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  1. Oops, I hope commit 16666 opened no gateways to Hell

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      @demagogue It's like - if the first 15 nuclear reactor experiments were successful, then it's safe from now on LOL

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  2. Boris Johnson's resignation does not change the fact that Australia is home to 29 million kangaroos and Wales has a population of just over three million.

    If the Australian kangaroos were to invade Wales, one resident would have to fight almost ten kangaroos at a time.

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      ...or change anything at all, except the face looking down on you from your TV.

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  3. I'm beginning to understand why people who aren't into social clubbing "don't last long" on this project, and why it's so full of holes. When moderators are siding with bullies, by closing down threads that they derail, then I start to wonder if I should support the platform to begin with.

    I'm sure that the core development is solid, but when you're constantly tone policed and bullied, and moderators are playing into it too, then the project will just drive away talent, and replace it with socialites instead. ...and without talent, you only end up with a small skeleton crew trying to do everything themselves.

    ...so Dragofer and Airship Ballet, and all you other socialites, you win. From now on I'll just keep to myself. You'll never be able to do my work, but at least you'll be happy together, and that's what matters to you.

     

    Update

    Actually, I have to revise my statement:
    I actually messaged greebo - the top dog, I gather - about nbohr1more's outburst of insanity below, and since I haven't even heard back from him, I just have to assume that there's not a single core programmer here, who's not backing nbohr's threats. ...and that's bad.

    ...so if you're a newbie reading this, or an honest soul like ZergRush, then just slowly back out of these forums, run, and don't look back. This is nothing more than a cult posing as a game development project, using Thief and IDTech4 to sucker hopefuls in, to do work for them, while trying to cajole them into something going on behind the scenes, which apparently - according to nbohr - is something that should be hidden from the state. These people aren't programmers - they don't even understand things like how to fix the simplest bugs. All they have, is an engine, and an IP, and some sort of fascist social cult. There was some other project I saw being made in the Unreal Engine. Try joining that project. ...or start a project of your own. Anything but this asylum.

    Hopefully that was "divisive" enough for a final post, because at this point I really want people to leave this place. This project is, on a management level, just awful garbage, run by garbage people, apparently from the top down, and I'm just glad that they have a garbage place to stay, together, and hopefully forever.

    Nort

  4. I vaguely recall someone recently complained about two-sided materials (curtains?) not getting lighting from both sides

    I just found a piece of code that's supposed to do just that

    Where was that discussed? (@nbohr1more?)

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      I don't understand

      Does it only work with inverted blue channel? Because there's another way to achieve it.

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  5. I vaguely recall someone recently complained about two-sided materials (curtains?) not getting lighting from both sides

    I just found a piece of code that's supposed to do just that

    Where was that discussed? (@nbohr1more?)

  6. I vaguely recall someone recently complained about two-sided materials (curtains?) not getting lighting from both sides

    I just found a piece of code that's supposed to do just that

    Where was that discussed? (@nbohr1more?)

  7. Since Aluminum directed me here ( https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/9082-newbie-darkradiant-questions/page/437/#comment-475263 ) can we have unlimited renderer effects? Well, maybe not unlimited, by maybe 3-5? Thanks.

     

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      We can probably have a limited implementation of translucent sorting. Please create a dedicated forum thread and attach a test map.

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  8. I don't want to mention internet platforms or names or topics, but some people are really, really upset over things, while I'm not.

    I've accepted that it's just not my place to "rage against the machine". We just live in a world, filled with billions of people, and sometimes we're punished for being born, and sometimes we live in a country where we just have to starve to death, and that's just life. What you can do about that, is basically to pick up a grain of sand in a desert, and throw it as far as you can with all your might, and if you're lucky, you'll just hurt somebody else's eye with it.

    ...and to some people I'm a bad guy simply for being this apathetic, and not wanting to devote my life to some cause for some imagined "justice" instead of just getting my own life in order. I just want to do my dishes and pay my bills, internet-politics-guys, and you want to spirit me away to rallies and protests, and want to trick me into being upset, and shame me if I'm not, over some theoretical ideals that won't ever apply to me in the first place.

    I don't buy into this "justice" or "rights" thing, or this idea of humanity as some sort of happy family that we should be in support of. Can't I have "that right"? Can't I have the right to just pay my bills and take care of myself in peace? Yes, maybe some day the government will ship me off to some labour camp or prison, but that's just what these people are paid to do, and have always been paid to do, whether they actually do it, or just frivolously rape people when nobody's looking. All you're doing is moving the line about, trying to decide which people to send to the camps over what issue. There isn't some state of "absolute justice". All you're doing is bullying people.

    You're so obsessed and upset over such nonsense, and it's not productive at all. The cops are not your friends, and they will never stand up for you.

    Anyway, back to being productive.

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      Thanks, Nort, I enjoyed your little dissidence, on this forum of all places

      Even if misdirected and passive-aggressive in its root, but it's the best kind of passive-aggressive, if such thing exists

      Did you manage to confront the source of your discomfort and was it productive?

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  9. I find it alarming that 5 missions with 2.10-only elements take 15% of space among all 158 released missions.

