Mortem Desino
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Very nice, someTaff! I'm that you're experimenting with colored light. Some FMs super-saturate color to the point where the colored lights look unnatural or even comical.
Your last picture is brilliant
: Warm orange torch, pale green tree, cool blue moonlight.In your second-to-last pic, note how the orange "pops out" against the blue ambiance It helps with gameplay, too--it's a nice subtle way of informing the player "Hey! There's something worth investigating up here!"
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Not so sure about German and Norsk, but I do know Hebrew:
"Yet 40 more days and Nineveh will be destroyed."
I'm always extremely careful with pitch change. No more than 1/2 step up and no more than 1 step down, or else it starts to sound obviously tampered with to the point of comical.
[edit:] Or how about this line for agitated searching state?
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@simplen00b, I like a few of those pictures (especially the last one: the "In the North" kitchen with two people in "idle" animations), but there's some bad jpg artifacts showing up on them that make them hard to use.
Does anyone know if min.us (like google used to) auto-compresses every jpeg image?
[Edit:] Oh, just a note for AMD card owners, don't forget that ATI catalyst can turn up massive anti-aliasing. My old middle-of-the-road HD4850 1GB goes up to 8x edge-detection for an similar effect as 24x (!).
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This thread of computerized cars has reminded me of a video "The coming war on general computation" that I saw a few months ago (it was probably on this forum, actually.) Where a pretty fine writer Cory Doctorow writes against all the attempts at limiting the functionality of general computers. That's not just an mp3 player, it's a general computer that has been limited to only perform a certain action. That's not a CD, that's a bunch of data files with purposeful corruption to make sure that you can't play it without special proprietary software. And that's not a gaming console, it's a fully functional computer with rootkits, code signing, and spyware right out-of-the-box.
"Can't you just make us a general purpose computer that runs all the programs except the ones that scare and anger us? Can't you just make us an internet that transmits and message over any protocol between two points unless it upsets us?" (26:59) "As a member of the Walkman generation, I have made peace with the fact that I will require a hearing aid long before I die, and of course, it won't be a hearing aid, it will be a computer I put in my body. So when I get into a car -- a computer I put my body into -- with my hearing aid -- a computer I put inside my body -- I want to know that these technologies are not designed to keep secrets from me, and to prevent me from terminating processes on them that work against my interests." (27:07) I think he also makes mention somewhere of the implications of user-modifiable firmware on self-driving cars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc
A heavy emphasis against SOPA/PIPA as well as the America's DMCA, and a connection to general computing that I had never seen before.
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Sounds almost like a job for the community to do...
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There's one thing in particular that I'll back Obama on: I get nervous whenever government officials (read: typical Republican) wants to legislate morality. I get gawked at when I say that I'm a clergy student, yet I oppose anti-abortion laws and I oppose the Defense of Marriage Act. Why? Well, I'd be outraged if someone legislated my lifestyle: that I must visit my local Jain/Hindu temple every weekend, and that I must marry within a certain demographic before reaching a certain age, or other such nonsense, therefore I won't impose my ethics on others.
Funny. I just read George Washington's farewell address. He pretty explicitly urges the Americans to be sure not to get into petty party squabbles.
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Yes, and Farrell needs a bazooka as well as fuzzy bunny slippers on his feet.I would like to have pink elephants in TDM.
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Where do you have Doom 3, and where do you have the darkmod directory?
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There is very very little pitch change you can do before the voice sounds unnatural (something like 1/2 step up or 1 whole step down). The best thing you can do is augment what your voice already can do. When I listen to Thief, the main differences between Stephen Russel's "Garrett" & his "Hammerite" is a little higher pitch, a little more airy, and a little more nasal.
My comfortable range is bass, but I can accentuate it by bringing it 1/2 step lower. I can add some flattering EQ & subtle compression, so my bass voice sounds a little more "bassy".
I can also do a bit of a gravelly voice. To make my voice sound "dirtier", I run a copy of the audio through an amp simulator. Then I mix the two 50/50 or whatever sounds best.
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Depends. What method are you using to complete the objective? A frobbed trigger? Objective type "when readable 'entity' is closed" or "A certain page of a readable 'entity' is reached"?
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That looks pretty darn tasty for only 62 tris. Nicely done.
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I'm trying to close a portal in a long vent to keep sound from the room below from going straight to the player. But there's a long view from the opposite side, so I can't use a func_portal (unless I can figure out how to trigger a fake 'window' to hide the closed visportal).
Don't doors have a spawnarg that controlls sound loss while closed and a different arg while open? I think it's something like "loss_open" and "loss_closed".
But I hear ya. Visportals ought to be easier to control.
