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  1. Worked out how to get the DR documentation online using GitLab Pages. It's pretty incomplete at the moment, but thanks to GitLab CI, every push automatically updates the website. http://orbweaver.gitlab.io/DarkRadiant/

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    2. OrbWeaver

      OrbWeaver

      The information was probably "out there" but scattered around various forum threads, Wiki tutorials etc. The aim with an official user guide is to bring all that information together into a single place, structured logically and (eventually) covering ALL features of the application.

    3. RPGista

      RPGista

      Thats pretty amazing man. Great work been done here...

    4. fllood

      fllood

      Excellent work Orb! Appreciated. Keep up the good work...

  2. Does anyone actually use the Normalise button in the Surface inspector? Even after looking at the code I'm not quite sure what it's for.

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    2. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      OK, looks like the button is supposed to evenly spread the pixel density of the texture across the selected surface tris so that the UV range is from 0 to 1.  https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-3FDE8873-2169-412F-9A07-26F44E52C5DD

    3. OrbWeaver

      OrbWeaver

      That's what I'd normally understand by "normalise", but that's not what the button does (you can achieve that effect using the Fit button with values of 1.0 and 1.0). It seems that Normalise is designed to take an extreme offset like 250% and reduce it to a corresponding smaller value like 50% without changing the visual appearance. But I'm not sure when you'd need to do that or how you would end up with such an extreme offset in the first place (the Surface Inspector wraps the offset value if you move past one texture width).

    4. thebigh

      thebigh

      I've never understood what it's for either. Are there people in the D3 community who'd know that you can ask?

  3. Impressed to see that TDM works well on the open-source radeon driver in Linux. A little bit stuttery and I only tried the training mission, but still.

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    2. OrbWeaver

      OrbWeaver

      Sapphire R9 290 from 2014 or thereabouts. I woudn't touch nVidia on Linux for the same reason as kano. I want to support vendors who support open source.

    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      a R290's not to shabby, hope it has a custom cooler on it though, as they get a bit toasty.

    4. OrbWeaver

      OrbWeaver

      Yeah it's got three big fans, not the horrible whiny single fan that some stock cards have. It makes a pleasant whooshing sound when heavily loaded.

  4. I like the new frob highlight but it would nice if it was less "flickery" while moving over objects (especially barred metal doors).

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    2. OrbWeaver

      OrbWeaver

      New for me, but I don't think it's that new in development terms. I just haven't updated my SVN for a while.

    3. datiswous

      datiswous

      Do you mean the frob outline?

       

    4. OrbWeaver

      OrbWeaver

      Yes, the white outline which appears around the frobbed object.

  5. I like house-cleaning and taking out the trash.

    1. JackFarmer

      JackFarmer

      Inspired by your post, I have spent the past two hours cleaning all rooms in the first and second floor with both my regular and my Vorwerk wet vac! Thanks for the motivation, I was about to postpone it today once again!

    2. Epifire

      Epifire

      Virtual or otherwise, it makes for a feel-good moment. 😉

    3. datiswous

      datiswous

      ... Ah I get it now

  6. I never realised there was a Dark Mod Twitter account. Perhaps it was banned and waiting for Elon Musk to unban it.

    1. thebigh

      thebigh

      It was dormant for a very long time. Earlier this year I took it over and basically use it to announce new maps when they're released, and celebrate old ones on their birthdays.

    2. datiswous

      datiswous

      I wondered if (some of these) posts should go on the News page . Curently you usually only see a post when there is a new release (so once a year)..

    3. JackFarmer

      JackFarmer

      @OrbWeaver

      Apparently unbanning was not the only thing, there was seemingly also some sort of unblocking: Several users on Mastodon have reported that Musk, whom they blocked on Twitter in the past, suddenly became unblocked on their Twitter accounts...

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