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  1. Space ambient gone TDM:

    1. Tarhiel

      Tarhiel

      You mean they used those crickets from TDM?

    2. jaxa
  2. 2018: The Dark Times

    1. Anderson

      Anderson

      Let it Be - The Beatles

  3. On the team page, Dram's link is a parked domain. You could change it to a new site, archive.org link, or just remove it.

    1. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      I just checked archive.org and unfortunately the last working version of his site required a flash plugin and wouldn't display correctly.

       

      So I have removed the link for now, if anyone has a new website link for Dram or an archive link that works please PM me and I will update it.

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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      Wouldn't a snap to grid option take care of some of the shakiness inherent in VR control?

       

      And it could be pretty precise if your hand movements are recorded... pretty precisely.

    3. Sotha

      Sotha

      ...And I read it initially that "Google blocks (as in "bans") 3D modelers," and thought what the hell, and then got curious how will they do that. XD

    4. peter_spy
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    2. stumpy

      stumpy

      i guess the platform will be flooded with asset flippers.

    3. stumpy

      stumpy

      Be like a large dark hole to useless content. Like opening a plug somewhere and having all the useless stuff get sucked in.

    4. peter_spy

      peter_spy

      So basically Steam Greenlight for mods :)

  4. Is Bikerdude a myth?

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    2. Bikerdude
    3. grayman

      grayman

      My grandmother would sit me on her knee and tell me tales ...

    4. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      :-D - erm, why dosen't the favicon html codes work in here..?

    1. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      What? The mysterious saviour is back to make our Thief lives happier again after such a long absence? I can't believe it's true! Wow thanks so much!

    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      He's like our own Game of Thones mystery crow that leads us to secret treasures.

    3. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      Or to an old tree with lots of zombies around.. xD

  5. Is it just me or does the TDM Forums favicon look whack?

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    2. SeriousToni

      SeriousToni

      Yes I was annoyed by that, too!

    3. Epifire

      Epifire

      Glad I wasn't the only one noticing that.

    4. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Will drop Taaaki a message.

  6. I tried to get my father to play TDM once, but he was not good at using the mouse+keyboard effectively to control a first-person view. I wonder if Oculus Rift could change that for some players.

    1. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Try a track-ball. They are a little easier for folks with less motor control.

    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      It wasn't a problem with the mouse. He just wasn't using both simultaneously.

    3. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Ah he must be a controler person then, can he play consoles ok..? if so time for a steam controller.

  7. What are the implications of high dynamic range monitors and TDM?

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    2. jaxa

      jaxa

      This is why I mentioned it: http://tinyurl.com/qaf63tc HDR section at bottom of the article

    3. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Wow, 30-bit (10 per channel) floating point color output to displays eh? Still would require some engine revamping for sure (for any engine that intends to use it).

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      You'll notice that 10-bit per channel color has gained popularity as Main 10 profile of H.265 adds it. It was in the High 10 Profile of H.264 and not intended for consumers. 10-bit can lower filesize and it seems to be popular among anime sub groups (early adopters?)

  8. happy god thanks america day

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      Have a bald eagle dispensing lovely, lovely FREEDOM!, people!

    3. Arcturus

      Arcturus

      Look inside America, she's alright, she's alright...

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      "I know I am American, but I dislike them. You don't see American forces down here liberating these people. Do you? Who do you think armed Deidranna?"

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    2. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      If you dig around enough into GPU history, you'll see that there have been various attempts to use system memory as a second tier and VRAM as cache. The latest being "partially resident textures" (AKA DX's version of Megatexture). These ideas would work but would also knock out one of the advantages of a GPU vs a CPU. Thus, after a moment of relapse, GPU vendors are once again trying to stuff as much VRAM on their cards as possible. Lest big bad Intel eat their lunch. Maybe so...

    3. jaxa

      jaxa

      they're adding more VRAM to future proof against 4K and higher resolutions. They'll also be able to pack more VRAM in less space on with high bandwidth memory: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9266/amd-hbm-deep-dive especially HBM2 which is when NVIDIA will throw in.

    4. jaxa

      jaxa

      Should probably make a thread if there's more to say.

  9. http://tinyurl.com/oyxg6js TDM for Oculus Rift when
    1. stumpy

      stumpy

      the 'Oculus Touch' should come with some straps to stop the player from throwing them very far and breaking things. from what it says you need both of them to pick things up and use them.

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    2. Melan

      Melan

      $859,056. Should have gone high enough for the editor, but good enuff.

    3. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      @Melan they will continue crowd funding on their website via paypal and it will count towards their current goals

    4. Goldwell

      Goldwell

      so it might still be achievable in time ;)

  10. DirectX 12 Will Allow Multi-GPU Between GeForce And Radeon: http://tinyurl.com/qjb9m9m

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    2. STiFU

      STiFU

      Xarg, doing CUDA on one card while doing other stuff on another is no problem. No need for DX12 here.

    3. Xarg

      Xarg

      Fair enough, I haven't touched CUDA, nor owned an NVidia GPU since the 8600gt, the only possibility this GPU linking offers me that'd I'd be interested in is the PhysX stuff. Didn't AMD make some alternative version of PhysX for their platform?

    4. STiFU

      STiFU

      I was interested in that as well, so I googled and found this:

      However, much more important is that I also found, that nvidia prevents PhysX-computation if a card from another manufacturer is installed. (Only have a German publication for that)

    1. jaxa
    2. lost_soul

      lost_soul

      2 GB is extremely lame at that price at this point. Even an older 750TI features 2 GB and it is much cheaper than this.

    3. nbohr1more

      nbohr1more

      Oh, I'm sure there are cheaper cards with more RAM but how many cores do they have? This card will smoke a 750ti guaranteed. Chances are, 3rd party cards will have more than 2gb too

    1. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      This is an awesome scientific acheivement and this video is awesome in it presentation!

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