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  1. Thanks Biker, I already added it to my notes, this will be written huge block letters ;) To illustrate it better:

     

    This is what you typically do before export. Notice the actual pivot (big arrows) aligned with the move gizmo in 3dsmax. This is what you should not be doing, even though you do that for all other game engines:

     

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    If you export your mesh and load your map, the lightning will look like this:

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    Don't mind the mesh distortion, I added it to see whether subdivisions help anything (they make it even worse). There are two lights here, btw. and it looks like there are many more. And see this weird stuff at the top?

     

     

    Now, this is mesh with a pivot that didn't have any rotation/scene alignment. As you can see, axes are not aligned. And for idtech4 this is alright. In other game engines this piece would be imported horizontally.

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    And finally, everything is works as it should. The disaster has been averted ;)

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  2. After several hours wasted, I finally found the source of the problem. Typically before exporting, you adjust mesh pivot for proper snapping, and you Align the pivot to the world (i.e. to current scene in 3smax), so the mesh isn't e.g. turned on one of the sides after importing it in game engine. YOU MUSN'T DO THIS IN DARKMOD. Looks like the initial rotation of the pivot is used by the idtech4 as a reference to calculate specularity and cubemaps for the polygons. When you align it to your scene in 3dsmax, you'll mess it up. You can still move the pivot, just don't rotate it. This is for ASE files btw., not sure how it works with LWO.

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  3. Also, it's not that today's economy is only about giving customers what they want. Otherwise companies wouldn't rely on psychology of addiction and its studies to make consumers "love" brands from the earliest age possible, so any purchase is as emotional as possible. Food industry pours tons of sugar, fats, and salt to everything they make, to get "optimal ratio" of those ingredients for every kind of food, because that makes your brain scream with delight with every bite or sip. The general idea is to make children consumers and decision makers as early as possible, and to make adults as childish and irresponsible in their spendings. This has been going on since 1950s-60s. Our brains are simply not ready for that kind of addictive properties of, well, everything. There are corporate R&D departments and science teams basically making people's lives more difficult or miserable like that, just because their boss needs to see 10-30% YTY growth in his Excel spreadsheet.

  4. I just had a few hours this month for editing, so I probably won't be able to solve this right away, but is it just me or IDTech4 doesn't like using overlapping UVs? The lightning looks pretty weird and the material looks metallic, even with proper specular. I'm guessing that's what's causing problems and those IES-like lights. After I fix this, I'm planning to write quick guide on how to design a basic flexible tileset for this wall panel. This is one texture and one mesh by the way, just split in sections and variants, to cover as many uses as possible. All with properly placed pivots, so you can place it in seconds. This was made with grid of 16.

     

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  5. When I'll be changing mobo, I'll definitely take 8 or 12-core Xeon. I wouldn't mind that 14-core model, but it's ridiculously expensive. 4 core CPU with HT is enough for games now, but MR Render to texture function still uses CPU and that's like 20 mins per 2048 texture. xNormal is amazing for it's GPU use, but I have much better control over what I do in modelling software. Good thing MR was bought out by Nvidia and they're making steady progress with swithcing more and more tasks to GPU.

  6. Only get Dishonored 2 if you have a decent gaming rig, with recommended specs or higher. Dishonored 1 runs fine even on older laptops. And Jim is right, get the GOTY edition, as DLC is even more focused and has better story than the campaign. Both instalments indeed use systemic design and immersive sim approach, but the stealth isn't main focus. Playing as chaotic psychopath is equally, if not more rewarding. There's a bit more balance towards that in Dis 2.

  7. Free will doesn't matter that much in Christianity, not in its ultimate goal. Christianity became so popular, because with New Testament it was a religion of love and your personal relationship with god, who seemed actively interested in saving you. That was vastly different from Greek perspective, where gods were vengeful, often fought each other, and were often very cruel to humans.

     

    But the ultimate goal of Christianity is afterlife, and in this aspect Christianity is not that great. You have a god above who will judge you and decide your fate in the end. Sure, you have a set of guidelines, but even if you follow them carefully every day of your life, there's no guarantee that you'll end up in heaven. That's up to him to decide. Maybe you've misinterpreted the book, or didn't get the meaning of your role on Earth at all – if that's the case, sorry, gate's closed. Hell/purgatory's this way. That somewhat tragic aspect of Christianity seems to be "less advertised" or ignored (indulgences, church fairs), that might also explain popularity of this religion.

     

    The main focus is on a consolation in our miserable lives, and love, on a very personal (god – me) level. That helped slaves survive the time of adversity and made them feel more like persons, not objects used to perform hard work, like the whole world around wanted them to believe.

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  8. Also, in a lot of those cases terrorists were not immigrants per se, but born in the country their parents went to; learned the language, got the education etc. It was more like a period of fascination with their religion, but gone wrong, often with outside influence too.

