it. >.> But hey, looks MUCH better. Nice work!

steam game distribution software list of games and how the thumbnails compare and contrast, how readable the text and objects are in the thumbnails

Brian E.@leetnightshade· May 21

Took me a week to realize what "Capsule" is from similar posts on r/IndieDev. 😁 I thought your most recent text was small, but after browsing Steam, seems fair enough compared to some titles. Idk if you've visualized it, but I wanted to. Not the best clarity/contrast/readability, but not too bad.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Jan 8

Vidgrid for tracking sources covering the #LosAngeles fires: vidgrid.tk.gg?layout=N4IgN...

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Oct 17

My #Linux journey on this relatively new Legion 5i laptop has been rough to say the least. #Gnome (not shown) and #KDE (shown) both have issues. Endeavor, Manjaro, Fedora Atomic, every distro I throw at it has eventual letdowns. ☹️

KDE with bugged offset toolbar, can't use start menu or toolbar, DE is mostly unusable.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Apr 3

The Software Architecture of Palia: www.singularity6.com/news/softwar... #Palia #gamedev

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Feb 17

Success! Next is to try installing VoidLinux!

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Oct 20

There we go, I disabled it. Clicking on the Gear allowed me to reset. Then hitting Edit it shows up as disabled in Desktop layout.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Aug 22

D'oh, I'm using the wrong image, internal only one. 🤦

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Aug 22

No cigar.

Brian E.@leetnightshade· Aug 20

Hello world!