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Jovanni "ContextLost" Cutigni

@ContextLostRBX

Principal Engineer and architect for a bunch of simulation and "digital matter" projects at Roblox.

 San Mateo, CA
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Last week at Roblox. Time for something different. Just don't know what yet.
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To me, the thing that most defines Roblox as an engine is welds. What is the source of truth for how things move relatively? An explicit tree defined by the user, or an implicit, derived one from physical connections between objects?
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It's such an unconventional and eclectic choice, but it's a defining choice that the world is defined in terms of these real-world analogous connections, not the ones most obvious for implementing a simulator at a lower level.
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Been working on this thing in various forms for almost 2 years. It's crazy what it's taken to get this far. We're getting so close... devforum.roblox.com/t/studio…
[Studio Beta] Major updates to in-experience Mesh & Image APIs

[Studio Beta] Major updates to in-experience Mesh & Image APIs

Update 11/20/24: Hello Creators, As we have been promising since the initial Studio beta announcement and then again in the recent update, we have been working hard on a new workflow to enable shared...

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When you work on Roblox long enough
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@TheGamer1016 Oct 2024
This week I made the largest Roblox Engine API change of my career. It's mostly an internal change, nothing super exciting yet, but I'm interested to see what people will think of the API dump update next week.
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The only reason software estimation is impossible is nobody accepts uncertainty. You give someone a range, they pick a single number, add up those scalars and get a meaningless result.
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People fighting over charging spots has become a new staple of the modern office dystopia.
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Working on EditableImage safety wondering "why me, why this," and someone compared something to one of our text filtering guidelines. One I wrote. 6 years ago. Oh no. No no no.
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You shouldn't be allowed to rewrite an existing system until you're capable of giving it at least one sincere and thoughtful compliment.
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A lot of problem solving is just understanding the problem in *excruciating* detail. Once you're there the solution tends to just fall in your lap.
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There's also a weird cycle. Sometimes spitballing bad solutions and poking holes in them is a great way to find more non-obvious requirements.
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If you're an experienced developer that wants to spend some time on the inside learning the ins and outs, Community Apprenticeship was just announced today. devforum.roblox.com/t/285770…
We’re Hiring - Come Join Us at Roblox!

We’re Hiring - Come Join Us at Roblox!

Hi Creators! Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work for Roblox? Do you have ideas on how Roblox can improve and innovate? Then, we have the program for you! This year, we’re launching our...

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Nice to see a lot of teams internally excited to focus on performance and improving developer pain points. Feels good, feeling optimistic.
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Cool to see people actually trying this. It was one of my favorite theoretical use cases when we were designing these APIs.
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Sad though, I don't think it's going to be a great fit for effects and simulation in the first release though.
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@Roblox1 Dec 2023
Mesh and Image APIs have landed in Studio beta. With direct Lua access to meshes and images, creators can build real-time collaborative experiences that unleash the creativity of their users. #RobloxDev devforum.roblox.com/t/introd…
Introducing in-experience Mesh & Image APIs [Studio Beta]

Introducing in-experience Mesh & Image APIs [Studio Beta]

I was going to talk about how amazing I believe this feature would be yet this paragraph has bogged me down quite a bit. Yes, I do respect the privacy of asset creators however avatar assets are...

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@TheGamer1011 Dec 2023
I spent a lot of time working on EditableImage this past year, excited to finally see it in Developers' hands as part of a Studio beta! devforum.roblox.com/t/introd…
Introducing in-experience Mesh & Image APIs [Studio Beta]

Introducing in-experience Mesh & Image APIs [Studio Beta]

Update 9/25/2024 TL;DR EditableMesh and EditableImage are now available in Studio-beta and give you direct Luau access to Mesh and Image data at runtime. Important Caveats: Publishing edited Meshes /...

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Clue: Corporate Collapse
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BitwiseAndrea@BitwiseAndrea10 Nov 2023
The #RobloxInnovationAwards turned out amazing because of so many reasons and thanks to the hard work of so many people 🥰 ...but I can't decide if I'm more pleased by the fact we had captions (enabled by DEFAULT 🎉 ) in 15 languages, or that I got to cameo as Gang o' Fries 🍟
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