kano
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Masterful architecture. It isn't just a bunch of square rooms, but rather an intricately detailed arena.
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lol I was thinking he could publish the mission he's been working on over at TTLG. guess that idea got shot down pretty darn quick. Dunno if the TDM crew would still host it provided it adheres to the rules.
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Presumably he could still send in the mission that he is working on if he feels like it. I know all of us players would enjoy it; his maps were some of my favorites. But I don't know how he feels at the moment; Maybe he's angry, maybe he's putting the TDM project behind him completely, or maybe he feels like just taking a break. I kind of doubt he would abandon TDM/Thief completely, because as far as I know he has been into it since the early 2000s, making missions for T2. Time will tell, I guess.
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Yeah sorry, I don't mean to attack the guy; he's given us lots of great missions like Alberic's Curse and St. Alban's Cathedral, as well as helped others improve their maps and taught them how, but it was just a realization that not every change to a mission is for the better.
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I too get better performance from stencil, but shadow maps look cooler. This particular machine has a GTX770 4GB in it.
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One change to a third party mission that he made and I personally dislike is the ambient track on A Night to Remember. The original track selected by FieldMedic was better; it was much less repetitive. It had more depth and was creepier. It fit the setting perfectly. The track the new version has isn't something you want to listen to for five+ minutes straight. The new track is suitable for brief listening, like exploring bedrooms or something. But it doesn't jive nearly as well when exploring a creepy house.
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Some thoughts on shadow maps: I like them. But setting softshadowsradious to a higher value than 1 will cause some problems, namely with small objects like cups and bowls. One workaround I found to eliminate this is to set softshadowsquality to 1 and then lower the shadowmapsize from the default of 1024 to 512. This is a cheap way of getting softer shadows that at the same time will increase performance.
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Opus is a new (open) audio codec with shockingly good sound quality at low bitrates. Speech is pretty much transparent at 32kbps. Would it be worth converting the vocals and sounds in TDM to Opus to reduce the size of the game, saving some bandwidth and disk space? This should only be considered if you still have the initial uncompressed sounds around, as converting one lossy format to another is generally a bad idea, since you now have two generation losses in quality.
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I thought that was how the forums worked; if you get banned, all your posts get deleted too. In my previous life I asked Springheel to ban me because I wanted a new identity and I wanted to delete all my posts. But I guess it doesn't really work that way, my bad.
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If the team doesn't do it, he might demand it. Like Eric Cartman said on South Park, "screw you guys, I'm goin' home!" I don't think Bikerdude would do that though; demand that they be pulled I mean. It would just hurt the fans of the mod and not actually accomplish anything. But some people do/will react this way out of anger if you exile them from a project, be it for justified reasons or not.
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daaaaaaaamn, it runs! Somehow I expected better FPS than that, though not by much. But this is an older Pi generation. I mean, the first Xbox was somehow made to run Doom 3, and they say the Pi's GPU is on that level or slitly better, so surely it can pump out more FPS than this?
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So, all the posts he made to the forums have been nuked. Will his missions be nuked from the archives as well? (If TDM was a modern mainstream game and you decided to nuke his missions, they would also be deleted from my HDD automatically, but thankfully that can't happen!)
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Really sad to see this community starting to tear itself apart. Also impressed that you managed to produce such a quality game without it happening in the process! That said, I for one really like Bikerdude. My experience with him is that he's nothing but a friendly and helpful guy. It would be cool if you could post some of this internal drama publicly, so that more of us could read what has been going on and decide for ourselves how we really feel about stuff like this. Unless he's, like, actively sabotaging the project or doing nothing but causing trouble, a ban is pretty extreme IMO.
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https://www.blendernation.com/2018/11/26/manuelbastionilab-character-editor-shuts-down/ Sad news, but open source products never die. They just go on hiatus for a wile until someone else feels like picking them up, giving them a new name, and continuing to work on them.