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If someone did give the darkmod team more blood decals, we would use material shader name replacements. Every mission that ever used D3 blood splats would automatically use the replacements.However, should someone create almost identical D3 free blood decals which we could use, and they were included in darkmod, I think missions with D3 references could be converted with a simple find&replace script.
That said, could someone please make blood splat decals?
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I do know that certain movers with an explicit "open/closed" value can open and close a visportal. Maybe a brushwork func_mover_door touching the portal will open and close it when triggered.
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Hot sausage!On the subject of SSD ownership, I should mention most strongly that you need to change how you setup and use your PC to minimize the amount of writes to the drive in order to extend its useful operation lifespan.
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Here are some links with above information but with some more option things you can turn off
That's a great collection of advice! I've just got to wait to get the funds for a SSD. Poor poor university student, I am.
That can be a super useful device for rescuing data on dead computers/near-dead HDs. I used to use a USB-to-IDE some years ago, when three students at school simultaneously got the nasty 'Windows Antivirus' virus.I got the 256GB model (MZ-7PC256N) for a £140, it was the cheapest around even though it came with the pointless USB-to-SATA cable
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Oh so true.
I remember when I was young I wanted to create a story where the player get to choose what happens. I made it with C64 BASIC, something like this:
It's slowly becoming the reverse again. There was a mod for minecraft called computercraft -- it puts a virtual *nix-like computer in-game and lets you write little LUA scripts. I tell ya, I built a simple rock-paper-scissors game and a simple billboard sign using print(string), and I got a ton of ooooohs and aaaaahs from servergoers.
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It just so happened that my ancient laptop's fan was easily accessible (and removeable!). To prevent any shortcircuits, at least power down the laptop (and remove the battery etc.) before trying to spray lithium grease or another non-parrafin oil (WD-40 is an electronics no-no) into the fan motor. I doubt you would have to disassemble the fan.
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Mine is a main character from my very first adventure game: Betrayal at Krondor. I remember being in 1st grade, hopping on my Dad's 486 machine with the big stack of diskettes. I tryed to figure out how to install the game and configure the soundblaster card, but had to get my dad (software developer) to help me out. It's a heartwarming memory of an old geek teaching the young geek.
I was in high school when I picked up the game again, loved the writing & dialogue, played through to the end, and drove to a bookstore to find some novels made by the same writer -- Raymond E. Feist. At the time it was fascinating that that old video game was in part developed by a critically acclaimed novelist.
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If it's almost a "squealing" sound, it may be that the bearings are starting to go on a fan. I had an ancient compaq laptop that I rescued from a dumpster -- took it apart and got the fan to stop squealing with a tiny spray of lithium grease (from a car mechanic shop).
If something mechanical is going wrong with the disk, you'd probably notice your computer acting wonky.
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You lucky, lucky, Europeans, you.
For me to see any architecture older than the 1800s, I have to go to the U.S. east coast. 1700s-and-older era buildings are extremely scarce here in colony-ville. -
So I was doing the "random, but linked video thing on youtube" and came across this.. at 1:50 its quiet impressive.
Reminds me of back when I was in a drum corps.
I can appreciate it a lot, but that kind of precision movement really doesn't seem unique to me anymore. -
here is an example picture to your first questions. And I can make you a basic map of your second questions if you like..?
Precisely this. It illuminates the exact same radius that you see in DR, but normals and shadows are cast from light_center instead of from the origin.
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Yep, that's a good example. I was thinking of a more practical place. Supposing a torch hides in a recessed area of a wall. If you don't move the light center out of that hollow, you'll get some just-plain-bad-looking shadows.
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The light center essentially only moves where the shadows (and normals, etc.) come from. Most other entity properties deal with the origin (like particle effects, when to cull the entity behind a visportal, etc).
Quick C++ Question & Language Discussion
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This is far off the train tracks of this thread, but oh dang this is cool!
I love exercising language muscles every once in a while. Lets see what I can deconstruct from just your interlinear here. I'm a little interested to see if my guesses are close to the actual grammar.
Verbs, like you said, look vaguely Hebrew to me, and just as complicated. o_i vowels for present indicative (cf. Qal imperfect), u_e for past indicative (cf. Qal perfect), a_a for other present moods like subjunctive/imperative (at least in what I've seen so far). It looks like you've got a prefix system for identifying verb subject/object. And for mood indicators, you must be using suffixes (cf. Hitpael/Hishtafel's added consonance)? kixkul-pahbaf-nofo = "which they may contain", where the modal "may" is nofo?
Subject and Object seem to have particles attached to them (ma and ca respectively?), a bit like Hebrew does with the אֵת־ direct-object-indicator.
I believe I can identify "e" as a postpositive definite article?
Word order of modifiers (adjective->noun) is the English influence peeking through?