OrbWeaver
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I liked the door opening method in Raven Shield, where you would use the mouse wheel to carefully ease a door open or closed.
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Have you ever thought of implementing it as a fragment shader? They should be fast enough to do a quick test. But I'm still thinking of a way to do it.
A fragment shader is totally useless for this, as it is a function performed by the graphics card at the very final stage of rendering. There is no way of getting information back from a shader into the game, and even if there were the shaders are so limited in scope that they would not be suitable for this anyway.
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One has to be wary of increasing the realism to such a point that the game no longer becomes fun to play. In reality, remaining unseen in anything greater than total darkness is exceptionally difficult, but a game that was this difficult would be more frustrating than enjoyable.
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No, this has been about the things that have already been designated illegal and/or immoral that are casued by alcohol use.
I'm not trying to add to or subtract from the list of immoral or illegal activites, simply pointing out that removal of alcohol would significantly reduce them, and with nothing to lose, since alcohol has no legitimate purpose anyway.
IT would be a win-win situation.
OK, I thought you were suggesting that alcohol should be made illegal. If you are referring exclusively to changing public attitudes then I agree that this would be a bloody good idea, particularly in the UK where the amount you drink is as much a status symbol as anything else.
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This whole argument has been about what should and should not be illegal, hence philosophical discussions of morality are both inevitable and relevant.
If you only want to discuss what is and is not illegal, you can just read the statutes or ask a lawyer.
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C++ is not a good language for learning the fundamentals of programming. It is complex and full of nasty things that are important in high-performance applications but not helpful in learning how to design programs.
At uni we started with ML and then moved onto Java for object-oriented stuff. Personally I think Python is an excellent language for education as it is as simple to understand as Basic but with all the power of more advanced languages like Java.
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Not all parents care for their children either.
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Well, what pisses me off, men like it when a woman wears outrageous clothes. I don't care why they like it from the normal side, but personaly, they should dissaprove of that.
It depends on the environment. What is appropriate for a night club is not necessarily appropriate for the office, and I certainly don't want to be distracted when I'm trying to work. Similarly I get annoyed when I see 8-9 year-old girls wearing skimpy outfits in public - especially when the mothers of those children are probably busy saying how much they are frightened of paedophiles.
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Make drink driving an offence equivalent to attempeted murder. so if someone gets pulled over and they are over the limit (which should be set to zero), they are automatically charged with attempted murder and locked away for 10 years or so. The prisons will fill up rpetty quickly at first, but people will get the hint that driving under the influence in socially unnaceptable.
That sounds initially appealing, but it is very dangerous. The problem is that if you make the punishment for an offence equivalent to murder, then there is no rational reason for a person caught committing that offence not to murder in order to avoid conviction.
For example, some people may consider rape to be such a heinous crime that it should be punished with life imprisonment. However, if you do this, what will happen is that rapists will simply kill their victims after raping them in order to remove the witness - and they will be no worse off for it because the punishment is the same in both cases.
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Don't men who like it when women wear outrageous clothes go into that bastard-goat category?
So why do the women wear such clothes? Because they're comfortable, or provide better insulation against cold? I don't think so.
Women who wear these clothes have just as much responsibility for the "objectification of women" as the men who look at them. People who act like objects can expect to get treated like objects.
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Why is individual freedom of choice automatically a good thing, and a better situation that having decisions mde by society as a whole, for the benefit of society as a whole?
Individual choice is what makes life worth living. I see very little point in being alive if you are just a servant to some higher authority that you did not choose and does not speak for you.
Also, who is "society as a whole"? There is no group of people that can be said to speak for everybody - even elected governments are not necessarily representative and have their own agendas. When you talk about "society" making decisions, in reality this is just a certain group of powerful individuals making their own decisions which other people have to adhere to.
The interesting thing is that people who hold the view that the "will of society" should overrule individual choice, only hold this view as long as "society" holds the same views they do. What if society decided that it would be better served if people did not waste their time making 3D models and cooking, and instead should be made to go out and do charity work (which is clearly a greater net benefit to society)?
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NO, you CAN'T have that.
That is a totally hypocritical position.
On the one hand, you want everyone to have the free choice to take as much drugs as they want and as often as they want, but at the same time you don't actually want everyone to exercise that choice.
I'm sure you've heard the saying "your right to swing your fist ends at my face".
