Hucklebee @ Drummyralf @lemmy.world

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As someone who dabbled in gamedev (no expert though), I would find it hard to find a solution for the UI problem. The base of many UI implementation is always a reference screen resolution where stuff gets resized and/or stretched according to the width of the monitor. So if a minimap is, let's say, placed 40 pixels from the edge of the screen, it will always be 40 pixels from the edge of the screen. Creating custom UI's for every resolution would be really timeconsuming.

Maybe some day it will be the standard that you allow people to customize the UI and drag things around themselves. But for now, such systems are not readily available in game engines and would have to be custom built.

I always thought monitor clamp arms were stupid until I saw in real life how much space it saves. It is so worth it to have more desk space and to keep your desk clean (literally and figuratively).

No problem!

-Yabridge is still actively being developped. The developer responds to issues on it's Github frequently.

-Ableton 11.x currently has gold status on WineDB. other versions have varying ratings bronze to platinum.

-I don't use iLok plugins a lot, but I just tried installing one. iLok gave an error for me. Some searching gave me a thread about a user that got a specific iLok version to work though, so you may need to experiment with this yourself: This thread

I don't know much about CLAP since I always used VSTs (Cubase user after all :P ). I hope more developers will implement it as an alternative, but I don't have high hopes. .Au could only become a standard because of Apple's willingness to not support VSTs in Logic. I'm not sure if a third-party format can shift that much weight. All DAWS either support VST, AU or AAX and I don't think developers want ANOTHER format to maintain.

Hah, cool. Kind of like a small community version of DeviantArt. I dig it!

Boardgame Arena is a great site indeed!

All great and valuable links. Thanks! Archive has so many usecases. I recently used it to get some design inspiration for old 50's and 60's catalogs and magazines. Plenty of retro and vintage stuff to find! GifCities from the Archive.org team is also great :)

Steinberg plugins are not working at all for me. I have Absolute 4 and Cubase Artist 12.

The licensing app installs fine. However, the download center cannot be installed. If you download the installers directly from Steinberg, those don't install.

I did have some luck with downloading Steinberg installers on a windows pc with download assistant, and then opening THOSE installers on Linux. They installed correctly this way and Yabridge (vst bridge for Linux) even identified them correctly. But the vsts would crash on start.

Yabridge is essential to using VSTs on Linux. Works great from my experience, IF the vst actually can start at all. But that is never a Yabridge problem, always a VST specific Wine problem.

Arturia stuff can be installed without any problems (through wine)

Spitfire's recent update broke things.

From what I've seen, Ableton is pretty nicely supported by the Wine community. But any Ableton or Wine update can break things, so you'll need to have Wine and Ableton updates freezed if you want a hasslefree life.

Hardware stuff I had no problems with for now, but I have mostly simple midi controllers. I have an external soundcard (UR22 mk2), so my latency is as low on Windows. I use Pipewire, because PulseAudio seems to sometimes give problems being detected by VSTs.

For now I cannot recommend anyone that has extensive VST libraries to fully commit to Linux. The support is simply not there yet. Wine is not reliable enough, and I would hate to be stopped by a Wine error when inspiration hits. You'll be troubleshooting for days to hopefully get your favourite VSTs working, and pray they don't break when they update.

I dual boot for now. Music and VR on Windows, all other tasks on Linux. I'm considering making stems for all my projects so I could switch to a different DAW with only Arturia plugins in the future. But I'm not ready yet.

I'm not a super expert, but I did try very hard to get my steinberg stuff and Spitfire Labs working. Feel free to ask any followup questions.

The biggest pet peeve I have with modern hardware versions is that in a laptop, the same hardware performs similair to a lower version of a desktop variant.

Don't call it a 3070TI if it performs like a 3060TI. Just call it a 3060 TI from the start.

Maybe a bit the other way around: I replaced specialized gadgets with a simpler "tool"

Since I switched from "specialized" clips for food bags to simple clothespins, my life is so much easier.

Clothespins are easier to get on food bags and easier to get off.

The door of the castle church of Wittenberg with Luther's 95 theses nailed on them.

Found two sound/music generating websites (before AI music was cool):

Adventuremachine

Patapap. This one also has some other interesting sites in it's footer (on desktop)

I agree, I love when a site is focused.

Like I said in another comment, got some big YourTheManNowDog vibes from these. Used to browse their random site visitor a lot back in the day.

Also, love how yyyyyyy seems to be a randomized site.

Whoa, Vimm's lair is amazing! I especially like that they also have scans of manuals from old games. I'm still missing some in my collection.

Z2 is kind of hard to find with Google. Do you mean z2comics?

The first time I tried an olive as a kid, I thought I grabbed a grape.

Needless to say, I hate olives.

Clickclickclick is such a great eye opener. And I'll definately will spend some time searching artists I like on Everynoise. Other two also added to my bookmarks for later viewing. Great links!

I feel insecure about my current shoelaces now.

Big ytmnd vibes

Aww, the site says that Linux doesn't support Vsync :( Useful for my Windows install though!

What a treasure trove! At first glance I love all the ASCII art. But some of the texts feel like you're browsing some old Reddit/4chan posts. Will take me a while to get through all the gems!

Oh goodness... Why did you have to introduce me to a clicker game?. Welp, I guess I'll cancel all my appointments for the next few days.