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  9. I don't get how you include both of these camps in terms of opposition, or a threat, but terrorist attacks will happen from time to time, regardless of religion or backround. It's more about media coverage and visibility, and things like internet access. Whether it's a random psycho, IRA, or some other desperate immigrant, the thing is not to let our lazy brains attribute that to a whole nation or religion.

  10. The idea is why justify one group of sexual preferences over another?

     

     

    Because it's easier to extend the idea of a couple, from heterosexual couples only, to other combinations, than embrace polygamy, in a Christian or post-Christian culture. Is that really not so obvious or hard to grasp?

  11. Do LGBT couples have any ground or safle conditions to speak up about their rights in Islamic or African countries? Obviously, was talking about Europe/Americas, as talking about everything simultaneously and mixing everything up won't lead us to any conclusion about anything ever.

  12. I think comparing polygamy to LGBT couples rights is somewhat ridiculous. The former was, at least in western culture, a dream of 70s flower-power era, fuelled by LSD, weed, and rage against the oppressive state. LGBT couples wanting to have families and children, and not being able to, is a sad, long-term reality.

  13. Unfortunately, at least in my country there's still a lot of fear in conservative politicians and especially among the clergy (numerous cases of pedophilia among their ranks somehow bother them less), and they're viewing homosexuality as a disease.

  14. Also, adoption rights for LGBT community aren't a bad thing, gay couples are doing well enough financially that there's been a "prosperous middle-class gay" stereotype in western pop-culture for years now. This is while good catholic couples leave their newborns in hospitals, orphanages, or street dumpsters.

  15. I know you'll hate me again, but all I can think of looking at this video is "what the hell is wrong with these wall planes". Maybe that's something wrong with Maya exporting tools, but having these 2 sections going through upper wall polygon and extending to the lower one is a clear sign something is messed up.

  16. It's not only a matter of taste, it's also genetic, as Destined wrote. I can think of at least 2 examples in my circles, where my friend from university and other colleague from work are lesbians, along with their sisters. And they always were. It was not a fad or phase, or anything like that.

  17. It just doesn't lead to a natural conception and birth of a child, but try to say to someone, who genuinely falls in love and is happy with people of the same sex, or does feel comfortable and happy in the body of the sex opposite to his "birth sex", that his or her way is not natural or unimportant.

  18. Whoa, I wouldn't get that far, saying saying that LGBT problems aren't problems. They are, but it's kind of hard, trying to discuss both types of problems: those at the time of war and those at the time of peace. War problems will always seem more urgent and important in that context.

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  19. The thing is, there's no such balance, and probably never were. I always thought, viewing the world through my municipal way of life and university education, that my country is a like 50 years backwards, but that's mostly because of the wars and the communist occupation period. And generally, I thought we were going in the right direction, just waay too slow for me, having seen how polite and citizen-friendly the government can be in the west (my country is still more like a predatory state). Well, that was just the surface.

     

    Since the far-right won the election, they began dismantling every fundamental democratic mechanism that isn't working in their favor, thinking that state = them and their party only (just like one and only communist party). Apparently, there's no defense mechanism against that, so they were successful. The constitution and constitutional tribunal are basically not legitimate, voted on/elected in the middle of the night, violating basic democratic rules – who does such shit in a civilized country, in 21st century? That encouraged other radical movements, like neo-nazis, to vent their frustrations and display their "power" publicly. I was shocked how many people actually surfaced with such conservative, xenophobic views. More and more people started to wear t-shirts and hoodies with national symbols from the WWII and slogans like "death to the enemies of the state" (what fucking enemies Poland has in 21st century??). There are more and more incidents with foreigners being assaulted, or even people just speaking foreign languages. Like there was this case of a Polish professor, who was punched in the face just because he was speaking German, while talking to his colleague in a tram. There's this substantial group of infantile patriots, who think Poland will be a power if it gets rid of all the foreigners. Those "patriots" clearly played truant during history lessons in primary school, otherwise they'd know that the two significant periods in history, when this country was actually a power to recon with, was in the Reformation Period, and Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Both times of great tolerance towards other countries, and religions, with booming economy. Still, there are whole cities, especially along the eastern border, where neo-nazis seem to be very influential, with ties to lawyers, business execs, etc. Even in my city, which is in the central-western area, there were a few "legally conducted" neo-nazi marches. Fortunately, there were like 30 people at best, but you could hear their anger and frustration, that was both ridiculous and terrifying experience. That's the other extreme you speak of in my country now, and I'm not sure we've learned anything as a nation, not from history books.

     

    I see similar things happening in UK and US now too, so this is kind of failure of education, on a generational level now. Older people tend to get more radical with age too, those forces combined can be very dangerous, as we see now.

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