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      I find it alarming that core assets get more irrelevant as years pass by. In 2022 it's expected to have gigabytes of textures. And we don't want more missions with the same re-shuffled rooms and models.

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  10. I don't think there's a link to thedarkmod.com on forums.thedarkmod.com ...

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      Reluctance to improve the forums is matched by reluctance to allow more people to work on it. Talk about trust and power.

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  11. The final solution for low-end GPUs:

    r_skibSubviews 1
    
    r_skipInteractions 1
    
    r_shadows 0
    
    r_ambientMinLevel 0.6

    tdm_lg_interleave  0

    If you don't get 60 fps after this then either your CPU is really slow or it's a map bug

    EDIT. tdm_lg_interleave is probably not required since r_skibSubviews supersedes it.

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      Yes, back then i did extra effort to force all gui in native resolution. Recent fbo refactoring did not unfortunately respect that.

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  12. The final solution for low-end GPUs:

    r_skibSubviews 1
    
    r_skipInteractions 1
    
    r_shadows 0
    
    r_ambientMinLevel 0.6

    tdm_lg_interleave  0

    If you don't get 60 fps after this then either your CPU is really slow or it's a map bug

    EDIT. tdm_lg_interleave is probably not required since r_skibSubviews supersedes it.

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      I'd say the no-interpolation texturing does not add any speed, but if you're looking for T1 software rendering look, then yeah, sure.

      As for low-res thing, while it's obviously affecting performance, it also makes all GUI look terrible in 2.10. I'm targeting native screen resolution.

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  13. The final solution for low-end GPUs:

    r_skibSubviews 1
    
    r_skipInteractions 1
    
    r_shadows 0
    
    r_ambientMinLevel 0.6

    tdm_lg_interleave  0

    If you don't get 60 fps after this then either your CPU is really slow or it's a map bug

    EDIT. tdm_lg_interleave is probably not required since r_skibSubviews supersedes it.

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      The former disables portal sky, mirrors, etc

      The latter disables all lights but ambient

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  14. The final solution for low-end GPUs:

    r_skibSubviews 1
    
    r_skipInteractions 1
    
    r_shadows 0
    
    r_ambientMinLevel 0.6

    tdm_lg_interleave  0

    If you don't get 60 fps after this then either your CPU is really slow or it's a map bug

    EDIT. tdm_lg_interleave is probably not required since r_skibSubviews supersedes it.

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      In my experience, full texture resolution is never really costly, unless you're running out of system RAM. I'm not trying to get the ugliest graphics possible here :)

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  15. I should be able to beta test some missions. Built a new 5700G + GTX 970 system.

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      I have a 2011 6850 and it's still faster than 2021 vega 6

      OTOH the IGP is sharing 20W thermals with the CPU, so I'm saving a coffee on every electricity bill LOL

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  16. I should be able to beta test some missions. Built a new 5700G + GTX 970 system.

  17. I started skateboarding again after a 20 year hiatus. Whish me luck I don't break anything. 😄

  18. CPU benchmark time - compiling DarkRadiant (2nd run)

    i5 8600K 6C/6T@4.4GHz DDR4 2x2133MHz 9MB cache

    • Parallel builds: 1. 3:57
    • Parallel builds: 6 (default). 2:28

    r5 1600AF 6C/12T@3.3GHz DDR4 1x2666MHz 16 MB cache, temp folder on HDD

    • Parallel builds: 1. 5:05
    • Parallel builds: 4. 2:47
    • Parallel builds: 6. 2:55
    • Parallel builds: 12 (default). 2:57
    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      My ram is mixed xmp and non-xmp and tends to hang the pc on high speeds

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  19. CPU benchmark time - compiling DarkRadiant (2nd run)

    i5 8600K 6C/6T@4.4GHz DDR4 2x2133MHz 9MB cache

    • Parallel builds: 1. 3:57
    • Parallel builds: 6 (default). 2:28

    r5 1600AF 6C/12T@3.3GHz DDR4 1x2666MHz 16 MB cache, temp folder on HDD

    • Parallel builds: 1. 5:05
    • Parallel builds: 4. 2:47
    • Parallel builds: 6. 2:55
    • Parallel builds: 12 (default). 2:57
  20. Time to prank Duzenko. Let's see if we can sneak GL_POLYGON_SMOOTH into the renderer somewhere...

  21. I need a new voice actor for my thief. Is there somebody out there who can point me to someone or could handle the job himself?

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      You could always voice your main character yourself?

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  22. New laptop. So long, Intel. No more head bumping.

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      I can see a lot of powerpoint slides but nothing convincing

      IMHO Intel is moving in the wrong direction. They have Iris 655 but you can only find it in Macbooks. They should have pushed it to major laptop producers so that there was a $600 laptop with it. Then, I want to be able to switch between TDP levels, at least when plugged in. And of course 128MB edram is NOT enough.

      AMD is even worse with their IGPs ATM.

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  23. Consider buying a new (used) laptop. It has about the same horsepower as mine, but better screen and battery. (and more expensive as well). Makes sense or it's just consumer rabies?

    1. duzenko

      duzenko

      I ended up buying a new (possibly refurbished) on black market. Bigger battery and more horsepower, roughly the same price.

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