I respect people's right to do what they want in the privacy of their own home, as long as it is not directly harming other people. If they want to get stoned and collapse on their own sofa that's fine by me - if they try to drive while under the influence or get drunk and attack people in the street then they should be stopped. The law should take effect at the point where other people's rights are violated, and not before (this applies to everything, not just drugs).
It is not hypocritical, merely balanced (or perhaps excessively liberal depending on your viewpoint).
IF they did, then society would collapse as everyone ran around high on drugs or alcohol the whole time.If you want to live in a society where everyone has free choice to take drugs, then to have to accept the possiblty that most poeple will choose to do so.
Are you assuming that the only reason people don't take drugs is because it's illegal, and if it was de-criminalised everybody would do it? This seems rather unlikely to me, particularly since most people have no objection with copying CDs for their friends or watching DVDs on Linux, both of which are also illegal.
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I would tend to agree that drugs are a bad thing, but I don't agree that they should be prohibited. People need to be held responsible for their own choices, not protected by some arbitrarily-selected "common good" legislation which has a dangerous tendency to slip towards moral fascism (blasphemy laws, anyone?).
However, I do believe people whose health problems are directly caused by drugs should be given a lower priority in the health service - why should genuinely sick people have to compete for attention in hospital with some idiot student having his stomach pumped?
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Hell, Americans speak English but they still don't get a lot of British humour.
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There are far better disinfectants availabe than alcohol, and anyway, we're talking about alcohol as a drug, not as a cleaning agent.
Alcohol is still used as a disinfectant in some circumstances. It is very cheap but also non-toxic, which makes it good for the sort of disinfectant you want in a first aid kit for cuts and scrapes, rather than the type you use to clean the bath. You can even use "drink" in an emergency, if you cut yourself and have only a bottle of brandy to hand.
[OT: strange that my post disappeared from the forum, even after it was quoted in a reply]
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Doom 3 should make it easier to avoid this problem though, with its Walk IK system etc. Certainly the ticks/trites were very believable, especially when compared with the spiders in T1/T2 which were not much better than the T3 cats in animation terms.
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Do men who don't think about hotness when the see a woman exist?
Beauty is in fact not much more than the number (1 + sqrt(5))/2 applied in various different ways to the human form (called the "golden mean"), plus a heavy dose of physical symmetry.
It signifies youth and health, which are important qualities in choosing a mate since they increase the possibility of the offspring surviving. In short, men who did not like beauty would have been naturally selected out of the species a long time ago.
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DDS works well for a lot of things, but for certain images it produces very nasty artifacts, particularly if you have diagonal lines or smooth gradients in the texture. With normal maps this can be particularly obvious, which is why Doom 3 in High Quality compresses diffusemaps but not normalmaps.
You can see what a DDS-only game looks like if you play TDS - all of the textures are DXT1 and some of them look ghastly, particularly when light hits them at a sharp angle.
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I think Dark Mod is making much better use of DooM 3 Engine than all Source projects combined! No one will change the engine!
The Dark Mod could not use Source even if it wanted to, since Source does not offer a proper dynamic lighting model for thief-like games.
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If you precreate the DDS files, do you still need the TGAs? Perhaps a "low bandwidth" version could be made with just DDS, rather than going TGA -> JPG -> TGA -> DDS which as Fingernail points out will look atrocious.
If this isn't an option, how about a downscaled version with textures 256x256 and lower?
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Hate such leather.
I don't think it is leather. It looks more like PVC or similar.
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It is the same in my company - the department that produces software actually "licenses" its software internally for other accounts to use, at considerable cost. This never makes sense to me since "licensing" is just granting somebody a defense against what would normally be copyright infringement, and a company cannot infringe its own copyright.
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I always find it ironic that Sony gets severely uptight about copyright infringment, yet they make CD/DVD burners and numerous bits of software and hardware that facilitate ilegal duplication of their CDs... It's like they are trying to have their cake and eat it too by putting a foot in each camp.
It is more than likely that there is absolutely no communication or coordination between Sony BMG and Sony Electronics (or whatever it's called). If you think how disorganised even a single large company can be, this is nothing compared to two essentially separate companies that are linked only by name and overall ownership.
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Normally I despise music on web pages, but that one impressed me. Downloading the demo now.
Although I'm slightly put off by this from Amazon: "Frequent interludes of rapid button pressing simulate physical exertion as your character escapes a looming threat you can see catching up with you.". That sounds like the godawful attempt at "simulating physical exertion" that certain Commodore 64 games used to use by "waggling" the joystick from side to side.