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  3. Linux sucks

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    I think folk sometimes forget how frequently stuff in Windows doesn't work for lots of people. You know - oh my computer has gone slow, oh I can't get my printer to work etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.

     

    Computers are complex, openly modular, legacy devices. I'm not saying things can't or shouldn't be better - but I certainly don't think Linux is a worse experience compared to Windows. And if you absolutely must have a faultless consumer friendly experience, get an ipad.

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  19. Any Artists Out There?

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    Actually, I'm wondering what the intention was too. Not in a judgemental way, just wondering. Looks more like it was supposed to be a glamour shot. Slightly homoerotic perhaps. Portrait of older brother maybe? But yeah, I am slightly confused by it. What is going on there?

     

    Anyone who makes pictures is awesome in my book.

  20. "One Year Later, Open-Source Doom 3 Is Moving Slowly"

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    You did indeed. I'm just not I'm as confident as you are that 'variations' of a patent counts for squat. It's not as though the patent is for specific code that you could rewrite or tweak. I fear you'd need a fundamentally different approach to calculating TDM's shadow volume geometry to avoid the patent's evil gaze.

  22. "One Year Later, Open-Source Doom 3 Is Moving Slowly"

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    It might be a problem if there were a patent on that.

     

    BFG has real time shadows aplenty, just not from the flash-light. If there aren't fresh spanners in the works and if they are indeed things that BFG addresses then freedom from potential law suits and a shader implementation that's usable might make BFG a viable choice for new projects, if not TDM, in a way the original OS Tech 4 release hasn't been.

  23. "One Year Later, Open-Source Doom 3 Is Moving Slowly"

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    That. The OS engine's real time shadow code ~ already a major bottleneck ~ has to compute 3 times as many polygons to achieve the same results as the original version. The other major issue is that the Tech 4 shader implementation predates common shader languages and is beyond mortal understanding and thus a barrier for hobbyists and OS projects.

     

    At least that's what I heard from someone who seemed sensible at the time.

     

    No idea how things will shake out for TDM becuase I'm guessing we're already wedded to the old forward renderer - but for any new projects the OS BFG engine might (assuming those are issues it addresses) become a viable choice in a way that OS Tech 4 wasn't.

  25. New Website images

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    Jay suggests a screenshot competition - mayhaps over at the TTLG FM fora where there are actually more than 6 people. Or at RPS or Sneaky Bastards.

     

    Jay also suggests that technical details matter much less than how awesome the screenshot looks - which has far more to do with colour, contrast, composition and such. The minimum technical bar should be pretty low I reckon. Someone who does a lot of screenies for Thief/TDM might be able to put a little primer on how to tweak for darkness etc. I don't do photoshop, but I'd happily do one for GIMP that was woolly enough to be transferable to other graphics packages - though these day's the hip kids probably use web apps for that sort of thing.

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