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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  trust the lighting would work in a life-like manner

  Ah we’ve had raytracing for a long time already, and you can download something like Blender and play around with it yourself. You’ll quickly discover that just because it conforms to some real-world principles (and works in a reliable manner) doesn’t mean it’s a magic tool that Just Works and immediately makes anything look good.

  You still have to setup your world lighting (point/sun lights, skyboxes, emissive materials, whatever), adjust it to get the look you want, and your hardware requirement for testing this are now increased.

  Raytracing is nice because it can make things look even better, not because it replaces parts of the workflow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns on raytracing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is absolutely nothing about raytracing which makes it “easier” for devs compared to a traditional render pipeline.

  The extra performance rquirements alone mean you’re going to be doing more work elsewhere to make up for it, and that’s ignoring the current bugs/quirks with RT in whatever engine you’re using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to download videos from youtube⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can add it as a right-click option to Firefox:

  • Install: webextension.org/…/external-application-button.ht…
  • In the Extension options, add an application
  • Name it something like “Open in YT-DLP: mp4”
  • Set the exe name to the path of a local copy of yt-dlp
  • Set the arguments to be -S res,ext:mp4:m4a --recode mp4 [HREF]
  • Under the Placement options -> Context Menu -> select “All Contexts”

  You should now be able to right click on a YouTube page and choose “External Application launcher -> Open in YT-DLP: mp4”

  If you want audio only, add another application in the extension settings and use the arguments -f ba[ext=m4a] [HREF] for m4a files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to download videos from youtube⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Might need an update. Just fixed mine by grabbing the latest release from 2 weeks ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to download videos from youtube⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use the OpenWith extensions to add it as a right click option.

  I have this setup for my non-technical family members, so they just right click on the page choose open with -> ytdlp and it saves it to their downloads folder.

  You can set up different options for example video or audio only.