[corysama]

Newbies showing off their first triangle are welcome over in r/gameenginedevs/ and r/GraphicsProgramming/ :)

[Cieric]

Do you know of any communities outside of reddit? It's not exactly my favorite place to hang out.

[corysama]

There are active Discords for "Vulkan", "DirectX" and "Graphics Programming".

https://gamedev.net/forums/ is the classic hang-out spot.

[ramon156]

For rust, the bevy community is pretty great

[khalladay]

mastodon.gamedev.place is a thing

[mdaniel]

I'm sad that Lemmy didn't catch on, I had high hopes for a distributed Reddit replacement

But I think it's a combination of "people have short memories" and "people don't like change"

[MrDrMcCoy]

I think discoverability and fragmentation are bigger problems that the fediverse needs to solve for adoption to take off.

[Animats]

That's the problem. The generic graphics groups are mostly newbies. More advanced stuff is on engine-specific boards.

[bluescrn]

The other problem is that modern graphics APIs got so complex that they're intimidating even to experienced developers.

That 'first triangle on screen' code can now look something like this - https://github.com/KhronosGroup/Vulkan-Samples/blob/main/sam... - compared to the simpler old days of OpenGL (https://github.com/gamedev-net/nehe-opengl/blob/master/vc/Le...)

[Animats]

That's the argument for general-purpose rendering engines. These offer an API comparable to three.js. The API at that level is much easier to deal with than the API at the Vulkan level. Usually, about a page of code will put a glTF model on the screen.

But fast, general purpose rendering engines are hard. Not impossible, just hard. In open source land, we have about a half dozen examples of My First Rendering Engine, and they mostly work. But they don't scale.