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Here we see an example of powerful people doing whatever it takes (with impunity) to get their way. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/11/fake-americans-dominated-the-net-neutrality-debate.html?gtm=bottom>m=bottom
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https://www.ghacks.net/2018/12/12/windows-10-activity-may-be-recorded-even-if-you-disable-it/ This thing really reminds me of the stereotypical creepy uncle who just won't accept "no" for an answer. I can't bring myself to inflict it on users. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/13/windows_10_carry_on_slurping/
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Old fx6300 running at 4.3GHz takes 5 minutes to compress 26000 small files into 1. New Ryzen 1700 at 3.6GHz on all cores takes 2 minutes and 9 seconds to do the same thing. This machine stomps that old one into the ground...
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Ryzen 3000 series is going to curbstomp everything with mainstream 12 and 16-core chips: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18055-2016-cpugpu-news/page-13#entry430695
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Yeah looks like I made the right choice in picking sides for once. And for those wondering, the data set is my collection of Doom/Duke3d/Blood/other 2.5d game levels. There are more than I can ever play, about 4.3GB (uncompressed) of them. They fit into a 1.2GB squashfs image.
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I too am frustrated by the crusade to fix stuff that wasn't broken. I mean, sure, the UI pre-2.5 was a nightmare as a newcomer, but after that it was good and easy to pick up. With 2.8 they changed all kinds of basic shortcuts like fly mode. At least there is an option to use an old interface.
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https://imgur.com/a/fSsCnEE#S0cEGEr
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Top quality level. Love the canyon with the tunnels.
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We're seeing 1TB SSD's coming in at $120 now. The hard drive manufacturers must be starting to sweat. Reports are that costs of flash will fall even more next year. I hope the hard drive manufacturers get thrashed by cheap SSDs, for not decreasing the price of 2-3TB drives much at all in the past four years.
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@Bikerdude, the performance metric that makes SSDs great is random I/O. It's unfortunate that sustained writes would drop off a cliff, but not the end of the world.
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@Jaxa, yeah that was my primary reason for getting one. On the Sustained reads/writes - I had to reimaged my PC last night so coped my games folder (200gb) to my Crucial P1 1TB, and sure enough 75% of the way through the write speed dropped off a cliff, 400-500mb/a down to 95mbs (that speed I think is only slightly faster than my old WD mechanical HDD.
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Can't knock the read speed though - got decent chipset and RAM, then you're always first in the game and get pick of the roles in Red Orchestra 2.
It's nice to push the on button and have windows boot up before you've had a chance to sit down and take a sip of tea.
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Updated my Uefi the other day and suspend to RAM finally works correctly! It took more than a literal year to be fixed. But I suppose I should be happy it got fixed at all.
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The machine I gave her is an old AM3 system, so that bug will never be fixed. But thankfully it is triggered by a USB device that she doesn't need anymore anyway.
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UEFI is a blight on the computer landscape, due to how inherently insecure it is - but we cant do much about it now. And regarding ASrock, I will only consider buying from them when they start offering 3yr warranties.
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And lastly, rule of thumb, only have kb/mice plugged into any USB ports if you can help it.
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Ideally entities could have two names, a user facing name, and a name that the game uses to keep track of things. For example the old torch is still called torch_01 so that it doesn't break existing FMs that use it, but the user friendly name gets changed to "torch_01_deprecated" when a higher quality version of torch_01 is implemented into the mod, so that someone building a map today will see this and use "torch_01_modern" instead of "torch_01_deprecated". The idea here is that nobody needs to sit there and painstakingly change the name of everything, because initially the user friendly name is just a duplicate of the name used by the game, until the asset is updated. Then the user friendly name of the old asset is changed, to mark that it is outdated without breaking anything,.
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Anyone else get a major Thief vibe from the photo on the top of this article? https://www.howtogeek.com/394427/what-is-a-dark-web-scan-and-should-you-use-one/
