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## Tooling Updates

### [Blackjack]

![Blackjack: A height field terrain built from a noise function being edited in
real time](blackjack.gif)

[Blackjack] by @setzer22 is a procedural modeling application made in Rust,
using rend3, wgpu, and egui. It follows the steps of applications like Houdini,
or Blender's geometry nodes project and provides a node-based environment to
compose procedural recipes to create 3d models.

The past couple months have been busy for Blackjack, the work continues with a
focus of filling in all the missing bits to enable usage in more indie gamedev
workflows.

Some of the changes include:

- New nodes for geometry editing, like: _Resample curve_, _Point cloud_,
_Polygon_, _Line from points_ or _Edit geometry_.
- A new type of mesh, the height map with its set of nodes.
- A way to import OBJ meshes into procedural graphs.
- Bug fixes in extrude and bevel nodes, making them more robust and handle more
kinds of meshes.
- A new DragValue widget offering more precise control when tweaking parameters.
- Smoother camera controls and various editor UX improvements.

Blackjack has no release notes yet, but make sure to check out the recently
merged PRs ([1][blackjack-pr-1], [2][blackjack-pr-2], [3][blackjack-pr-3]) for a
more in-depth summary of the changes and lots of animated gifs.

On the social side, a first [blog post][blackjack-blog-post] in a series was
published on Ko-fi showing a real gamedev use case using Blackjack and the Godot
engine together to implement a racing game. Additionally, Blackjack now has a
[Twitter account][blackjack-twitter]. Consider following both for more frequent
updates!

Currently, development is focused on implementing the next major feature:
Gizmos. There are [some initial results][blackjack-gizmos], and the full PR for
it is expected to land sometime during November.

[Blackjack]: https://github.com/setzer22/blackjack
[blackjack-pr-1]: https://github.com/setzer22/blackjack/pull/45
[blackjack-pr-2]: https://github.com/setzer22/blackjack/pull/46
[blackjack-pr-3]: https://github.com/setzer22/blackjack/pull/52
[blackjack-gizmos]: https://twitter.com/Blackjack3dRust/status/1587900630718615552
[blackjack-blog-post]: https://ko-fi.com/post/New-nodes-Improved-Lua-bindings-and-lots-of-QoL-i-S6S6FK40S
[blackjack-twitter]: https://twitter.com/Blackjack3dRust

## Library Updates

### [presser]
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