First post on aether & shaders! This is going to be a personal engineering blog that covers a little bit of everything regarding graphics programming, MMO architecture, general game design, studying Japanese, and any other thing I might find interesting!
Who the hell are you?
Glad you asked, I’m James! I’ve been working for about 6 years professionally as a dev and wanted to go deeper into developing systems I find interesting. Along with development, I’m always had a keen interest in playing MMOs especially FFXIV, the critically acclaimed MMORPG now with a free trial now including Shadowbringers (Square pls hire me), so I’ll be working on figuring out the systems that go in them as well! My main interest is graphics programming though, I like the idea of being able to see my work and this type of programming makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!
What am I going to talk about?
Posts here will fall into a few categories:
- Graphics — shader breakdowns, rendering techniques, GPU programming
- Engineering — distributed systems, architecture, tooling
- Japanese — language study, culture, etc
- Notes — shorter observations, bookmarks, drafts of thought
Let’s test out some components here!
To go along with future articles, I’ll make sure on this article to test out the different components I have, so that I can show off the type of work I’m doing.
Here is an embedded shader viewport so we can verify that I can play with shaders:
You get a code block!
Here’s some C++ code to verify code blocks look great:
std::cout << "hello, world!" << std::endl;Last thing!
This blog is my own perspective, you’re effectively going to be reading about my learning unfamiliar concepts, systems, and ideas in general, so go easy on me and help a guy out! Thanks in advance!